Many different phrases are used by my teams, especially on Thursday night.

"Just a bit outside...."...for missing badly...from Major League. (We use any number of lines from Major League. Okay..we're ill.)

"Well take my squeaky toy"...for doing something unusual like picking up a split or getting a strike when you're being tapped left and right...from Chicken Little.

"That'll teach you to hit the pocket."...when you've just been tapped.

"Nobody misses a five pin...except Dan Perez."...in honor of a former bowling mate who couldn't hit that pin for anything...and he averaged in the 190s.

"Come back here and sit down."...after a strike.
"Come back here and sit down...and think of what you've just done."...after getting tapped.

"The hit man"..Mark....throws without a thumb and get's tremendous revs on the ball....has yet to have a 300 but so many 289's and 279's as to be riduculous. Hates the nine pin...averages 198.

"How many taps did you have?"...answer 10...for Mark...all spare game...never thought to see that.

"Mitchy the kid..bang bang."..Mitch....from City Slickers...used after he gets a strike..average 205

"Little Chucky Nimsk"...for me after a string three or more. (average 195..and I'm fourth on my team!)

"You want me to take him outside...and kick the (censored) out of him!"...for any bowler on the opposite team who is stringing strikes...from Major League.

"Vaugh has walked the bases loaded on 12 straight pitches...how can they lay off pitches that close."...when you can't hit the broadside of a barn door...from Major League.

"My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die...(earth scum)."....from Princess Bride (with an assist at times from Spaced Invaders)...

Oh...and any number of Andrew Dice Clay nursery rhymes. Okay...we are the most politically incorrect team in the league of 32 teams. And we're proud of it! We also won the first half.

Chuck



Edited on 3/7/2007 1:12 PM

We say some:

"This guy is a Vader": -  it started with "Dart Vader", obviously after the Star Wars character.  It means a guy who points it from the corner, usually throwing hard with no hand.  So after these guys open with the first 5, and we are leaving stone 10's, and 7's...we usually say to each other: "do you believe this vader?"

"That was a nectarine": - started with a shot that's "not even close", then went to a "N.E.C.", which stands for not even close, then just "a nectarine".

other vocab that you all probably use:

"a worker" - when you strike in the 9th to set up the 10th

"a mixer" - light hit

"fluffed it" - when you don't hit the ball, just dump it

We have one for openning

"Give him the beaver" and make like a beaver face by
showing your two front teeth.

When hitting flush and leaving a stone 9 or 10 pin -"may I have another?"
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"I do desire that we may be better strangers."  Willie the Shake, As You Like it(III,ii)
"I'm capable of being just as sorry as you are, Dimitri."

" No Begging" When that light hit leaves a weak 10 pin or flat 4

" There were blanks in that gun" When you leave a weak one pin leave!
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If I could only bowl my weight, I still would not average 200.   But hey I still damm sexy!

"Do you need some kleenex's to wipe that off with? cause that thing hit like a booger. . ."- When you leave a flat ten or 5 pin.

"Nuts and Bolts, you got SCREWED"- solid 7,8,9,10(any of these)
"Bobby Brown"- when a hit comes in REALLY high and strikes. . .
"Stand up and Fight!!!"- when someone you dont want to strike leaves one and it wobbles a lot.
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Pimpin ain't easy-it's mandatory.

When you leave a solid 8 pin(righty),

Of course the bowler already has a bad attitude for leaving it, but you walk up to him and tell him the adjustment for leaving 8 pins.....is to move your eyes a quarter board, pause a second as he glares at you, then say ....now not your feet(as you wave off the feet motion)...just your eyes, (as you point to your eyes). It will irk them at first, but before long you will hear the quarter board with your eyes comment everytime a stinger 8 is left. Some will actually ask you which way with your eyes, to which you say...doesn't matter. Probably best you do that with guys that you know or someone you percieve as calm first.

Al