tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847877.post114056166984726963..comments2024-02-08T04:15:53.399-06:00Comments on Why Not Blog?: Me and my broomDonnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08200732104876804746noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847877.post-1140809878764744912006-02-24T13:37:00.000-06:002006-02-24T13:37:00.000-06:00Well, it looks likely Britain has lost that curlin...Well, it looks likely Britain has lost that curling feeling. What mania will be next? <BR/><BR/>About the apparent boring-ness of curling: I've heard so many people (including alb here) admit to watching it that I have to believe it isn't boring but rather quite intense. Something about it...that bizarre potentiality of the stone on ice. It could go anywhere. And yet, somehow, it goes, more or less, toward that goal. Hmmm.Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08200732104876804746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847877.post-1140684818932141702006-02-23T02:53:00.000-06:002006-02-23T02:53:00.000-06:00"OK, so the men might still get a gold."That shoul..."OK, so the men might still get a gold."<BR/><BR/>That should have been a <I>bronze</I>, of course.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14637452970276655064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847877.post-1140652564341820382006-02-22T17:56:00.000-06:002006-02-22T17:56:00.000-06:00"What were they doing with large stones and brooms..."What were they doing with large stones and brooms out at the ice pond in the first place?"<BR/><BR/>Boredom, clearly. And just imagine how bored they must have been, to have invented curling to pass the time...<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, both the British men and the British women have now crashed out of the medals chase. (OK, so the men might still get a gold.) So curling mania may die down a little.<BR/><BR/>But that provokes me to ponder why curling is divided along gender lines.<BR/><BR/>Though I'm sure that this is not the only question that'll keep me up tonight.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14637452970276655064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847877.post-1140636949818842792006-02-22T13:35:00.000-06:002006-02-22T13:35:00.000-06:00"Curling mad." Now there's an emotional state that..."Curling mad." Now there's an emotional state that hadn't occurred to me.<BR/><BR/>What really intrigues me is the question of how people came up with this sport. What were they doing with large stones and brooms out at the ice pond in the first place? How did the domestic (brooms) end up out there?Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08200732104876804746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6847877.post-1140575741400326442006-02-21T20:35:00.000-06:002006-02-21T20:35:00.000-06:00Britain went "curling mad"--well, as much as one c...Britain went "curling mad"--well, as much as one can be curling mad--at the last Winter Olympics, as the women's curling medal was the only gold (perhaps the only medal at all?) that we won.<BR/><BR/>So there's been lots of coverage of both men's and women's curling this year.<BR/><BR/>Plus it's been determined that it's not such a recent Olympic sport either: that the 1924 competition in Chamonix was a real event, not just a demonstration. So that's another gold to us, then, already!<BR/><BR/>None of which changes the fact that this so-called sport is simply a cross between housework and skating. Only without the skating.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14637452970276655064noreply@blogger.com