2006-03-22
� 8:36 a.m.
More bowling!
Bowling for Mondays. Monday night�s bowling was�awesome. My bowling league, which I�ve written about before, is called T.B.I.M., which is short for Too Bad It�s Monday. It�s a very well established league, at a 30-year old bowling alley, Centennial Lanes. When the league started, the team consisted of: me, Kim, Heather, and Kim. The second Kim left two months or so ago due to some personal goings-on and the reality that a commitment to a 33-week league is hard to live up to. It is, for sure. I think the only season that�s longer is NHL. 8. Months. Of. Bowling. OMFG. Anyway, Kim left, agreeing to pay out the season and we had to find a replacement right away. Enter Al, my Welsh friend. Al had bowled a total of�[how many was it Al? 5 times?] not very many times before joining my team. This didn�t really bother me since my team is in last place by a very large margin. We�re not good, but we have a good time. Yesterday my team, Split This!, went up against a team called �4� Pins Sakes. Don�t ask me why they quoted the 4, I have no idea. We all bowled well the first game, in fact Heather was the star of the show, rolling a 213!!! Give it up for my bowla sista, yo! Heather�s slowly descending average over the course of this season has been no little source of frustration for her, but last night was magic. I�ve never seen her bowl with so much control. I picked up most of my spares, but I threw a lot of strike balls that ended up leaving 1 pin. GRRR!!!. I couldn�t be upset though, not with Heather�s incredible run. Kim was over average 2 out of 3 games, I was over all 3 games, and Al was over, at, then under. Still, it was a decisive 3 out of 4 victory for us, which we haven�t seen since�well, I�m not sure we�ve seen it this season! Ah, it felt good. Monday�s game was also riddled with great quotes and misquotes. Evidence: (Me, after missing a fairly easy spare) �Too much Head Pin, I needed to get less of it.� Al: �What did you say?� (Me, speaking to Al) �Your ball hooks right? What are you, retarded?� (Kim speaking to Al as he�s getting ready to throw) �Come on, Al! Show us the Money Shot!� (Al rolls, gets 2 pins on one side. He�s laughing) �That had me thinking of all sorts of things.� (Me to Al, same frame) Come on, Al! Aim for the nose! (He rolls a spare) �MONEY!� Then on the way home, I realized another pet peeve of mine. Hyphenation. It�s like this, people. If you�re using two words to act as a single modifier for the noun, you hyphenate, like this: Worst case, we have to cancel the race! The worst-case condition is cancellation. On the sign at a used car lot very near my house were these four words: Nice one owner cars I read this as Nice one! Owner cars. WTF? Here�s how to fix it: Nice one-owner cars. There now, isn�t that better?
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