The stone 8 I've left twice is much worse on the emotions. I dunno, the 3 stone 9's were unpleasant too. I'd rather have thrown it in the gutter before the arrows than to feel like I made a great shot and just got BF'd out of it. In fact, next time I think I will just chuck the POS in the gutter and forget about it!

God (if he/she exists) is a cruel *******!

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Internet Tough Guy

Cyberspace Sheep Lover

I don't know if I would classify this as embarassing or not, but in my scratch league last year, I bowled a 300 game with a couple of brooklyn strikes.  The oil pattern in this league doesn't have a whole lot of hold, so it takes just a slight miss left or a slighly early laydown for it to occur. It was kind of embarassing to have all these people come down and congratulate me for something that was pure luck.  The other 300 I shot all the shots were in the pocket, I just tripped a couple of 4 pins.

There are a bunch of people that don't think I should be embarrassed at this and this past Tuesday when I got the ring, part of me didn't want it.  In hindsight, this was probably just silly because the way the shot breaks down it that league (basically no hold) unless you're a fluffer or a huge cranker. Oh well, at least the last 4 were dead flush.

Last year I was watching my nephew bowl in his high school bowling and a kid a few lanes from him was trying to get a 7 pin. Well the ball went in the gutter and bounced out and busted the floursent lights that lit up the pins. The sound of the lights busting made alot of people jump a little.

A few years ago, I watched an older guy with a down and in shot run the front 11.  12th ball came in just a little light and left the 5-7-10.  Normally in our house when someone leaves the Lilly, there's a bunch of jeering and clapping not so much this time as people weren't sure how to react to this one. Pocket hit (and this was when they were still giving out all the rings) and didn't get a ring for it.

Personally, one time when I had the front 11 I swung my 12th out and "crushed" the pocket.  I even did a little two-step walkout and an arm dig as it hit.  instead of going down, the dang 10-pin got slapped and slid perfectly upright to just behind the 5-pin spot.  There were a couple of groans, but as it were, quite a few people who knew me were laughing awfully hard at the result.  The only thing better woulda been if someone got it on their phone-cam.  Turned out to be the only 299 I've thrown so far.  -)