"Mom, I want to be an Olympic Curler".
Wouldn't that be music to a mother's ears?
The Olympics are old news now,
but my post-partaking depression lingers.
Yes curling, got under my scalp.
Even the word, is intoxicating.
C..U..R..L..I..N..G. An onomatopoeia at its best.
It rolls off one's tongue like Rapunzel's
ringlets rolling down the castle wall.
Though the Slovenian winters would be conducive to curling, it is not yet a sport here.
But it is starting to catch on.
Google Slovenian Curling Team on YouTube, and you'll see what I mean.
"Curling is a combination of Shuffleboard, Billiards, and bowling -- on ice".
And as I see it, there are (at least)
12 very tempting
reasons to want to be a Curler.
1. Great graphics potential for your business card
reasons to want to be a Curler.
1. Great graphics potential for your business card
2. Playing with walkie-talkies is always fun
3. Black tights make legs of all ages look good
4. Sweeping is mindful
5. Explaining your work in terms of "coefficients of friction" and "kinetic energy" makes you look smart.
6. Yelling and emotional behaviour is acceptable
7. Picking your piece's color is the best part of any board game
8. You're an "athlete", but without the physical pain
9. Beautiful granite is soothing
10. Curling stones, because of their need to be impact resistant, require no blast mining to produce. Fascinating.
10. Scraping a broom in front of a cheese wheel can never be stressful
11. There is a half time.
12. Men in jester pants can never be threatening
OK, all you doctor, lawyer, writer, artist, businessmen, pilot, professor, pianist, parent, critical thinking Bloggists, comment as to why you think being a Curler would
be a choice job.
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6 comments:
Well,
I am totally embarrassed to say that my little uncultured head has never even heard of curling until your blogs...sounds like a lot of fun though! not quite as dangerous as hockey.
Also...you really should consider starting a permanent blog about something when you get home...I think you could make a second-chance career out of it.
so glad you are BACK
we have all missed them
agree with Tiff in that you should get a perm. career as a Bloggist
Mother at the Oaks. Hilda spent the day there
hope the night goes all right
Jan
Phil said it curling could be a slippery slope
for a career choice
i can think of two important reasons to favor curling as my sport of choice: 1) it is an ice sport that does not require one to wear skates or to know how to ice skate or to be able to get up after falling down when ice skating; in fact, it's hard to beat the curling shoe when it comes to footwear for the aging tomboy (tomwoman) who favors practical footwear. see http://www.hugecurlingsavings.com/catalogoc84f.html/32633029263. In fact, I have to wonder why everyone in Alaska isn't already wearing these; reason #2 for favoring curling as my sport of choice is that we don't have it in Juneau. Thus, when people ask me what I do for exercise, I can say, "well, I was activing in the curling community before I came here, but they don't have it here, so . . ." It works with people who don't know I was born here, anyway, but highly recommend that statement to anyone who is sedentary anywhere. I'm sure there are more reasons to support Silence's curling campaign so I will post them as I think of them.
Must agree wholeheartedly with Liz, I am now officially on her curling team - unfortunate lack of venue prevents my otherwise exhausting practice schedule from commencing immediately.
Will be looking into curling shoes for Juneau sidewalks . . . where it is currently fluctuating between 40 degrees of springlike weather with intermittent snow squalls and 60 mile an hour wind gusts. Love the jester pants but agree about the black leggings in general.
I did watch some curling and couldn't figure out the rules, but couldn't be bothered to look them up. Actually not really necessary to know rules as I think most of the team just has to follow the one at the back who is screaming their head off (wonder what position Silence will be trying out for?)
Liz, let me know when we need to start our condition - OOPS, I think we are already doing it!
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