Since my kids are not little anymore I have gotten back into reading books again.  I have always loved reading but had to put that on the back burner while trying to raise my children.

I love reading all kinds of books and pick up the most unusual reading material here and there that keep my nose in at least one or two books at a time.  One of my favorites is one that contains hundreds of pages of savvy and intriguing information compiled for the world’s forgotten literary caste - those who read in the privacy of their privies (known as the bathroom for you city folk)  It is a collection of little-known facts that I find very interesting and would love to share on this blog time to time.

The one today that I read was pretty entertaining and I wanted to share it today.

DWARF TOSSING

A dwarf dresses up in body padding, a crash helmet, and a harness.  Then contestants hurl him across the room into a pile of mattresses.  The “winner” is the person who throws the dwarf the farthest.  In some contests, dwarfs have been thrown as much as 30 feet.  Makes you wonder why the dwarfs do it, they can make as much as $2,000 a night, that’s why.

It seems that this game was invented in an Australia bar back in 1985.  It later produced an offshoot of the game known as dwarf bowling.  A helmeted dwarf is strapped to a skateboard or mechanic’s creeper and rolled headfirst into bowling pins, which are made of plastic.

I remember back in 1987, the year our oldest daughter MC was born, a few American bars tried out this “sport” and it was a commercial success.  But the bad publicity - combined with lobbying by groups like the Little People of America-killed the sport.