In the song he wrote as part of the " Alex Turner talks about playing the coconut shy, winning a prize even if it's rigged, and not knowing when to stop
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Coconut shy's were notoriously'rigged'with a short length of string threaded up through the center of the'cup'and tied onto the hollowed out bottom of the coconut shell.
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In the embassy district the principal attractions were the coconut shy of the British embassy and the American pillory around the corner, where the trapped ambassador, James Sasser, was reduced to eating military rations.
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The Tithe Barn hosted the exhibits, which included flowers, vegetables and handcrafts, and there was a number of stalls-including a coconut shy and nine-pin bowling-in the grounds of Stanway House.
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Two traditional games at British fairs are the Coconut Shy where wooden balls a little smaller than a baseball are thrown at coconuts that are set up in acorn-shaped holders on poles, and about 20 feet away.
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On " The Mighty Boosh ", Howard Moon makes a joke to Vince's coconut friend, Precious, about being " coconut shy ", in the episode entitled, " The Nightmare of Milky Joe ".
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Standardised throwing sports typically have high-level competitions across regions and a sports governing body, with the most common and international varieties having a world championship and a funfair and carnival games, with varieties including ring toss and coconut shy games.
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Even the elegant trituration of targets in Serbia, the destruction of bridges, the incapacitation of power stations, however necessary in war, when carried out night after night from the safety of the skies seemed to turn the bombing into a horrible high-tech coconut shy.
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It also plays host to the annual Drumlithie Gala, which is held on the second Saturday of June each year-so June 8, 2013-with raffle stalls, coconut shy, kids & adult races and lots, lots more it's a great day to visit the village.
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The Village Fete, usually held on the second Saturday of June, is a mixture of traditional games ( splat the rat, lucky golf, target soccer, coconut shy, crockery smash ) and the usual stalls ( white elephant, cakes and produce, plants, books, toys ) accompanied by live music, steam engine rides and tea.
