Talk:Snowball fight

Vanity picture?
Hey, i sense a vanity picture. Whatever, I have no interest in deleting it unless someone can find a clearer picture of an actual snowball fight. snowball fights are fun — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:FEA8:A35F:DECE:61F4:5AB4:DCB0:BF2F (talk) 16:44, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Calvin and Hobbes
Mention should be made of time when Calvin saved snowball in freezer until summer with intention of hitting Susie Derkins. --Daniel C. Boyer 19:08, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * No it shouldn't. Plus, iit doesn't work if you have a frost-free freezer.  I tried.  Schoop (talk) 19:17, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Cited in Journal Watch
This entry was cited in Journal Watch 3 January 2008 as an explanation of what they would be doing instead of publishing the 4 January 2008 issue. Nbauman (talk) 02:26, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Is it a game?
Is a snowball fight a game? If so, what more is needed in this article to raise the class from stub to start? --DThomsen8 (talk) 20:58, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

"You don't bring a gun to a snowball fight"
I'm sure the 2009 (New York was it?) undercover policeman who decided to pull out a gun snowball fight is worth a largish mention. (Don't know the best way of adding it myself) --Kurtle (talk) 23:13, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Sprott's 1864 Snowball Fight
Just in case anyone wanted to edit or expand the little section on Samuel H. Sprott's account of a snowball battle in 1864, here is the extract from his journal(originally published in installations as "Our Southern Home" in 1899, more recently compiled and published as "Cush: A Civil War Memoir").

"After we moved to our new quarters we had quite a snow storm and the ground was covered with three or four inches of snow. Strahl’s Brigade was attacked by a brigade of Breckenridge’s Division, with snow balls and they soon called on the other brigades of our division for assistanceand soon the divisions were engages in a fierce battlewith snowballs.

"When we left out quarters each man took his haversack and as we went along they were filled with hard balls of snow, so that when we arrived upon the scene of action we were well supplied with ammunition. It was certainly a novel site to see five or six thousand men engaged in snow balling.  Bob Ferrel of Co. A, of the 40th Alabama in preparing one of his balls, by accident or otherwise, I am inclined to think that it was otherwise, got agood sixed piece of brick mixed up with his snowand when he fired that particular ball at the enemy the result was that one of them fell as if he had been shot.  Bob said when the fellow got up he saw the devil in his eye, and thinking discretion the better part of valor he took to his heels and soon disappeared from the scene of action,  I suppose he acted upon the theory that,

'He who fights and runs away, Lives to fight another day.' "

Sprott was in Stewart's Division at the time of the snowball battle, and they were positioned on the east side of Rockeyface Mountain.

~MFG