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Can someone tell me in what ways curling isn't like bocce and/or shuffleboard - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:19 24
- Strong sweeping can change the ice temperature by 2-4 degrees and that takes a lot of work. - Name Withheld By Request Feb 18, 12:28
- more drinking -- nm - zork Feb 18, 12:24
- All team members are involved in every shot, in one way or another. -- nm - Shaun Feb 18, 12:24
- More scarfs. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 18, 12:23 1
  - matching sweaters! -- nm - Andie Feb 18, 12:24
- You can say pretty much the same about golf. Some people play it for fun, and other people play competitively. -- nm - Roger More Feb 18, 12:22
- plenty of retired people DO curl. it's a tiny bit more physically involved, the rocks are heavy, the sweeping is only in curling, but it's not - Andie Feb 18, 12:20 14
  - that 's how elderly Canadians get that cold in their bones. And the sweeping can be quite vigourous -- nm - zork Feb 18, 12:23
  - it looks completely ridiculous IMO. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 12:21 12
    - I love the precision about it. -- nm - Max Feb 18, 12:22
    - i totally get that. until you play it. -- nm - Andie Feb 18, 12:22
    - OK, everyone raise your hand if you know *why* they call it curling? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 12:21 9
      - *raises hand*....nm - x Feb 18, 12:25
      - because they bend it like beckham? -- nm - Max Feb 18, 12:22
      - Cuz shufflehockey just sounded stupid? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:22 1
        
        I can't wait until Skeeball becomes an Olympic sport. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 12:24
      - yep. -- nm - Andie Feb 18, 12:22
      - (I suppose I should raise my hand, albeit with a caveat that I could be wrong) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 12:22 3
        
        No right answer! -- nm - mara Feb 18, 12:23 2
        
        No answer left behind -- nm - zork Feb 18, 12:25 1
        
        YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE ANSWER! nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 12:25
- You're just making a case of shuffleboard as an Olympic sport. -- nm - Mop (227 lbs) Feb 18, 12:20
- You can't have old people on ice like that. Someone will break a hip -- nm - oblique Feb 18, 12:20
- it is on ice. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 12:20
Music journalism lesson #1 if your source is Ronnie Hawkins - get independent comfirmation. -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 12:17 2
- nor any of his kids -- nm - zork Feb 18, 12:18 1
  - err, that came out wonky -- nm - zork Feb 18, 12:19
Agents and officers of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported that 289 of their guns were lost or stolen between 2005-2008. -- (link) - Don Homer Feb 18, 12:14 3
- they're all covering up murders by claiming their guns were lost or stolen! -- nm - zork Feb 18, 12:20
- Why do they even give them weapons. -- nm - Loyola Feb 18, 12:17
- it happens. you put the gun in your shirt pocket, lean over the toilet to expel last night's party, and oops, the gun slides out into the bowl. - Max Feb 18, 12:16
Olympics coverage question. as I surf the listings, I find no US coverage on any of the non-english channels - peglegpete Feb 18, 12:13 3
- Maybe the Winter Games aren't as robust as the Summer Games so 9 channels aren't necessary when 5 will do? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:14 2
  - It's probably mostly about lack of latin participation in the games. -- nm - Ender Feb 18, 12:18 1
    - ah come on, Mexico did send one dude (in his 50s iirc) -- nm - crash davis Feb 18, 12:21
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- unknown at this point -- nm - poochinski Feb 18, 12:16 1
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- he certainly seemed to share a lot of the anti-establishment and anti-corporatist sentiments common to some of their more fringe elements.\ -- nm - znufrii Feb 18, 12:15
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    - we've been waiting for you to come along and read the thing so you can tell us who's right, obvie... -- nm - znufrii Feb 18, 12:26
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  - I want to believe. -- nm - Pixie Mulder Feb 18, 12:17
- Unclear at the moment, but his suicide note indicates he shared many of their concerns -- nm - Roger More Feb 18, 12:15
- I'm not sure, but he definitely hated Bush. -- nm - Loyola Feb 18, 12:14
- No. -- nm - Ender Feb 18, 12:14
STIS: what's the strap for that the Biathletes have on their left upper arm? -- nm - marcel Feb 18, 12:12 2
- It's a circulatory trick to steady their aim -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 12:13
- Ammo clip? -- nm - TWuG Feb 18, 12:12
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- US curling spoils - Ender Feb 18, 12:11
Gordon Lightfoot: Live in Peace. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 18, 12:09 2
- " Ladies and Gentlemen, we have breaking news to report. Generalissimo Francisco Franco is STILL DEAD." -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 12:13
- This reminds me: I saw a postcard in my MIL's collection from 1910 that said "Live Long and Prosper -- nm - TWuG Feb 18, 12:11
US vs. Denmark curling spoiler - Todd Manning Feb 18, 12:09
You know who was gay? (I think I'm setting a personal record for linking today) -- (link) - prayformojo Feb 18, 12:05 3
- That's gonna go over well. -- nm - Mop (227 lbs) Feb 18, 12:13
- phew. i thought it was gonna be liberace...nm - x Feb 18, 12:07 1
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Mmmm... live hockey. -- nm - Mop (227 lbs) Feb 18, 12:04
trivia, put your answers on the IM, what event caused a country that won no Winter Olympic medals since 1964 to become a medal powerhouse from 92 on - crash davis Feb 18, 12:04 16
- the fall of Communism -- nm - peglegpete Feb 18, 12:11
- Global warming. -- nm - Loyola Feb 18, 12:11
- I would think - zork Feb 18, 12:08
- maybe - JaxSean Feb 18, 12:07 2
  - China did just start participating in 1992, so they didn't win one in 1964 -- nm - crash davis Feb 18, 12:09 1
    - Ah -- nm - JaxSean Feb 18, 12:10
- guess answer? - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:05 5
  - since pixie can't follow instructions I'll give it to you with a slight correction - crash davis Feb 18, 12:07 4
    - you *know* that's what i meant, morlock! -- nm - poochinski Feb 18, 12:08 2
      - also, what instructions? -- nm - poochinski Feb 18, 12:08 1
        
        "Put your answers in the IM"....god, you whine enough to get temporary South Korean citizenship. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:09
    - *breaks down and cries upon being blessed by this honor* -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:08
- fall of the Berlin Wall (West Germany) -- nm - poochinski Feb 18, 12:05
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  - ooh, close but no cigar (hint spoils) - crash davis Feb 18, 12:05
- its a historical event, not a sporting event -- nm - crash davis Feb 18, 12:04
Interesting. Apparently problem drinkers cut their drinking by 1/3 after taking an online test. -- (link) - Andie Feb 18, 12:01 6
- For how long? -- nm - mara Feb 18, 12:11 3
  - they said it was based on checking back with them 6 months later -- nm - Andie Feb 18, 12:12 2
    - That's impressive. -- nm - mara Feb 18, 12:13 1
      - i did the test, it's quick. (i, apparently, have a low indicator of a problem.) -- nm - Andie Feb 18, 12:16
- The test is very informative. thx! -- nm - OAE Feb 18, 12:09
- are these people who thought they had to give a urine sample through their computer? - zork Feb 18, 12:06
Dead or Alive: I Love Gordon Lightfoot, and have since... - OAE Feb 18, 12:00
sounds like a woman and a 12 year old girl rescued from the pilot's burning house this morning -- nm - zork Feb 18, 11:54
ML, please to be citing the last person (any person) in the Democratic Party who called for a Republican senator to be hanged? -- nm - poochinski Feb 18, 11:52 20
- I'm sure its happened -- nm - crash davis Feb 18, 11:54
- You mean a politician, or just anybody? -- nm - mara Feb 18, 11:53 18
  - he said the Democratic Party had nutjobs in it too. i'm just asking to see the evidence of anyone calling for the death of an opposing party member - poochinski Feb 18, 11:55 17
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      - I'm sure the moveon.org losers did at some point. maybe not in an official capactiy though. -- nm - Remlik Feb 18, 12:05
      - if it is so obvious for me to see, then it should be no problem for you to give me specific examples -- nm - poochinski Feb 18, 11:58 14
        
        Google "kill bush" and report back to us in a few months. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 18, 11:59 13
        
        he is asking for a politician, not just any random nut job on the internet. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 18, 12:01 12
        
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        wait, so politicians have to be elected officials? - tRuMaN Feb 18, 12:08 9
        
        If you're going to count tea party people you need to include the anti-war protest wackos too. -- nm - Ender Feb 18, 12:13 8
        
        except they werent ever really a political subdivision of a political party, they were just wackos. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 18, 12:15 7
        
        C'mon....they were to the Democrats as the Tea Party is to the GOP....remember Ned Lamont taking the Democratic nomination from Lieberman? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:16 6
        
        he didn't take it. he got more votes. -- nm - poochinski Feb 18, 12:26
        
        wait, he run as a supporting member of an antiwar political subdivision of the democratic party, or just as a democrat violently opposed to the war - tRuMaN Feb 18, 12:20 4
        
        Jeebus, we really can't agree that "there are nuts in every political party"? Seriously? - Dr.Vermin Feb 18, 12:23 3
        
        oh, I think we could agree with that. - tRuMaN Feb 18, 12:25 2
        
        Well, of course not now....the President is a Democrat. - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:26 1
        
        and they were prominent members of a political party/faction? - tRuMaN Feb 18, 12:32
        
        Exactly. Both sides have a lot of inmates in the asylum. Only the GOP puts them in charge. -- nm - TWuG Feb 18, 12:03
I can't decide if TaxMasters ads on CNN right now are genius timing or d'oh! -- nm - zork Feb 18, 11:52
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- "Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether I broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with my female party guests - I did" - pmb Feb 18, 12:00 5
  - *golf clap* ( L5 ) -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 12:03 2
    - nitpick: I don't see how L5 and golf clap are compatible -- nm - zork Feb 18, 12:17 1
      - golf clap is the VD that Tiger passed to the hos. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 12:19
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  - nice -- nm - prayformojo Feb 18, 12:01
- i'd rather just wait until he starts winning again so i can laugh at everyone who's writing him off...nm - x Feb 18, 11:56 13
  - Who's writing him off? -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 11:58
  - i'm not writing him off, for the record - poochinski Feb 18, 11:57 6
    - i don't mean anyone here, fwiw....nm - x Feb 18, 12:05 5
      - they're morons...his entire career has been to remember slights both real and imaginary and make people pay.... - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:07 4
        
        exactly....nm - x Feb 18, 12:10 3
        
        I didn't say "has lost" but contracts are getting cancelled or will not be renewed by the handful. His earning power will still ... - zork Feb 18, 12:14 2
        
        oops, this should be under your reply to me below -- nm - zork Feb 18, 12:16
        
        If he comes back and regains his skillset, he'll be huuuuge still. Kobe bent a girl over a chair and his endorsements are at a high point. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:15
  - he still is losing the bulk of his income, i.e. endorsements -- nm - zork Feb 18, 11:57 1
    - you're kidding, right?...nm - x Feb 18, 11:58
  - Who is writing him off? -- nm - Diva Feb 18, 11:57 2
    - nmbWaWHO - prayformojo Feb 18, 12:00 1
      - frakkin morlocks! -- nm - Diva Feb 18, 12:01
- This'll end all those made-for-TV movies about Tiger. Now it's straight to PPV -- nm - budice Feb 18, 11:54
- I'm kind of interested to see if there are any marks or scars on his face. -- nm - mara Feb 18, 11:52 4
  - I bet he grows a beard. -- nm - Spawn Feb 18, 11:53 2
    - he hasn't (there was a picture out yesterday) -- nm - poochinski Feb 18, 12:01 1
      - What?!? Link?!?! -- nm - mara Feb 18, 12:12
  - heh, you sound like Tony K from PTI -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 11:53
- Some guy on the radio this morning said that the timing of it, at the first golf event of the season, being sponsored by Accenture to boot, is an - Loyola Feb 18, 11:51
- "I like white women...what can I say?" -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 11:51 7
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    - he's gonna bang Oprah??? nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 12:08 3
      - No chance - Will Hunting Feb 18, 12:09 2
        
        she's so rich, she can afford to be white for a day. nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 12:10
        
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    - Gotta avoid Springer....the temptation of all that white trash booty might be too much for him. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 11:53
  - *whips belt* -- nm - Pooty Tang Feb 18, 11:52
- if he goes all Valentine's Day ( the movie) *spoils* that would be the greatest - Epiphany Feb 18, 11:51
- "Beyonce had the best music video this year" nm -- nm - groiny Feb 18, 11:50 2
  - "of all time!" -- nm - Andie Feb 18, 11:50 1
    - "one of" -- nm - zork Feb 18, 11:55
- I LOVE THE BLACK MAN -- nm - Jerry McVermin Feb 18, 11:49
- He should have asked Conan to write it. I love "People of Earth,..." -- nm - Max Feb 18, 11:49 4
  - Conan isn't dead? -- nm - Spawn Feb 18, 11:50 3
    - career wise or literally? Let's ask Ronnie -- nm - Epiphany Feb 18, 11:51 2
      - fss psf spf fss mh nm fhe. -- nm - Shy Ronnie Feb 18, 12:00
      - Sorry, the crystal is cloudy. Check back later. -- nm - Ronnie Hawkins si Feb 18, 11:52

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