"Tangga" is a word in ILOKANO, HILIGAYNON
v. /MAKI-: KA-/ to pitch pennies against. /AG-/ [with pl. subject] to pitch pennies against one another.
tángga - A game played with coins. A pile
of coins is placed on a pebble (called the
tigí). The player using a coin as a missile
(called the máno, manohán or butánhan)
tries to knock the coins away from the tigí,
or the tigí from under the coins, the object
being to leave the "mano, manohán or
butánhan” nearer to the scattered coins
than the tigí. Also verb: to play at tángga.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
tigí - A pebble, piece of wood, or the like, placed under coins in the game of tángga; to put …
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