| From | Message | |
| Chefelf
2/09/2002 18:00:25 |
Subject: Which is Sadder.....? Message: That I bought my own bowling ball, that I made an Excel spreadsheet that does the math to calculate my bowling average or the fact that my bowling average is 85? | |
| Yahtzee 2/10/2002 03:17:45 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: I dunno, is that a good or a bad bowling average? I'm not too au fait with these things. | |
| Chefelf 2/10/2002 15:11:11 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: That is a really really really really really horrible bowling average. I am convinced at this point that in the group of people who own their own bowling balls that I am by far the worst bowler. | |
| Lefty 2/10/2002 15:21:42 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: ...so obviously, the solution is to give this bowling ball to someone else, yet keep it from them on a loan. Then you will own someone else's bowling ball, putting yourself in an entirely different catagory. | |
| Laura 2/10/2002 21:24:41 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: The max you can get bowling is 200, right? Good players get close to 200, like 185 or so. So-so players get around 120-150. Kinda bad players get 100. Last time I went bowling, I got a 12. | |
| Sister Wendy 2/11/2002 08:35:03 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Last time I went bowling, I was asked to leave. (and they wouldn't even give me my shoes back) | |
| Chefelf 2/11/2002 09:39:51 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: The max you can get in bowling is 300. Good players usually consistently get around 200. So-so players around 110-140. My highest score is 184 but recently I've been going more for style. I like making the ball skate right along the gutter for the length of the alley and then curve in all of a sudden at the last moment. Unfortunately since I'm new at this it usually curves right into the opposite gutter. C'est la vie! | |
| Kat 2/11/2002 11:12:30 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: I always request the bowling lanes with the bumpers so that you don't have to get a gutterball. Makes me feel special. | |
| Chefelf 2/11/2002 11:15:44 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: They have lanes like that? I'm going to the wrong bowling alleys. | |
| Yahtzee 2/11/2002 12:06:03 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: I could never get the hang of bowling. I was forever watching them trundle off into those little ditches along the side. Oh well. I suppose there are more worthwhile things to be crap at. | |
| Raka 2/11/2002 15:29:38 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Usually the bowling lanes with the bumpers are the cruel, cruel lanes reserved for small children. They are often accompanied by child-safe balls or normal size that weigh a bit less than a fair-sized burrito. The design is no doubt to deny pediatric chiropracters their fair share of business, but the result is heart-breakingly hilarious. The designers, obviously ignorant of such radical concepts as "momentum", failed to predict the look on the face of a child who agonizingly staggers four steps past the foul line and plops the ball in a path as straight and speedy as that of a wounded duckling, watches it lethargically ricochet off the bumpers, hit the full-weight pins... and... stop. One of the pins might rock a bit. Their tears are like sparkling little droplets of champagne giddiness in my heart. | |
| Lefty 2/11/2002 16:16:50 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Where we bowl, the computerized monitor interface not only regularly outwit me & my BA in Computer Science, but also show us pictures of Rodney Dangerfield when we throw gutterballs. Madness reigns supreme! | |
| Chefelf 2/11/2002 16:27:05 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: The place that I usually go has humorous taunting graphics of a bowling pin being turned into a banana split and a bowling ball being frightened by some pins. Adding insult to injury is usually the last thing that I need at the bowling alley where my fragile ego is already suffering from a great deal of stress trauma. Strangely enough, when I bowled this afternoon I saw the bumpers set up in one of the lanes. I really wanted to ask for that lane but was a touch too embarrassed. | |
| Kat 2/11/2002 17:20:23 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: oh, go on. You'll like it. | |
| Hmm... 2/17/2002 09:51:10 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: I think bumpers is the saddest thing you can do while bowling. I haven't used them since I was 6. Now unless somebody has the mental capacity of a six year old I think they'd know how to bowl well enough to not use bumpers. | |
| Laura 2/17/2002 10:21:29 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Mental capacity has nothing to do with it. But I wouldn't be happy with a score I got with the bumpers. "Oh yay! Another 200!" My hard-earned 12 is at least honorable. | |
| Yahtzee 2/17/2002 11:39:55 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Maybe on lanes with bumpers they could secretly feed engineered bowling balls onto the rack that bite your fingers off when you try to use them. You know. Just to add an edge. | |
| hmm.. 2/17/2002 11:54:21 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Sure mental capacity has a factor. If you don't know how to bowl then you're probably gonna have to use bumpers. Although the biting the fingers off thing is a good idea. I should look into that. Now are we talking real bowling or duckpin? I was never paying attention. | |
| Chefelf 2/17/2002 13:06:34 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: I'm not sure about the mental capacity thing. It's a skill that you hone with more and more practice. There are some basic things that you need to know but "skill level" is a little more appropriate than "mental capacity". On a related note: If I could get my bowling average up above my IQ I would be delighted! | |
| 2/17/2002 13:17:09 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Well my bowling average, last time i played was like 80 so I suck too. So my skill level is so low. what I shame. ah, that does sound better. thanks. and how old is that cutest brother thingy contest? | |
| Yahtzee 2/17/2002 13:54:23 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Well, I think that's been packed in now. I'm hoping to apply next time round. Sure I'm not a Redcloud technically, but I am cute. It's an English thing. | |
| 2/17/2002 13:55:31 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: hmmph, no fair. I wanna be cute too :( | |
| Chefelf 2/17/2002 14:37:47 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: It's gotta be about a year old. It was before Yahtzee did articles so that's going back to at least June. | |
| Aloha 2/17/2002 16:37:37 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: hmm,if you did apply for the next round, do you think you'd have a chance? I mean you'd be going up against chefelf and Laura. Those two alone are hard to beat. | |
| Chefelf 2/17/2002 16:40:59 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: ;-) | |
| ... 2/17/2002 16:45:48 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Hey, ya might not win the next one. With the right campaigning somebody else could win. Not everybody loves elves, what if a bunch of goblins decide to vote? | |
| Tina Fey 2/17/2002 17:23:02 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: I always vote for Jacques, because he is classically handsome and is obsessed with me, and also is the father of our son, Rudy; except for the times when I vote for Paul because of my deep-seated physical passion for him. | |
| Henry 2/17/2002 21:16:12 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: BOWLING IS GOOD. BOWLING WITHOUT BUMPERS IS LESS GOOD. BOWLING WITH MACHINE GUNS IS THE MOST FUN. | |
| Yahtzee 2/18/2002 12:01:49 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: I think that's a philosophy we can all get behind. | |
| Pan 2/18/2002 12:37:30 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Huzzah for machine gun bowling! | |
| PK 2/18/2002 16:22:18 | RE: Which is Sadder.....? Message: Oh come on, machine guns? That's so childish. Use the rocket launchers. | |
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