Post by: bamaster on July 14, 2004, 12:12:10 AM
Anyways, the lanes are pretty fresh... on what is the "senior" shot to me. Pretty early break point with very dry backends. I'm around 23 at the arrows. I'm all over the lane just seeing the way these two balls act. Playing over the gutters and even 15 10 5... all that. I finish my thng and put my street shoes back on and am about to leave...
when this senior bowling next to me says "you throw a real nice ball there. You see that brown board on the right waaaay down the lane there? That's your shot right there. Lay your ball down on 10 and hit that brown board adn you'll average will improve! Look at me I'm just practicing and I shot 214 playing there."
"Yeah, I think I'll try it next time", I reply.
"You could even go pro one day. Just hit that brown board."
"Yeah, I think that's good advice. Thanks!"
I then went to my car and slit my wrist. I've been doing it wrong all this time! Straight down 10 and hit the brown board. Whodathunk?
I like pie.
Tony
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Post by: Pinbuster on July 14, 2004, 03:14:46 PM
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Post by: channel surfer on July 14, 2004, 03:19:39 PM
lol
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Post by: smash9 on July 14, 2004, 04:01:04 PM
(For you younger guys and you macho men who NEVER get sucked into watching a chic flick w/your wife, the quote comes from the movie "The Way We Were," with R/R of course, and Barbara Streisand)
Post by: mumzie on July 14, 2004, 04:33:03 PM
The funniest one that happened was when I was practicing on fresh oil with my old orange messenger. Definitely the wrong ball for the shot - but I was trying to figure out what I could do to make it work. Practice, right???
This older gentleman bowling a pair or two over from me came over and said roughly the same thing - play this arrow, and aim for that point on the lane - before you know it, you might be as good as that gal up on the board there - the one with the big average.
I thanked him very much for his input. Then he said "by the way, my name is Joe. What's yours?" I then introduced myself. He was real embarrassed.
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Post by: janderson on July 14, 2004, 07:10:40 PM
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I don't have a brown board in my house. They are all sort of tan. What do I do?
Sounds like you're going to need to play the tan board.
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Post by: janderson on July 14, 2004, 07:31:06 PM
Sometimes you can feel the buzzards circling while you practice, their greedy eyes on your game, picking apart every detail of your shot-making skills, finding dozens of ways they can improve you! The worst of them will even follow you into the bathroom, perching on the stall wall, eye-balling you in a most predatory fashion to make sure you are enlightened by their evangelic ministry to make you a better bowler. Often times, I've even heard their mournful cry in the wilderness of the synthetic board jungle, "those guys on T.V. aren't that good". You leap the rows of ball returns like a crazed Olympic hurlder in an effort to escape, pursued by three, now four, would-be-hyena coaches, your practice mentality gone like so many dust mites in a hurricane. Leaving your beloved equipment behind you streak to the parking lot and fumble for your car keys. You bumble and they fall, only to be scooped up by one of the vultures who also has advice on how to better arrange the keys on your key chain... hours later you awake to the soft glow of diffused light softly gleaming from the surface of four softly padded white walls.
Ok, maybe a little extreme...but...Unsolicited help, regardless of the benevolence of the intentions, is often completely unwanted and often obtrusive. Remember that the next time your brain itches to "fix" someone.
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Post by: CharlieBrown on July 14, 2004, 07:51:45 PM
I want pie too.
Post by: michelle on July 14, 2004, 08:20:23 PM
How much did Smurf take ya for during lunch
Post by: Brickguy221 on July 14, 2004, 08:23:37 PM
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Yeah, I've had that happen before - lots of times. When I'm practicing my spare drills, or shooting at 40 10 pins - and someone who doesn't know me will come up and proceed to tell me what I'm doing wrong.
I currently have the opposite problem.....I've struggled so much this year that I wish someone would come up and tell me what I am doing wrong.
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Post by: tburky on July 14, 2004, 08:49:19 PM
tom
Edited on 7/14/2004 8:44 PM
Post by: Strider on July 14, 2004, 11:41:13 PM
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Post by: bamaster on July 15, 2004, 10:05:59 AM
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"You probably have some of the best equipment on the planet, you problem is that you really don't know how to bowl. Instead of investing another $300 in a ball trying to find the "magic ball", go talk to Ray (the house pro) and spend the money on some lessons." I smiled and then left before he could hit me...
Don't you know that Buzzsaws hit harder than a thermonuclear plutonium mega-charged weapon of mass destruction? With a Buzzsaw you only need to be good enough to hit the 6-pin the face... the ball will carry do the rest.
My Buzzsaw is so good my acne went away and my dog now "stays" when I say "stay".
My Buzzsaw is so good I no longer need Viagra and my windshield never gets dirty.
My Buzzsaw is so good my pecs are real buff and my cellular reception is great.
My Buzzsaw is so good all my Internet pop-ups are now pop-downs and I sing great.
*runs and hides*
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Post by: seadrive on July 15, 2004, 10:47:06 AM
Just out of curiosity, what was it about Norm's form that he didn't like?
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Post by: Mike Austin on July 16, 2004, 01:59:51 AM
LOL!
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Post by: MarvinsSkeleton on July 16, 2004, 10:50:26 AM
The best thing is when a really good looking girl is bowling next to you with her boyfriend who can't bowl. You start showing off a little; she asks you to bowl her next frame; you proceed to strike; she proceeds to leave with you instead of her bf; you have a nice night together; go on a few more dates; then you never see her again; the cycle starts over again... well, at least it happened for me
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