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[RUB!X]

i said ... the end

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

there are ppl out there that are tenpin pros? Really?

if that can be a pro sport, i'm gunna make me a pro in an obsure sport as well

Dodgeball any1?

 

[Bookie]

Lets all start a curling club.

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

ok Bookie- u can be captain, ill be v.C. we'll find some more members, get this thing going. one day i see curling being the most popular sport in australia

first things first- i'm gonna find out what the fuck curling is

 

[Bookie]

Well, for one, its more of a sport than bowling. People actually walk/run. Plus there is a team who have to work with each other. Then you have the brooms. I bags being the guy who rolls the vacuum cleaner thingy.

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

vacuum cleaner thingy? you can have it. sounds like shit i can get up to at home.

but so is tenpin bowling. knocking shit over at home with the football comes to the same to me.

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ok, i just looked up encarta:

Curling, winter sport in which players slide heavy granite stones down a sheet of ice at a circular target area. As the stone slides, teammates can sweep the ice in its path with brooms or brushes. This warms the ice a little, reducing friction and causing the stone to slide farther and straighter. Curling appears to be a simple game, but to master it players must learn complex strategies.

it also says sweden won last years mens curling World Champs

BoS team to represent Australia in 2006!

 

[Bookie]

We better rep Australia, I dont think there is any Aussie team. Sliding vacuum cleaners [granite stones eh?] and brushing brooms, can't be that hard.

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

i think we should rename this thread the curling thread.

it mite gain more life it were about curling

wait- ah, shit. there is already an australian team

http://www.curling.org.au the team just got caned by the kiwis

...and apparently there is wheelchair curling...

 

[shortygb]

id prefer bowling over curling i cant see how sweeping can be a sport

 

[Bookie]

Wheelchair curling. That is gold.

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

wheelchair curling... beat that tenpin

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

betcha australia dont have a wheelchair curling team. reckon we'd need to be disabled to compete?

 

[Bookie]

I reckon being on a wheelchair on ice would be much easier than skating. But I dont wanna be slack to those who are disabled. It'd be wrong.

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

i think this thread is gonna die as soon as we finish up with curling

 

[LiL_JeN_JeN]

My goodness...
bJ-Yeh there really are tenpin pros...dodgeball sounds fun...id so join a dodgeball team haha!!

And why is curling called curling?? My understanding is that its more like sweeping...cant they call it sweeping?

 

[shortygb]

isnt tenpin bowling an olympic games sport? so they must have pros to do that.

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

u dont need to be pro to go to the olympics- just really passionate about your sport. (and have lots of talent.)

remember boxing is only limited to amateurs- pros cant compete

besides, tenpin isnt at the olympics- it was at the 1998 kuala lumpar c'mwth games, but wont be at next years in melb

 

[Bookie]

Curling curling curling. Keep this thread alive.

 

[bJ_Bhoy 87]

i think i found the ultimate spectator sport (still curling, o'course)

C4 considers 'midget curling' for breakfast
Thursday, August 11 2005, 13:31 BST -- by Neil Wilkes

Midgets are to be hurled across the ice in a pilot for a new Channel 4 breakfast show, Broadcast reports this week.

Rocks will be replaced by midgets on trays for the warped version of traditional Scottish sport curling.

Midget curling- lets make it the new national sport of australia

 

[Bookie]

I'm up for it