Googling for seaside.games inexplicably leads me to this:
HAGGIS HURLING
A TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH SPORT REVISED
Once a popular sport throughout the country, Haggis hurling will reappear at this year's games after a gap of too many years.
(Here's where I'm wondering exactly what they mean by hurling…)
The ancient Scottish sport of haggis hurling has it's origins in the village of Auchnaclory which is close to the Falls of Dromach in Sutherland. While the men of Auchnaclory worked in the fields, the women would prepare and cook lunch for them. Instead of wading across the cold water, the women would call to their man and then throw or hurl his haggis lunch to him. […]
(Ahh, that makes perfect sense… if you're insane.)
Posted by rv at August 10, 2004 12:03 AM to hmmm