BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!

Subject: BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 04:31 PM

Sorry, Scotland....

Subject: RE: BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 28 Feb 06 - 11:00 PM

Don't worry, Rapaire. Those alleged early golfers were actually trying to play pool before the pool table had been invented.

Subject: RE: BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 05:22 PM

Golfimbul was a chieftain of the Orcs of Mount Gram, who led his band in an invasion of the Shire. He was defeated at the Battle of Greenfields by a force led by Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took; the battle was only the first of two which were ever fought within the borders of the Shire (the second was the Battle of Bywater, the last battle of the War of the Ring, where his descendant Pippin fought). Bullroarer knocked off Golfimbul's head with a club and it soared into the air, finally falling into a rabbit hole. According to Hobbit folklore, this inspired the game of golf, which takes its name from the Orc. Golfimbul's name was probably specifically constructed for this pun.

Subject: RE: BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 08:25 PM

My backyard opens onto a golf course, and I think some of the players are either Orcs or Republicans. (Or maybe Democrats. Or Whigs. Or Tories. Especially Tories.) Even in these times.

Subject: RE: BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 08:26 PM

IMHO, only the Scots would be stubborn enough to play a game closely akin to outdoor billiards on a surface usually closer to vertical than horizontal, and further, to handicap themselves by using a tool singularly badly designed for the purpose.

It must be a manifestation of the masochism engendered by the climate of the country.

As to whether they were daft enough to actually invent it.....Who knows?.

I do wonder tho', how they managed to involve the usually sane English.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!
From: Peace
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 09:47 PM

"I do wonder tho', how they managed to involve the usually sane English."

That's where the idea of the 19th hole came from.

Subject: RE: BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 10:17 PM

I usta shoot golf, but when ya get 'em skinned and cleaned there ain't hardly nothin' left and even THAT tastes all rubbery and nasty. So I give it up.

Subject: RE: BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!
From: kendall
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 07:29 PM

I read somewhere that Diogenes gave up looking for the honest man when the Scots invented golf.

Subject: RE: BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!
From: Peace
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 07:47 PM

But the jokes are good.

Subject: RE: BS: So much for Scotland and Golf!!
From: autolycus
Date: 02 Mar 06 - 07:47 PM

Oh,it's the Chinese now.

I remember the time when it was the Soviets who appeared to have invented everything, including jazz.

Well at least the Chinese is an old civilization. So they probably did.