Chess on ice. Been playin’ for almost 20 years. If you’re playing lead rock or second and you have to sweep every shot from Tee line to Tee line, you’ll sweep 6 rocks per end for 8 ends, each traveling about 125 ft. 48 rocks per game at 125 feet each is 6000 feet or just about a mile & an eighth. It’ll wear ya out.
I figure it's about the only Olympic event that the use of 'roids or blood doping doesn't give you and edge. When the American team, based out of a Social Club (beer) and mostly middle-aged, won the Gold I knew it was strategy, wisdom and technique rather than speed, endurance, agility and equipment.
Love playing the game. Love watching the game, but I have to turn off the sound when the women are playing because the screeching drives me up the wall.
One would suppose that curling is the perfect sport for an athletic librarian. ;-)
ReplyDeleteLimber. Limber is good.
ReplyDelete"ROC"? Russian Olympic Committee? So, she's a naughty Russian Spy librarian. Ooooh (fans face with hand).
ReplyDeleteNatasha.. come here and love me some more devushka
ReplyDeleteCurling??? Imma wanting some cuddling!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh my God, I'm so hot for woman curlers! Those practical shoes. Yowza!
ReplyDeleteToo skinny, she won't keep you warm on those cold winter nights.
ReplyDeleteShe's hot! And I love curling.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought it was funny calling fat ass linemen "athletes".... Oh well, at least she ain't trans-gender, right?.... Right?
ReplyDeleteNot much in the way of athletics in curling.
ReplyDeleteChess on ice. Been playin’ for almost 20 years. If you’re playing lead rock or second and you have to sweep every shot from Tee line to Tee line, you’ll sweep 6 rocks per end for 8 ends, each traveling about 125 ft. 48 rocks per game at 125 feet each is 6000 feet or just about a mile & an eighth. It’ll wear ya out.
ReplyDeleteI figure it's about the only Olympic event that the use of 'roids or blood doping doesn't give you and edge. When the American team, based out of a Social Club (beer) and mostly middle-aged, won the Gold I knew it was strategy, wisdom and technique rather than speed, endurance, agility and equipment.
ReplyDeleteOh, and she's a beauty, it's the glasses.
DeleteShe is rather pretty.
ReplyDeleteLove playing the game. Love watching the game, but I have to turn off the sound when the women are playing because the screeching drives me up the wall.
ReplyDeleteThe original, and still best, librarian is Dorothy Malone in "The Big Sleep." She created the meme.
ReplyDeleteI have a hard time seeing curling as an Olympic sport. I imagine it's origin comes from some drunken Norwegians skidding rocks on a frozen lake.
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