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But in comedy it's like a game of pick-up sticks or something."
"Sure you could, but humans are lousy at pick-up sticks.
I thought the strap would break, and arrows would be all over the floor like pick-up sticks.
"Or you could see segments of light beams, shafts falling to the ground, like pick-up sticks.
He cast them aside and they rattled to a stop by the overturned stool like so many meaningless pick-up sticks.
They finished cleaning up and spent the rest of the evening drinking herbal tea, playing pick-up sticks, and talking by the fire.
The hillside gave a good view of a fire burn where tree trunks lay strewn like a pup's pick-up sticks.
The blue lines faded, leaving only pale yellow ones, crisscrossing the screen like counters in a giant game of pick-up sticks.
And it was true that Torrey, though he had short fingers-and now only nine of them-had a light touch with pick-up sticks.
Haida pick-up sticks exist in two sorts.
Pick-up sticks, pick-a-stick, jackstraws, or spillikins is a game of physical and mental skill.
It's like pick-up sticks or legos or something'.
Most of the logs that lay crisscrossed like pick-up sticks were enormous--much too big for him to handle alone.
Then they piled up the bars in great heaps that looked as casually arranged as tossed pick-up sticks.
Not a breeze stirred in the fields, where the dry stalks of harvested corn and sunflowers lay like scattered pick-up sticks.
"Cardboard and pick-up sticks.
But you'll do very well," he smiled, "-though not at pick-up sticks, unless you find another sick-eyed man to play against."
Add rulers, and the results can evoke a game of pick-up sticks gone wild, or a Pollock drip painting parsed by a mad geometry teacher.
In 1936 it was brought from Hungary to the USA and was mostly called pick-up sticks.
The practice of using sticks in Chien Tung may be related to the game of pick-up sticks played today.
Some Haida First Nation pick-up sticks are plain maple wood; they may also be decorated with abalone shell and copper.
"They're playing a giant game of pick-up sticks, so we have to plan out what thing gets moved next to avoid a secondary collapse," Mr. Sekins said.
And through ignorance or willfulness, their songs use melodies that stop, start and jump around; "Mesopotamia" piles up short, asymmetrical motifs like pick-up sticks.
AGES 9 TO 14 - These children can enjoy team sports and games that demand increased dexterity such as pick-up sticks and marbles.
Another, in which straight lines of red, yellow and blue are isolated within the small squares of a grid, has the plebeian energy of a game of pick-up sticks.