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Old 01-24-2011, 1:29am   #1
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I think I have a new pet peeve, when bowling with my daughter tonite I noticed the other team pre celebrating before the ball hit the pins thinking they where getting a strike. Drove me up the wall all night and probaly why we won. Anyone else ever went through this?
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Old 01-24-2011, 3:13am   #2
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My biggest competition is always with myself.

If the other team is friendly and not obnoxious, i'll give them a high five if they pick up a strike/spare.
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Old 01-24-2011, 6:47am   #3
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I've found that 185 avg bowlers tend to be the worst. Just good enough to put together a decent string, with no real f'n clue of what they're doing. Miss the pocket completely, get nine to crumble down somehow and bitch about it...

"I got robbed!"

"No, no you didn't..."
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Old 01-24-2011, 10:50am   #4
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Hey try bowling here,no competition http://www.bravozulu.com/content/includes/cat.swf
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Old 01-24-2011, 1:50pm   #5
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Those 185 average bowlers get pretty pissy when we bowl them. They totally hate when someone that throws a straight ball knocks them down a peg.
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Old 01-24-2011, 1:53pm   #6
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I haven't bowled since I bowled my best game and my worst game right after.
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Old 01-24-2011, 2:00pm   #7
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I quit bowling about the time my wife rolled a 247 with an 11 pound ball and a dead straight ball at that. Best I ever managed was a 220. Oh, that and after I quit smoking I couldn't take the nasty-ass smoke-filled alley full of chain smokers. My average was around 160 at my best, I sucked.

Our team won the championship consistently though. Won it three years in a row.
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Old 01-24-2011, 2:06pm   #8
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I quit bowling about the time my wife rolled a 247 with an 11 pound ball and a dead straight ball at that. Best I ever managed was a 220. Oh, that and after I quit smoking I couldn't take the nasty-ass smoke-filled alley full of chain smokers. My average was around 160 at my best, I sucked.

Our team won the championship consistently though. Won it three years in a row.
Can you even reach the floor to put the ball down?
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I quit bowling about the time my wife rolled a 247 with an 11 pound ball and a dead straight ball at that. Best I ever managed was a 220. Oh, that and after I quit smoking I couldn't take the nasty-ass smoke-filled alley full of chain smokers. My average was around 160 at my best, I sucked.

Our team won the championship consistently though. Won it three years in a row.
160 is still better than me.

I had a 197 and then a 57 the very next game.
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I used to bowl a lot. I had a partial scholarship in bowling when I was an undergrad.

A lot of what you see is just someone trying to get under your skin a little bit. There will be people that run shots out, turn around after they threw the ball knowing was going to strike, all sorts of antics. I have been known to do a few things like that myself.

If you have a showboat on the lanes, I would tell myself to just smile, and throw my next shot better, and not get excited. I'd strike, then turn around, walk back to the sitting area, and not say a word. "I don't need to get excited, I've thrown a strike before."
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Can you even reach the floor to put the ball down?
My knees bend, yes.
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I think I have a new pet peeve, when bowling with my daughter tonite I noticed the other team pre celebrating before the ball hit the pins thinking they where getting a strike. Drove me up the wall all night and probaly why we won. Anyone else ever went through this?
If this is all in life you have to be peeved about....You are a very lucky man indeed.....Now STFU.......
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Old 01-24-2011, 6:51pm   #13
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This thread blows........I mean bowls...
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Old 01-24-2011, 7:50pm   #15
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I like bowling, I'm just terrible at it.
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Old 01-24-2011, 7:57pm   #16
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never understood the scoring - you knock down 120 pins in a row, you score 300???
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never understood the scoring - you knock down 120 pins in a row, you score 300???
I can't tell you how many times, I've knocked down 119 pins in a game.
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People bowl sober???
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bowling sober is a pita
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People bowl sober???
I never have.
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