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    standardg60
    Registered Users Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭standardg60


    Not sure of the exact spelling, but i'm pretty sure they were called crickets.


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    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    They are called. "Keep off the fecking grass"


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    pauldavis123
    Registered Users Posts: 354 ✭✭pauldavis123


    standardg60 wrote: »
    Not sure of the exact spelling, but i'm pretty sure they were called crickets.

    Don't google lawn crickets :eek:

    :D

    I can't find anything using that search


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    standardg60
    Registered Users Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭standardg60


    Lol neither could i.

    The name is coming from my own ether 25+ years ago.
    Maybe they were invented to keep people off cricket pitches back in the day.


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    pauldavis123
    Registered Users Posts: 354 ✭✭pauldavis123


    I saw one of these the other day and thought to myself that you no longer see them, then this comes up. Now my curiosity has been piqued and I would love to know the history of them!


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