#39518
08/25/2001 9:08 PM
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#39519
08/25/2001 9:23 PM
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Dear musick: I used to be nuts about tennis, but lab courses ended my tennis days, and I have not been able to participate in any sport for almost sixty years. But I can still enjoy reading about it. And I don't consider it BORING.
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#39520
08/25/2001 9:51 PM
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Darts (not too good), Pool (pretty good)...
got your own schtick, musick? (there's a potentially rhetorical question!) bring it on over, and we'll see if you're pretty good. when you've had enough, I'll let you win at darts so as to restore your self-esteem.
-joe (8-ball is for bars) cool
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#39521
08/25/2001 10:59 PM
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Pool (pretty good)...
got your own schtick, musick?
It's a question of musick's a-cue-stick properties.
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#39522
08/25/2001 11:44 PM
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I can see that one of the events of Wordapalooza! will be a pool tournament. It is important to note this now, so that I can get the laundry off the table in time ...
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#39523
08/26/2001 2:22 AM
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Let's see, musick...my strongest sports are/were baseball, ping-pong, pool, bowling, badminton, darts...and in the barroom of the historic inn at our village I'm getting pretty good at skittles, the table-top variety (by the way, I hear skittles is still pretty popular in England and several varieties of the game are played, is that true...any Brits here skittles aficionados?...any background or insight into the game would be helpful and appreciated...or perhaps that's a new thread?)
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#39524
08/26/2001 2:33 AM
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>bowling
when I were a lad, I was a member of the ND state champion HS bowling team (remember, we're talking ND here!). but this belongs on a non-sports thread.
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#39525
08/26/2001 4:56 PM
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I can hit the board in darts, (where I hit varies from game to game) I play pool well enough to win against my friends, my little brother, and my cousin if she consistantly hits the 8 ball in too soon. (She usually wins, though.) I can play shuffleboard, and win half the time. There are others, but I can't be bothered to think of them.
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#39526
08/28/2001 12:03 AM
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Does hammock swinging qualify?
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#39527
08/28/2001 1:28 AM
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it's undoubtedly better for you than bowling, considering the beer and second-hand smoke that generally come with the latter.
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#39528
08/28/2001 4:13 AM
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Does hammock swinging qualify?In a pig's eye, it does! 
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#39529
08/28/2001 12:21 PM
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I used to be a pretty mean 5-9-13 player in my youth.
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#39530
08/28/2001 2:01 PM
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#39531
08/28/2001 2:19 PM
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5 - 9 - 13? - 17..? I wanna play. Tell me the rules! (oops... what have I done?[white]Have mercy, F </board/images/icons/laugh.gif> )[/white]
No 17, just 5-9-13. And yer in luck, I don't remember all the rules. Basically a dice based drinking (and I *do mean drinking) game. Roll dice as long as you get aces. Fifth ace names the drink, ninth ace pays for it and thirteenth ace drinks it. Splains a lot, doesn't it.
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#39532
08/28/2001 2:30 PM
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I for one have never been drawn to a sport that did not involve drinking my favorite lager. All the softball that I played from tot on, fast pitch of course, led to my retiring to slow-pitch after college. And what does one do in the dugout of a slow-pitch game???? Sip from the 40oz Slurpee cup full of one's favorite beverage.
I also played Rugby in college (softball got boring) which is a violent excuse to drink to excess. I would imagine that the rituals surrounding Rugby are far more sophisticated in areas of the country other than Illinois (where I attended school), but the 'get naked in a bar after your first ever score and let your teammates pour beer all over you' is an interesting one at least.
Other college favorites include darts (cricket) and pool. To this day I cannot win in either unless I've downed several. Does something for the nerves I suppose.
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#39533
08/28/2001 3:25 PM
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Forgive me but this reminds me of an ad long ago, showing an exhausted looking Indian buck in a hammock, with a Indian girl with a mocking expression leaving him, and the caption "One buck well spent on a Spring Maid sheet." The owner of the company was a WWI ace, whose name I think was Elliot Spring. That's the kind of hammockery I wish I were still capable of. Here's an URL about it. http://www.snopes2.com/business/market/springmd.htm
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#39534
08/28/2001 8:38 PM
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My favorite drinking game is/was Mexican Trivial Pursuit. Whenever you miss a question for a biscuit (or piece of pie) you have to take a healthy swig from a bottle of Mescal. The winner is either the person with all their biscuits or the person that eats the worm, whichever comes first. After the first few misses, it doesn't really matter anymore if anyone wins unless you're really squeamish about eating worms.
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#39535
08/28/2001 10:33 PM
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okay mexican trivial pursuit sound like a fun game with the right people.. i as, most of you have notice, have a great breathe of knowledge, (and often, very little depth)--in other words, i am a trivia pro! when it first came out, i played with the wrong people-- in one game, my cousins were eager for me to take on the challege of sports, since they knew, when it came to sports, i knew nothing.. (and since i was able to answer every other question that came my way-- i was racing through the game.) well, actually, next to nothing about sports. but i did know where, in order to play the 10th hole, you had to cross a 13th century stone bridge. St Andrew's, of course. the 13th century bridge forces you to only consider golf courses in UK-- and really how many really well know golf courses are there in the UK? they would never play with me again... ex husband had the same attitude. this crowd would be fun though, most of you have both depth and breathe of knowledge.
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#39536
08/28/2001 11:18 PM
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Do you suspect that had you played the Mexican version, they would have been glad to play again?
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#39537
08/29/2001 12:58 AM
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This sounds like a possible activity for Wordapalooza, don't you think?[sliding under the table emoticon]
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#39538
08/29/2001 12:15 PM
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After many sessions of 5-9-13 the general consensus among the core group of players was that the only winners were those who named but neither paid nor drank.
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#39539
08/29/2001 1:46 PM
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'Drive out the wicked person from among you.' 1 Corinthians 5:9-13
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#39540
08/29/2001 1:58 PM
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'Drive out the wicked person from among you.' 1 Corinthians 5:9-13
Let's quote the entire passage, tsuwm, not just stop at verse 9:
'Drive out the wicked person from among you, for he shall reap that which he hath not sown and profit from the labors of others. Let him not enjoy the harvest when he hath not given of the sweat of his own brow.' 1 Corinthians 5:9-13
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#39541
08/29/2001 2:46 PM
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well, I'm virtually the last person to get into a bible-quoting contest, but this is what I find:
9 ¶ I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the
covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out
of the world.
11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is
called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer,
or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye
judge them that are within?
13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among
yourselves that wicked person.
must be a different set of Corinthians.
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#39542
08/29/2001 2:51 PM
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must be a different set of Corinthians.
Oh. Mebbe it was I Dorians 5:9-13.
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#39543
08/29/2001 3:38 PM
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Corinthians. Oh. Mebbe it was Dorians
How ironic.
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#39544
08/29/2001 5:02 PM
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...or maybe it was fine Corinthian leather.
-R. Montalban
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#39545
08/30/2001 11:23 AM
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Corinthians. Oh. Mebbe it was Dorians
How ironic. No--Ionic.
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#39546
08/30/2001 11:27 AM
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'Drive out the wicked person from among you.' 1 Corinthians 5:9-13
Faldage! Stunning steganography! I didn't have a clue!
And, tsuwm--this feat has dazzled me beyond any of your other dazzling posts, I do believe. Kudos, sir!
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#39547
08/30/2001 12:04 PM
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How ironic. No--Ionic.A lady expresses herself curvilinearly. Jackie, I'll have to keep an eye-on you.  ---- he said stoicly.
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#39549
08/30/2001 11:20 PM
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Monopoly! -- play for the less physically inclined?
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#39550
10/01/2001 2:18 PM
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I still have a word game called Probe. (kind of like Wheel of Fortune without the wheel, using cards instead.) Anyone ever hear of it?
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#39551
10/01/2001 4:17 PM
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No, but I had a Ford Probe that sounds just the same, kinda wheel of fortune without the wheel. come to that, without the fortune either...
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#39552
10/02/2001 8:16 AM
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but I had a Ford Probe that sounds just the same
and whatever happened to the Chrysler Catheter, the Skoda Scalpel, and the others you are about to remind me of?
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#39553
10/02/2001 8:27 AM
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<<I'm not much of a sports fan
I have no idea where else to put this, so...
Have any of you noticed Roger Clemmons voice? (Clemmons, for those who don't know, is one of the Yankees star pitchers. He's very large, has a bit of a temper, and has been known to forget himself and throw baseball bats at runners. He claims not always to be able to distinguish between bats and balls.) It seems to me he has a lovely set of tenor pipes and should be singing Verdi.
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#39554
10/02/2001 8:28 AM
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<<I'm not much of a sports fan
I have no idea where else to put this, so...
Have any of you noticed Roger Clemmons's voice? (Clemmons, for those who don't know, is one of the Yankees star pitchers. He's very large, has a bit of a temper, and has been known to forget himself and throw baseball bats at runners. He claims not always to be able to distinguish between bats and balls.) It seems to me he has a lovely set of tenor pipes and should be singing Verdi.
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#39555
10/02/2001 12:21 PM
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a lovely set of tenor pipes and should be singing Verdi.
Singing Verdi? Eewww! It's bad enough he's pitching for the Yankees.
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#39556
10/02/2001 1:03 PM
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<<Singing Verdi? Eewww! It's bad enough he's pitching for the Yankees.
perfect pitch, huh?
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No, really. Has anyone else noticed?
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#39557
10/02/2001 2:35 PM
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perfect pitch, huh?
Only if he went the whole game with only eighty-one pitches, none of which were hit.
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