Hail To Red White 'nd Blue ;-)
Chronocidal Charlie
Here sum yer blue sky back David P. with lil added touch of Tejas. ;-)
http://the-old-gnu-zoo.org/photos/colors.jpg
CC
(David P.)
Thanx, man. Hey, I tossed a 623 series last night.
200-245-178. Not bad, eh? Didn't do no good in
the poker hands, tho. 1st game winner - Aces boat.
2nd game - straight flush. 3rd game - quad deuces.
Best I could catch was Ace-King flush.
Won last week, tho, wiff quad sevens -- $19.
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Chronocidal Charlie
Man do I miss that. All, my *old* *all* *night* poker playen buddies
done went and died on me the past few years. They was mostly all *old*
*AA* farts who had been sober around this area when I made my first
meeting back in 1970 and tole me to keep coming back. It was one of them
who was old "Charlie Odem" that sed the magic words to me way back then
one day when I was whinging to em, "Damn it Charlie, why can't I make
this AA program work for me?" 'nd tole me the magic words that stuck
with me all the way up to 1995, when they come tumbling out of the
recesses of my mind, when I realized that, *drunk* or *sober* if I was
going to *live* and become a *part* of *life* instead of *apart* from,
that I was gonna have to make some changes in the way I was going about
trying to live.
Those words being, "Take the steps Charlie. Just take the fucking steps."
Still think the reason they liked to come over 'nd play poker with me,
was the *huge* collection of desire chips I'd amassed all those 25 years
of "keep coming back" them old fuckers drilled into me.
Life's good. Congratulations on yer winners. Stick with em. ;-)
CC
Tex
<imb...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hey, I tossed a 623 series last night.
>200-245-178. Not bad, eh?
I never really got into bowling that much, but from the little bit I
did and amongst the fellows I bowled with that would have been great.
Way to go. I had one chance at a 600 series and choked. :)
F.H.
> Chronocidal Charlie <c...@chronocidal-charlie.me> wrote:
>> Look whut Momma Nature do while I hiding my head in a puter.
>>
>> Here sum yer blue sky back David P. with lil added touch of Tejas. ;-)
>>
>> http://the-old-gnu-zoo.org/photos/colors.jpg
>
> Thanx, man. Hey, I tossed a 623 series last night.
> 200-245-178. Not bad, eh?
Damn good. Scratch or with handicap? Took high series in a winter
league back a couple decades with a 636 with handicap. Rolled a 268
scratch once with a big soft Manhattan full finger tip.
mikewestvale
What are you two Lebowski"s
Members of the Church of Dudeism and all?
F.H.
Hell yes.
(David P.)
> > 200-245-178. Not bad, eh?
>
It's a handicap league, but those are my actual scores.
I think my average there is about 180.
> Took high series in a winter league back a couple decades
> with a 636 with handicap. Rolled a 268 scratch once with
> a big soft Manhattan full finger tip.
Best I ever had was 9 strikes, spare, strike - 279,
about 20 years ago. In our Tues night league, we have
someone bowl a 300 just about every week, it seems.
Got some real crankers. One guy who works there had
four 800 series in the last year. I was throwing a curve ball
when I first got my urethane Blue Hammer, but have a
harder time controlling it than just a hook. I have a resin
ball now (Ebonite Xcel) & try to throw it straight with a little
hook at the end. Fingertip grip, 15.5 lbs.
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F.H.
At the beginning of the league I was averaging about 140. Snuck over to
the alleys several times a week at lunch time to practice. The last 6
weeks or so I averaged just over 190. That made our team hard to beat
because I still had a pretty good handicap. We lost 1st place by one
pin when our anchor dude blew a 10 pin in the 10th.
We did our sweepstakes in Vegas. Everyone wanted to partner up with me
and I fell flat on my ass. Real oily lanes, ball wouldn't bite. Big
sweeping hook went straight as a string. Ever heard the expression
"horses for courses?"
(David P.)
>
> in Vegas, everyone wanted to partner up with me & I fell flat.
> Real oily lanes, ball wouldn't bite. Big sweeping hook went
We had a no-tap tournament in Durham one time.
In qualifiers, one game I had 9 or 10 in a row.
Strikes, not nines. A couple girls were walkin' by,
lookin' at the scores & I heard one say "Oh my God!"
I qualified, my buddy didn't. Come the finals, there
was so much oil I wanted to quit early & go home,
call the EPA to clean up the spill! Others were
bowling as if it was nothin'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_ball
[...]
Balance
[...]
It's the opinion of many people in the bowling community
that these advances in bowling ball technology have
undermined bowling skill & have made it more difficult for
lane maintenance personnel to lay out fair and credible
conditions for participants. This is because advanced players
using hi-tech balls "need" more oil to score high and might
complain about the radical behavior of their balls on "dry"
lanes. At the same time, less aggressive players might
complain when they can't get their balls to hook. These
complaints have been part of the game throughout USBC
history. It's been a matter of which group prevails within the
USBC - or what new technology comes along next.
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mikewestvale
I got drunk one night and had a strike two lanes over. They had the
nerve to ask me to leave.