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Game review 90: Coconuts

Who doesn't want to try out a grinning monkey catapult?

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Andrew Brassleay
Mar 10, 2025
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‘Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head,’ once sang Freddy Martin with his Orchestra about some showman’s wares down the English fayre.

So enraptured with this fun-filled situation that having a lovely bunch of coconuts has spiralled down the lexicon through the ages – White Christmas comic legend Danny Kaye picked up the mantle across the Atlant…

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