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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 08:42 PM Original message |
Is curling just shuffleboard on ice? |
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lob1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. Curling...the sport of beauticians. |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
2. Here's a decent FAQ to help get you started |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 09:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. LOL @ the Team USA curling FAQ |
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Patsy Stone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yes |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 08:02 AM Response to Reply #3 |
28. In addition, the sweeping raises the temperature of the ice. |
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lazarus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
4. it's tougher than it looks |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
5. kinda reminds me of shuffleboard |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. Drafting is important in controlling the path. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 08:55 PM Response to Original message |
7. Competitive Curling is definitely a sport |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 08:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Sweeping is definitely work and takes finesse and strategizing |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 09:01 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. No, but I've been a competitive curler |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 11:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. More distance than a golfer? I must be missing something here. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 07:15 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. each team throws eight stones per end |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 01:22 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. Okay, if you say... 1.7 miles is what I figured. Multiply that by 8 and you get 13.6 miles. |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 03:08 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. Three of four players walk the length for each stone |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
8. No definitely not - unless you are able to change the shuffle board in the middle of a throw |
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Guilded Lilly (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
11. It's close. But I wouldn't say *just*' |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 09:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. There's a time clock. In international competition each team gets 73min to throw all their stones. |
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Guilded Lilly (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 11:37 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. I wasn't clear in my statement... |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
13. It's like more bocce ball... |
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1620rock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 09:54 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. If you grow up in Canada or here on the border it is a great sport. |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
16. There aren't that many Winter sports |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
17. I think they are different |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
18. When I visited BC and locals told me about curling, I didn't believe em |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 07:26 AM Response to Original message |
22. Most curling courts have beer holders cut right into the ice |
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blueamy66 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #22 |
36. That's funny! |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 07:27 AM Response to Original message |
23. And to think that crap preempted KO and Rachel reruns. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
24. Curling is as much of a sport as golf. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
25. More like chess billiards. nt |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 07:34 AM Response to Original message |
26. No. The sweeping and the fact that it is on ice make it different. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
27. FYI - Curling is Scottish and over 500 years old. |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 02:51 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. The History of Curling, by John Kerr (1890): |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 05:57 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Got Cliff's Notes for that? |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
30. Give 'em mops and a pail and they're scrubbing the kitchen floor. n/t |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
31. Spoken as someone who's obviously never tried the game... |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
32. it has elements of billiards and snooker as well as shuffleboard |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
35. There's way too much curling in these Olympics. It's a sport with a strictly parochial appeal. nt |
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