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eamo

Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:16 am Post subject: |
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| Give the curling 5 minutes and you won't be able to take your eyes off it for hours. Addictive as hell to watch. Must be great to play. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:09 am Post subject: |
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Satori

Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: Above it all
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| curling is more interesting than ping pong or archery |
Joking? Curling must be up for most boring sport in the universe. Archery I`ll give you, but ping pong at least people are moving about, it`s a lot more dynamic, not up near the top of the spectator sport list, but way way way ahead of curling. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| curling is more interesting than ping pong or archery |
Joking? Curling must be up for most boring sport in the universe. Archery I`ll give you, but ping pong at least people are moving about, it`s a lot more dynamic, not up near the top of the spectator sport list, but way way way ahead of curling. |
And anyway, Id much rather watch archery than curling. The worst thing on TV in Canada, besides commercials for Tim Horton's would have to be curling. By far the most boring "sport" on earth, even more so than golf. |
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Mills
Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:44 am Post subject: |
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I would rather watch the infomercial about the shoulder-strap-posture-fixer-thingy. |
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eamo

Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: |
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Not much love for the curling then....
When one team are down with their backs to the wall and the 'curler' (I've no idea what the guy who slides the thing down is called) the 'brushers' (again, no idea) go into a mad, frantic frenzy. Brushing for hell to make probably no difference at all....It's tense. It's intense! It's...It's...curling!! |
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HapKi

Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| It never occurred to me before, but ALL SPORTS in the Winter Olympics are played on either snow or ice. I never thought about that before. As if ice or snow was a prerequisite. I'd like to see them broaden out a bit, like a frigid freestyle swimming or something. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| It never occurred to me before, but ALL SPORTS in the Winter Olympics are played on either snow or ice. I never thought about that before. As if ice or snow was a prerequisite. I'd like to see them broaden out a bit, like a frigid freestyle swimming or something. |
I've always thought a race on ice, with the competitors wearing regular sneakers, would be riveting. They could have two events: smooth and bumpy. Like peanut butter.
Sparkles*_* |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| Give the curling 5 minutes and you won't be able to take your eyes off it for hours. Addictive as hell to watch. Must be great to play. |
No, it's greater. You need to try. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
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| It never occurred to me before, but ALL SPORTS in the Winter Olympics are played on either snow or ice. I never thought about that before. As if ice or snow was a prerequisite. I'd like to see them broaden out a bit, like a frigid freestyle swimming or something. |
I've always thought a race on ice, with the competitors wearing regular sneakers, would be riveting. They could have two events: smooth and bumpy. Like peanut butter.
Sparkles*_* |
Brilliant. They could also do the decathlon version of the race where the competitors would throw snowballs at each other. |
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Bulsajo

Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:46 am Post subject: |
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| Must be great to play. |
It hurts a LOT more than you would expect... |
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xeno439
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| I laugh every time I hear a reference to "curling". |
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Bulsajo

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SuperHero

Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| By far the most boring "sport" on earth, even more so than golf. |
No that award goes to lawn bowling. |
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Newbie

Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| curling is more interesting than ping pong or archery |
Joking? Curling must be up for most boring sport in the universe. Archery I`ll give you, but ping pong at least people are moving about, it`s a lot more dynamic, not up near the top of the spectator sport list, but way way way ahead of curling. |
Yeah. They move 4 feet to the left, 4 feet to the right. Lots of movement. |
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