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Re: Reader Poll
Posted By: Howard, on host 209.86.36.28
Date: Sunday, August 6, 2000, at 18:35:22
In Reply To: Re: Reader Poll posted by Howard on Sunday, August 6, 2000, at 18:24:11:

> > > I think air hockey should be a sport. :-) Or - my personal all-time favorite - Calvinball, as in the one from Calvin & Hobbes. I have actually played this, and it is one of the most enjoyable things you could ever possibly do in your life. Full-contact ping-pong follows much the same rules, just with smaller balls and weapons... er, paddles.
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> > > On a more, eh, conventional, note, I would've chosen gymnastics or swimming were they options.
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> > > -Fob"some people play *organized* sports?"ulis
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> > I am personally disappointed that Ten-Pin bowling isn't in the list as well. (I have to call it Ten-Pin to distinguish it from the othe rtypes of bowling we do in the UK, like in cricket.) It is my all time favourite sport since discovering it at University. I currently have an average of 170 and a personal best of 254. I will get a 300 game one day, I will!!!
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> > Beasty
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> The first time I went bowling, I scored 300. It only took four lines.
> Howard

And did you hear the one about the guy who bowled a 72 and then went to the golf course and shot a perfect 300?
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That was it. . . . . It's called a one-liner. You don't have to answer the question for it to be funny! No no NO! That *is* the punch line. The whole joke is a punch line. That's why they call them one-liners. You have? Well, I've heard it before too, but I still think it's funny. Oh. You don't? Well, you see 72 is a good golf score and 300 is a perfect game in bowling. This poor clutz had them backwards and ..........
Howard