so...the Olympics are on...

[unclehobart]

WOOT! Bronze for the US in curling... our first ever anything in the sport.

 

[Nixy]

WOOT! Bronze for the US in curling... our first ever anything in the sport.

I have actually come to like curling during these the twenty-ith olympia...

 

[Professur]

Curling is ... a spectator sport. The energy and tension just doesn't make it through a cathode ray tube. You simply can't get a true perspective of the length of the ice and the hair's width control they have with 50+lbs granite stones. The echos of the yelling driving the adreneline.

But since they did away with the corn broom, I'm not as big a fan. The slap-slap-slap on the ice quickly became your heartrate. Scrubbing with a nylon brush just (16) kills it for me.

 

[Nixy]

Curling is ... a spectator sport. The energy and tension just doesn't make it through a cathode ray tube. You simply can't get a true perspective of the length of the ice and the hair's width control they have with 50+lbs granite stones. The echos of the yelling driving the adreneline.

But since they did away with the corn broom, I'm not as big a fan. The slap-slap-slap on the ice quickly became your heartrate. Scrubbing with a nylon brush just (16) kills it for me.

They have brushes with and without bristles too...what's that about?

 

[Professur]

Even bristles have been known to come loose and foul a stone.

 

[Professur]

Streaker cuts no ice at bronze medal match



PINEROLO, Italy (Reuters) - Britain's match against the United States for the men's curling bronze medal was interrupted on Friday when a male streaker ran across the ice.


With poultry for a loin cloth, the man vaulted the barriers and danced up and down the side of the ice sheet for several minutes before being bundled away by bemused rink attendants.

The British team, skipped by David Murdoch, who were lagging the U.S. 6-2 in the sixth end, rested on their brooms, laughing, while the streaker jiggled past.

As armed police ejected the man, naked into the cold mountain air, he was heard to plead in a Scottish accent: "Please will someone bring me my clothes?"

The British team, made up of all Scots, went on to lose the game 8-6.

Well that made the game more interesting, at least.

Source

 

[Nixy]

I hope someone brought him his clothes...

 

[Nixy]

Damn Gushue always making me cry...he called his mom AS SOON as they won...so sweet.

 

[Winky]

 

[Winky]

http://home.datacomm.ch/marco.fernando/fla/bozzetto/olympics.swf

 

[tonksy]

The fencing was the best!

 

[K62]

Canada wins gold in curling! Wow, that was the first game I have ever watched of curling... I really enjoyed it! It's amazing how much control they have over those stones.

That Mark Nichols feller was great!

 

[Nixy]

Canada wins gold in curling! Wow, that was the first game I have ever watched of curling... I really enjoyed it! It's amazing how much control they have over those stones.

That Mark Nichols feller was great!

Of course, he's a newfie

 

[Leslie]

The primary grades at the school are having a mock Olympics today to celebrate both the Olympics and the beginning of March Break, which starts at end of school today.

The teachers sent a note home yesterday asking for loans of GT Racer sleds

to use for a boblsled run!

I don`t know that I see this ending well.

 

[Professur]

At the cottage last year, I set up a bob sled run using an old aluminium tobaggan. I gave out long before the kids got tired of it.

 

[Leslie]

did you make the kids wear helmets?

 

[Professur]

Nope. Why would I do that?

 

[Leslie]

I was beating myself up all day for not sending him with one. But then he would have got beaten up, so I guess it all washes out.

They got rained out in the end, so everyone got home ok, heads intact

 

[paul_valaru]

I was beating myself up all day for not sending him with one. But then he would have got beaten up, so I guess it all washes out.

They got rained out in the end, so everyone got home ok, heads intact

hmmmm


next year i will tell them it is fun to go down head first.

 

[AlphaTroll]

What in the hell is the fuss about curling? Sounds stupid to me - curling is something you do with hair, not a sport for ice.