Hopscotch
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Hopscotch is a playground game popular in many countries around the world. Players toss a small object, sometimes called a piggy or lagger, into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined
Primary schoolchildren playing hopscotch in Cuba, where the game is known as pon
Marelle (French) schoolyard court
Hopscotch, by the French painter Théophile Emmanuel Duverger (1821-1898)
A hopscotch game with a traditional magpie rhyme in Morecambe, England
Dark humor
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Dark humor, also known as black comedy, black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, gallows humor or morbid humor is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo
Hopscotch
…or cliff, such that any participant would fall to their death upon completion, is a motif occasionally seen in fiction, sometimes as a device for black comedy. A notable example is featured on the cover of the Korn album Follow the Leader, which focuses on a young girl participating in the game at a cliff…
"Hopscotch to oblivion" in Barcelona, Spain, alluding to suicide
A cemetery with a "Dead End" sign, creating a play on words
An 1825 New York newspaper used a gallows humor "story" of a criminal whose last wish before being beheaded was to go nine-pin bowling, using his own severed head on his final roll, and taking delight in having achieved a strike.