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[Professur]

I just don't get curling. Sliding a rock on some ice and hitting others out of the way....

Then you're never actually paid any attention to it. Think pool, played across the width of a football field ..... with a 20lbs cue ball.

 

[Uki Chick]

Then you're never actually paid any attention to it. Think pool, played across the width of a football field ..... with a 20lbs cue ball.

Still doesn't interest me. Guess I'm just a hockey girl!

 

[Altron]

That sounds really awesome.

I am SO gonna try it the next time I'm in Vermont and the lake is frozen over.

 

[Professur]

Won't work, Al. You have to prepare the ice.

What Uki (and others) don't get about curling is ... the curl. They're not just throwing the rocks down the ice, they're spinning them and actually making them go sideways at the bottom. And depending on the Ice Maker, the ice surface may have different properties of curl within inches of each other. Throw to this point, and you can curl it 4 feet to the left. Two inches to the right of that point, and you can snap it 6 feet to the right.

 

[Altron]

Alright, I'll watch it on TV and play pool at my house then.

 

[Uki Chick]

I understand part of the whole game of curling, I just don't find it very interesting to watch. I'd rather clean my house if that's all that's on TV.