Tuesday, February 21, 2006

The Curling Wars

Went to Brant's on Sunday to help with his move. A distance of about 50 feet, total, including the flight of stairs. Yes, he is moving within his present building. But anyway, a bunch of us were sitting around watching curling. You know, the sport with the 100+ foot ice channel, big smooth rocks, and brooms. They want to open a bar with curling lanes. I think this might be a bad idea. A bunch of drunks with heavy objects and sticks? Perhaps you could do it up north, even better in Canada, but not here. All you would need is a couple of dartboards and you'd have the weapons for a medieval battlefield. They don't call that last stone the "hammer" for nothing.

1 comment:

R said...

But I find something like curling comforting in this age of technology. You couldn't do something like freestyle aerial skiing without plastics, and silica, and titanium, not to mention computers. And sure, curling uses some of that now as well. But really, isn't it sort of prehistoric? "Push big stone. Smooth ice, goes longer. Make ice smoother." [grunt] "Where's my mammoth?"