Guttersnipe

Greetings, and welcome to yet another Tuesday bowling night. Tonight I am heading out to compete in week 23 of 27. More than six (6) months of bowling. Good gravy that’s a long season. At least it’s winter and there aren’t a lot of other options, although my area has managed to escape the weather horrors that seem to be lashing every other corner and cranny of the continent this week.

One day this will be the length of the NFL schedule. Of course by that point tackling will have been completely eliminated from the sport and standard contests will span the better part of 5 hours. Each play will be reviewed by a 147-member panel of team, league, and online betting representatives to ensure once and for all that every single moment of gameplay is perfectly accurate and correctly executed. Spontaneous joy and excitement will have finally been extirpated from the game.

Last week I took the night off bowling to do an escape puzzle room. We finished successfully albeit with some help, it was pretty fun, and I might even do it again. My bowling team managed to win two out of three games and the overall score in my absence, which really tells you a lot. Both about my bowling skills and possibly team unity. We are still languishing in second-last place but are now a mere 4 points back of the next team in line. If we take at least two out of three tonight there’s a chance we could leapfrog into 16th place. Scintillating action doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Wish me luck tonight. You’re on your own on the lanes on league night. There is no awkward, unshaven young man with the skin of a porcelain doll and hygiene like a sewer weasel to provide hints and outright explanations at the bowling alley. We’ll need every bit of cosmic interference we can get.

Of course, try to enjoy your respective nights. And just what do you folks think: Would you rather spend another 10 minutes waiting for an instant replay decision to second-guess a best interpretation or eat a live armadillo coated in itching powder?

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BC Dick
An aspiring nihilist who lives in British Columbia and feels nothing while watching the Seahawks, Blue Jays, Lions, Canucks, and several local minor league teams.
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[…] that I felt like perhaps I should tell a story or two on these rotational Thursdays. Inspired by Guttersnipe, I wanted to tell a bowling-related story.  No, not about the many times I’ve broken 200, […]

WCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iibs7buNwxQ&ab_channel=RealLifeLore

I’ve been saying it. I’ve been saying it for 15 damn years. I was right, and I knew it. They laughed at me, said I was insane. But it was them who were mad! Them! Not I! Hahaa!

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Seriously, this is fascinating. This is the 21st century’s next geopolitical paradigm shift.

blaxabbath

I don’t mean to not ever really give a crap about China or Russia – except that right now they’re both not meeting my demands in their supply chain duties — but is this going to cancel the Super Bowl or prevent me from moving to Hawaii within 5 years?

WCS

Going to be real interesting when China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and Iran all start squabbling over water access in Central Asia.

Five guys with the big one, and the literal Charlie Kelly of the international world. What could go wrong?

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Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

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Brick Meathook

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Gumbygirl

Hanging with my homies

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Dunstan

KITTEHS!!!

Gumbygirl

One cat. Well, actually two but the other one keeps a low profile. The lady in red is a sweet doggo, she’s a Finnish Spitz/Corgi mix.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Evening. When’s the heat death of the universe?

Dunstan

Not soon enough.

Don T

Preferably after I rent an office but during the lease. While riding out the deposit would be ideal.

SonOfSpam

What this Snrub guy said.

WCS

Yes, that will do.

SonOfSpam

Ice Rams with a nice comeback shootout win over the Ice Blue Bombers, Kopitar with 4 goals, with I think is good?

In other news, 20 years ago yesterday I was hangin with Alex Trebek. Wish he was still around (not an insult to Trivia Red Rifle). To paraphrase Ice Cube, I must say it was a good day.

ballsofsteelandfury

Holy crap! I turned it off!

SonOfSpam

Missed most of it myself. TWO POINTS IS TWO POINTS.

2Pack

Evening folks

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Don T

And for all you ladies out there
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Don T

Loved the NFL takes. Crush it on the lanes. Candle, liT
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scotchnaut

The Sewer Wings hated that period as much as Joyce did while writing Molly Bloom’s soliloquy at the end of Ulysses.

King Hippo

Agreed, “Wings” was a garbage barge of a sitcom.

scotchnaut

Sens just barely hanging on to a 4-1 lead vs the Sewer Wings in the 1st period.

The Maestro

I am rock fucking hard for this team, scotchy. This is pornography.

scotchnaut

It’s like the second half of a double feature at [runs over to Google] Cinema L’Amour in Montreal.

Brick Meathook

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

If you hadn’t mentioned the name of the establishment I’d have assumed that it was “Enema L’Amour”.

Senor Weaselo

THIS MAESTRO, I CALL HIM THE BEST SPEECH FROM THE MOVIE “GOON” BECAUSE HE IS GAY PORN HARD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJOL4xoamoQ

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herodotus450

Who cares, who even wants to win anymore we’re all about DRAFT LOTTERY PERCENTAGE POINTS now boys

LongtimeLionsLoser

A South American friend once told me that he had eaten armadillo several times, but warned vigorously to not undercook them. Just an FYI, do not eat a rare armadillo.

Gumbygirl

Can’t you get leprosy from them, or is it turtles I’m thinking of? I used to chase the bastids out of my yard with a rake when we lived in Georgia. They were always eating my plants.

Gumbygirl

And digging huge holes. They have some scary claws.

LongtimeLionsLoser

That’s really funny. There’s a resort in Oklahoma on a lake that we go to a few times a year, and they are constantly battling armadillos (the armadillos eat the flowers around the golf course).

LongtimeLionsLoser

You’re right, although it’s very rare because they have a tiny bit of the bacteria.

King Hippo

Like many other things, VAR is a worthy concept that suffers from a lack of common sense application.

Don T

My solution: get it right through obvious evidence. Even if you wanna go molecular level, 3 minutes tops. Otherwise, is not obvious. Caveman logic could work for reviews. Hell, there have been wrong decisions even after overanalizing and halting the game tempo.

King Hippo

Yep. It needs to be “oh come the fuck on” wrong, and pacing should be a POINT OF EMPHASIS.

Don T

/pours one out for POE

Game Time Decision
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