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@neilarini said
I no longer have my putting things on top of other things frame that served me so well back then. I'm more likely to drink the glass of beer now! I still dabble though, out of sentimentality.
Have you considered putting things underneath other things? The results could be similar.

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@petewxyz said
Have you considered putting things underneath other things? The results could be similar.
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Putting things underneath things is for kids. My brother used to put things underneath things until he was 14!!! (Loser).

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@neilarini said
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Putting things underneath things is for kids. My brother used to put things underneath things until he was 14!!! (Loser).
I remember when I was in my teens I excelled at flipping piles of beer mats hanging over the side of the table and catching them. I was half tempted to turn pro if the opportunity had arisen. I may well have been a child prodigy, but you had to wait until a certain age to be allowed in the pub so I will never know.

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@petewxyz said
I remember when I was in my teens I excelled at flipping piles of beer mats hanging over the side of the table and catching them. I was half tempted to turn pro if the opportunity had arisen. I may well have been a child prodigy, but you had to wait until a certain age to be allowed in the pub so I will never know.
The late, great Arthur Ramsbottom himself said one is born a putter or a flipper.

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@neilarini said
The late, great Arthur Ramsbottom himself said one is born a putter or a flipper.
That Ramsbottom?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsbottom_Rides_Again

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@ponderable said
That Ramsbottom?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsbottom_Rides_Again
No that was Bill Ramsbottom, Arthur's brother. Now he could put things on top of other things and flip beer mats, but not to a very high standard unfortunately. (They say Bill took after his mother.) He didn't fare too well in Canada either by all accounts.

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if america, was van gogh,
and america cut off it's own ear
can we claim prodigy status
or drown in our own fear?

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Knew a kid at primary school (Peter) who was a prodigy on the trumpet. His house backed on to ours so I was privy to all his practicing. (Not a particularly happy memory).

We did however go on to take 2nd place in a wheelbarrow race, so my memories of him are not all bad.

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i once met a child pierogi
but she then wrote a limerick and was cast into the outer darkness

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@lemondrop said
I thought that GO might produce child prodigies but was unaware
so now there are four fields which have produced child prodigies
music
mathematics
chess
GO
I think you can safely assume tat E-Sport which is dominated by young to very young persons has their child prodigies, too.