Re: Hockey, Curling and other sports (some futuristic)
From: Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@j...>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:10:59 EST
Subject: Re: Hockey, Curling and other sports (some futuristic)
Hobbits are Scottish!?!?!?!
And Clams have legs (for the BC fans.)
On 26 Feb 2002 12:04:40 -0500 Flak Magnet <flakmagnet72@yahoo.com>
writes:
>Hang on! I thought Golf was invented by the Hobbits! A Took to be
>specific!
>
>According to my information, Bullroarer Took knocked Golfimbul's head
>off with a wooden club, it sailed 100 yards and rolled down into a
>rabbit hole... Winning a battle and inventing Golf in the same
>stroke.
>(I may have inverted the names...)
>
>You're really confusing me now!
>
>--Flak
>
>On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:50, Tony Christney wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 03:11 PM, Tomb wrote:
>>
>> > 1) Curling: KH thinks this is a bit odd. Karl-Heinz, it is a
>_Scottish_
>> > sport. Just thank the Lord it does not involve Sheep or parts
>thereof.
>> > These are the same people that invented the Caber Toss. And as for
>it
>> > being shuffleboard, to quote a line from the upcoming Men With
>Brooms
>> > movie (how dreadfully Canadian), "To play this game, you need
>really big
>> > Stones."
>> >
>> You shouldn't forget golf when mentioning bizarre, frustrating, yet
>> strangely fun sports invented by the Scots. Throw in haggis, kilts
>> and bagpipes and you have an interesting nation indeed...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tony C.
>
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>
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