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Buzzhead

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Where does this phrase come from???
« on: August 13, 2006, 01:31:10 AM »
I was just reading another post in which sawbones replied and something about "shooting telephone numbers."

I have heard it and used it before but am unaware of its origin and actually how a number that has to do with a telephone is linked to a bowling score????

Can anyone enlighten me?
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bamaster

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Re: Where does this phrase come from???
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2006, 09:53:09 AM »
It's origin? I dunno, I doubt anyone does.

But it means putting up big scores.  I used the phrase "designer splits" the other day and someone asked me that means... I guess not everyone has heard of all the colorful ways to describe bowling.
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Big Columbia

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Re: Where does this phrase come from???
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2006, 10:07:30 AM »
We use that a lot. It means, when someone is bowling bad and they get something like 72 81 63 9- there ya go I just bowled someones telephone #.

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Re: Where does this phrase come from???
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2006, 10:18:13 AM »
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Some times even the same leave has different terms.  For instance--the 5-7-10.   In my neck of the woods its called the Lilly and in other parts of the country its called something else.  I have even heard some bowlers call that leave a real SOB.
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I've heard the same leave called a "sour apple" before.  Saw one left at the center last night, now that you mention it.
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wulfpackbwlr

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Re: Where does this phrase come from???
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2006, 06:48:01 PM »
I used to hear the 5-7-10 called the Christmas tree
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Urethane Game

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Re: Where does this phrase come from???
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2006, 06:44:05 AM »
Telephone numbers refer to high scores not low scores.
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Re: Where does this phrase come from???
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2006, 01:20:24 PM »
5-7-10 around here is called the lilly.

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