BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 02:27 PM

All is going according to plan, eh? Did you see that game? I am not concerned about the game in a half hour. Go Canucks!

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 06:31 PM

The GAME is on!

I am PUMPED! After watching the Canuck women's hockry team advace to the gold medal game today, I am full of HUUURRRRYYY HARRRRRRRD.

Canada and Scotland! Goooooo, Scotland!

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 07:42 AM

Sooooo. Canada and Scotland meet tonight in the pirst playoff game, eh? The Brick flicked on the final stone in the extra end, eh?

The thought plickens.....

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu - PM
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 01:23 PM

Scotland lost to the Swiss? I didn't see the game or the score, so, this is unbased, but, d'ya s'pose they are playin it cagey and lookin for a shot at Canada in the semis rather than the final? Would Martin throw to China this afternoon in response to such a dastardly ploy?

I know that sounds improbale and includes hypotheses which could be considered rude ane even arrogant, but someone has to try to stir up some, ah, er, excitement and interest... yeah, that's it.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 10:21 AM

I assume the reason this thread fell off the page is that you are all as glued to the Big Briar as I am. Amazing curling, eh?!

The Big Briar.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 02:03 PM

Oops... they play China this evening. FRance uust shook hands with Canada at the end of 6 with the French taking a single making it 7 to 2.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 01:23 PM

Scotland lost to the Swiss? I didn't see the game or the score, so, this is unbased, but, d'ya s'pose they are playin it cagey and lookin for a shot at Canada in the semis rather than the final? Would Martin throw to China this afternoon in response to such a dastardly ploy?

I know that sounds improbale and includes hypotheses which could be considered rude ane even arrogant, but someone has to try to stir up some, ah, er, excitement and interest... yeah, that's it.

BTW, Rapaire, the old style curling brooms are quite a weapon when handled properly. As fer draggin yer privates on the ice, that only happened in Scotland way back when they played in kilts.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Apr 09 - 08:22 AM

I don't have a clue about how stuff works either.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 12:09 PM

Ahhh... they do the webcast thing too... but I ain't got no clue how that stuff works.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 09 - 11:36 AM

In a few hours, four sheets of world class curling. TSN has the TV rights.

Are you as excited as me?

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 04:15 PM

Well, that would depend on the muff and just how furry it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 04:09 PM

Are you disqualified if you slide on stones enclosed in a fur muff?

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 04:05 PM

Yes, Rap. That's it.

Helmets? Beer? Maybe a breathalizer?

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: Beer
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 03:27 PM

I've seen some nasty falls taken by men who forgot they weren't as young anymore. Helmets should be mandatory in senior leagues.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 03:09 PM

Okay, so this curling thing...let me get it straight:

Some guys walk out on the ice slide their stones down the ice. Some other guys sweep the ice in front of the guys who are sliding on their stones.

I guess the guy who can slide the furthest and has the biggest stones wins, huh?

Don't they get a condition known medically as "Frozen Scrotum"? Do they freeze or otherwise harden their parts before sliding on them? How do they explain the frostbite to their partners or, for that matter, to the guys in the bar? And what happens if one of the sweepers sweeps too enthusiastically and hits the guy in the stones with his broom?

Anyway, sliding down the ice on your reproductive organs seems downright chancy to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 09 - 02:22 PM

The Men's World Championship starts here in Moncton tomorrow.

I have a gut feeling that Scotland is gonna be hard to beat this year. Murdoch's rink is great.

I have not been totally impressed with the way Canuck Skip Kevin Martin has played in late ends lately. Seems to me he has this way of dealing with pressure wherein he becomes detached and mechanical. Almost a, "Let's just throw the rocks and accept what happens." I KNOW that isn't true, but it looks that way sometimes.

Of course, if the Canucks peak... Martin's rink will be hard to beat.

Fun time.... what about this rink? Martin, Furby, Howard (Russ) and Nedohin... in that order... or would you switch any?... except Nedohin, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 06:27 PM

Timbits! mmmmm

Haven't had any in about ten years. Still trying to lose the weight.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: olddude
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 01:52 PM

I will get me Broom and not one has better donuts ... hmmmmm
then Tim Horton ....

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 09 - 01:33 PM

Soooo... the Tim Horton's Brier final is tonight. It is gonna be goooood!

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 08:39 PM

For all of you guys who were over at that other thread a while ago:

Everyone who was wondering what things there are to do with a fruitcake: Put it in the freezer over night, get yor best broom and your best girlfriend, go out on the ice and, if you've not done it before, sweep together!!!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: akenaton
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 07:12 PM

Hi Ebbie haven't seen you around for a while howsitgoin?

Yes it was good Ebbie ..Happy memories...and coincidentally on New years day we used to play Shinty on ice.
Shinty is a Gaelic sport, like Hurly in Ireland, very dangerous especially on ice with no protection like they have in Ice-hockey, but it fair got the blood runnin' hot.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 06:53 PM

That sounds like fun, ake. Around here - Juneau, Alaska - people take their hockey game onto the lakes and ponds. Now that Juneau has built an ice rink they probably don't do it as frequently but it was fun to watch.

When I was in my late teens I spent a couple of winters in southern Michigan. Young people took their cars out on the frozen lakes and rivers and each tried to outdo the other in sending a car into a skid and slide and then pulling it out again. Fairly safe fun. Saw a few fender benders however.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: akenaton
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 05:26 PM

Hi gnu!.... I used to play a lot of Curling, it's a National Winter game in Scotland, but over the last few decades the climate has become too mild, we don't get enough frost to freeze the lochs and ponds anymore.

Curling in Scotland was played at night on small lochs or pools, the ice would be illuminated by Tilley oil lamps and braziers (sp?) provided the heat. Central heating of course came out of a whisky bottle!
Upwards of a hundred folks would come out to play curling in our area, and it was a wonderful experience, with the noise of the stones on the rough ice, the cracking of the ice itself as it contracted and the cries of the sweepers and skips.

Curling was known in Scotland as "the roarin' game" due to the noise the delivered stones made as they travelled up the ice...Ake

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 04:58 PM

My hair's too short, and besides, I look lousy in curls. Haven't worn them since my mother cut my hair the first time.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 04:30 PM

Screw you gnu.........

I really got hooked and we don't get any coverage at all. I can get every NHL game, EVERY DAMN ONE----and though I know you like hockey, I could care ta' fuck less. But you'd think we could get some little tidbit program sometime or another but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.........

Time Warner blows whales...........


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 04:17 PM

Parking and traffic won't be a problem for me this year. It's a 30 minute walk from my house.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 04:15 PM

Now, you may not get the same expert commentary as on TV, but you probably will... from anybody and everybody within earshot.

You will get the same overhead shots on the big screens. That is a big plus these days.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 04:14 PM

Why, in that case, I shall surely attend. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 04:11 PM

Oh, I dunno. Gold bowl seats for 9 days are only $400.

All tickets include access to the Keith's Patch... entertainment, good food, cheap Keith's. I hear there may be some local Celtic bands playing.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 04:01 PM

A couple of years ago when I was traveling by train through Canada I discovered that I really enjoyed watching curling on television. Might be a little slow in real life, though. :)

Subject: BS: Are you ready for some CURLING??!! 2009
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jan 09 - 03:58 PM

Casinorama Skins was REALLY wild today! Some great stones, but that last one was the icing on the cake. Dave Nedohin ia awesome!

Ferby took $20k so far... can they take more in the final tomorrow?

More to the point... who will they meet in the final?

Nail biting action!