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Bowling alleys should be made with an incline, so you have to
bowl uphill. This would require greater skill and add a frisson
of much-needed peril to the sport, with the risk that the
bowling ball rolls back down the bowling lane and breaks
your ankles.
Rollerball
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All the entertainment of soccer, but with less violence … [8th of 7, Apr 16 2016]
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uphill bowling [xenzag, Apr 16 2016]
DongPing Lake
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Because I couldn't find Slo Ping Lake [Canuck, Apr 17 2016]
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//the risk that the bowling ball rolls back down the
bowling lane and breaks your ankles// |
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Over here, I suspect that the smarter members of our
bowling fraternity would step out of the way. |
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// the smarter members of our bowling fraternity // |
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Go away, and think carefully about what you just wrote. Go on, off you go. |
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// the bowling ball rolls back down the bowling lane and breaks your ankles // |
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A slight incline just isn't sufficient. I would recommend a curved track, that starts off level, slopes upwards and bends all the way back in a semicircle, with the pins held in place directly above the bowler's head. Failing to throw the ball hard enough could be fatal, adding a much-needed survival-of-the-fittest element to the game. |
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OR you could have the ability to carom the ball off the side of the lane (bumpers protecting the gutters), leading it to go AROUND the pins and then drop DOWN THE SLOPE, hitting them "from behind" as it were... |
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Breathless reporter: "Things were going so well the the Canadian team before three of them suffered a freak bowling injury that spared the French team further embarrassment." |
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Love the visual and i despise bowling. Win-Win. |
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// Failing to throw the ball hard enough could be fatal // |
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Bowling attire would change overnight from polo shirts and
slacks to steel-toed boots and body armor. + |
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Rollerball … doubleplusgood. |
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All the incline-and-bank frustrations of mini-golf with the heavy weight of a bowling ball...assuming it's indoors, so suitable for play throughout all four seasons*...Bun. No question. |
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*four seasons in Canada: Winter, Still Winter, Bugs, Construction. |
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[Ian] It would work for crown green bowling too.
[Sgt Teacup] In the Canadian winter, replace this with
uphill curling. |
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Yes, all you need is to find a sloping lake* to freeze .... |
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* Much entertainment is predicted from watching a mob of mouth-breathing Neanderthal Canucks scouring the landscape for a sloping lake** |
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** Actually, you could just run a Zamboni over part of a glacier, but that wouldn't be so amusing. |
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A bowling version of minigolf would be fun. |
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It's called "snooker" ... |
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Sorry, 8th, no sloping lakes here. However, there is a Dongping Lake in China [link]. |
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I used to bowl, but I gave it up for sex because the balls are lighter and you don't have to wear special shoes. |
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// Sorry, 8th, no sloping lakes here. // |
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Made you look ... hahahaha. |
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// Go away, and think carefully about what you just wrote.
Go on, off you go. // |
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(looks to see where [Max] goes off to when he thinks
carefully) |
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It's a dark place you don't want to be, believe us. Particularly when he's in there, "thinking". |
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But the books of cartoons, particularly the Gary Larson ones, are pretty good. |
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That stuff tucked behind the radiator is the Intercalary's stash of deviant pornography. Best leave it there. He thinks no-one knows, and besides, it's pretty nasty stuff. |
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"That stuff tucked behind the radiator"
Ahh, that's just the decoy stash, meant to be found with only a little difficulty. The good stuff is hidden elsewhere... |
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The 3d track bowling concept would be great for one of the physics engine games popular for ipad. It could be called "English" and in addition to imparting a vector force, would be all about putting spin on the rolling ball such that it would negotiate the turns and curves. |
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I do not know what the english call english. Spin, maybe? I very much hope the english have an equivalent for "body english" which is a wonderful concept. Useful too. |
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// I do not know what the english call english. // |
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Or, it would seem, the importance of correctly capitalizing proper nouns ... |
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Sp.,Gr. "I do not know what the English call 'english'." |
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For your information, the English call it: |
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"This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."
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It's used in bowling cricket balls. Heavy, smooth, very hard, hurt a lot when they hit you. You should remember that. You really should. Think about how much it's going to hurt. |
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// I very much hope the english have an equivalent for "body english" which is a wonderful concept. Useful too. // |
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... and there's that missing capital 'E' again .... after the cricket balls comes the vicious prolonged kicking with the spiked boots. Big heavy boots. Long, sharp metal spikes. Lots of them. Ooooh, lots. Ever so sharp. |
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// Sorry, 8th, no sloping lakes here. //
There must be sloping lakes - otherwise how would people water-ski? |
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By pushing really hard with the poles, of course ... |
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/There must be sloping lakes/ |
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Around here, a lot of water slops up over the edge of the lake. Especially when it is windy, or someone comes waterskiing by. |
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// after the cricket balls comes the vicious prolonged
kicking with the spiked boots. Big heavy boots. Long,
sharp
metal spikes. Lots of them. Ooooh, lots. Ever so
sharp. // |
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I think we know what [8th] wants for Christmas. They
will go
nicely with his disruptor arm and ocular implant. Can
someone tell [Sorta Claus]? |
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It's obvious, we just need to spin a lake so that it assumes a parabola when it freezes. |
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Ice hockey would be interesting... |
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That's not a disaster, that's an all round success. |
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//Wait, I presumed all along we were talking about
Crown Green Bowling// |
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All these attempts to make 10-pin bowling more complex
seem silly when crown green bowling has more
complexity than you'd ever need. The crown means up,
down or up then down profiles available. The asymmetric
weighting of the ball adds a range of bi-directional
exponential-like curves to the potential ball paths. |
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A dozen years ago, after a total thrashing and over a few
pints of bowling club-subsidized bitter, it was explained
to me that crown green bowls shared quite a lot in
common with the aiming of 500lb bombs from a
Lancaster. As if the sport needed any more cool. |
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Isn't that like skeeball? |
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Wouldn't the pins tumble down after the ba ...
+1 |
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Is that that sortof odd summer derivative of curling where
the players aren't professional janitors and have enough
money to afford an actual ball? |
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