On 2/21/2014 10:52 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 2/21/14, 10:39 AM, True North wrote:
History has been made!



A sport to be taken seriously! About two decades ago, I was in Thunder
Bay, Ontario, in January. It was below zero when our plane landed, and
the snow banks were humongous. I spent three days there. The hotel's TV
only had three channels, and every channel was broadcasting live from a
bigtime curling tournament somewhere in Canada. I had very little
offtime when I was, but I did watch about a half hour of curling, and
was fascinated by the special words and terms and descriptions of what
was taking place, especially when the "finesse" aspects of the game were
being described. It sort of reminded me of bocce and shuffleboard.

It seems like an amateur sport, with no highly paid professionals. If
that is true, then it surely is appropriate for the Olympics, which
these days is overrun with professional athletes. Isn't the U.S. Hockey
Team comprised of professional, highly paid National Hockey League players?

What's in Thunder Bay besides a power plant?

On 2/21/14, 12:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:04:46 -0500, HanK wrote:

On 2/21/2014 10:52 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 2/21/14, 10:39 AM, True North wrote:
History has been made!



A sport to be taken seriously! About two decades ago, I was in Thunder
Bay, Ontario, in January. It was below zero when our plane landed, and
the snow banks were humongous. I spent three days there. The hotel's TV
only had three channels, and every channel was broadcasting live from a
bigtime curling tournament somewhere in Canada. I had very little
offtime when I was, but I did watch about a half hour of curling, and
was fascinated by the special words and terms and descriptions of what
was taking place, especially when the "finesse" aspects of the game were
being described. It sort of reminded me of bocce and shuffleboard.

It seems like an amateur sport, with no highly paid professionals. If
that is true, then it surely is appropriate for the Olympics, which
these days is overrun with professional athletes. Isn't the U.S. Hockey
Team comprised of professional, highly paid National Hockey League players?

What's in Thunder Bay besides a power plant?

Paul Shaffer's house.


The musician?

I had fun up there, even though we were really snowbound. Went ice
fishing on the Great Lake, watched guys hired by insurance companies
climb up on roofs to sweep off the snow, ate some good pancakes at a
Swedish breakfast place, listened to a lot of fascinatingly different
accents, met the dogs on a sled team, et cetera.

On 2/21/2014 12:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:04:46 -0500, HanK wrote:

On 2/21/2014 10:52 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 2/21/14, 10:39 AM, True North wrote:
History has been made!



A sport to be taken seriously! About two decades ago, I was in Thunder
Bay, Ontario, in January. It was below zero when our plane landed, and
the snow banks were humongous. I spent three days there. The hotel's TV
only had three channels, and every channel was broadcasting live from a
bigtime curling tournament somewhere in Canada. I had very little
offtime when I was, but I did watch about a half hour of curling, and
was fascinated by the special words and terms and descriptions of what
was taking place, especially when the "finesse" aspects of the game were
being described. It sort of reminded me of bocce and shuffleboard.

It seems like an amateur sport, with no highly paid professionals. If
that is true, then it surely is appropriate for the Olympics, which
these days is overrun with professional athletes. Isn't the U.S. Hockey
Team comprised of professional, highly paid National Hockey League players?

What's in Thunder Bay besides a power plant?

Paul Shaffer's house.

And who is Paul Shaffer?