I miss olympic curling!

[KitchenWitch]

x(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear KitchenWitch...

That's an ice sport, right?

Something like ice hockey?

Sorry you miss it, sweetie........:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

3. Yes

The last Olympics, both the mens and womens curling teams were from Minnesota.

And there were some GOOOOOOOOOOOOD looking men on that team!

:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Ah, I see!

So that's what you're missing! :evilgrin:

[Cabcere]

2. I miss stoned-Beatle curling

as seen in the movie Help! :loveya: Good times.

[enigmatic]

5. I love Curling

Fall down, madly in love w/ it; the season just ended up here and the World Championship was in town last month.

I love this commercial; it's impossibly cheesy (even for 1986), but it's true, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMz_XwbJ8l8

[KT2000]

6. What is it the women

players yell? Can't remember but a friend does an impersonation that cracks me up.

It's something that sounds suggestive.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. HARDER!!! FASTER!!!

[KT2000]

17. Yep - that's it!! LOL n/t

[DeepBlueC]

22. you could answer this

What does "hurry hard" mean? Since I have been in Canada I have watched curling some and most of it I can figure out from context or commentators, but "hurry hard" I just don't understand. "Hurry" I guess means sweep fast & get some speed up but "hard"? How does the skip actually direct the sweeping?

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Hard means put more pressure into the sweeping.

[DeepBlueC]

31. and what effect does that have

on the rock? And am I right to think that "hurry" just means sweep faster? Exactly what makes it curl?

[ghostsofgiants]

32. It melts the upper layer of ice, forming a thin film of water.

The harder and faster it is swept, the more the ice will melt, and the faster the rock will go.

[DeepBlueC]

33. thank you

[ghostsofgiants]

7. I don't. The gold medal team was from here and it was goddamn inescapable.

x(

[enigmatic]

9. I can't believe Goshue dumped Korab

I thought they were going to throw down the brooms and go at it at The Brier, but that's more John Morris' thing..

[VenusRising]

10. 2006 US Men's Olympic Curling Team...

just for you!



And they all have champagne for you!

[KitchenWitch]

15. Awww!

:yourock:

[aljones]

16. those are some HOT men! Can I have one?

[wicket]

36. Is that Dan Jansen in the middle in the back?

!!!!

[billyskank]

11. I know. Where can you get your curling fix?

Could move to Canada I spose. :D

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. No need -- Unless you want the health care...

One of my co-workers here in Milwaukee is on an amateur curling team. Like there's a professional league???

[AllegroRondo]

13. That Swiss captain was HOT!

Mirjam Ott
:loveya:

[AllegroRondo]

14. dupe!

[DeepBlueC]

18. lots here in Canada

Years ago I first met someone in CAnada coming into a bar with a straw broom (The Classic Style) which he called "athletic equipment", I did a full spit-take. I'm a transplant from New England. Didn't know anything at all about curling then, but have watched it since and find it quite mesmerizing, although I still don't get some of the terminology. Can someone tell me exactly what "hurry hard" means?

[Critters2]

19. There's a tiny little town near here with a curling club,

a Grange Hall, a Presbyterian Church, and a grain elevator. There are no other curling clubs in the area, so I have no idea who they compete with. And I've wondered, because the town has a Scottish sounding name (township--not incorporated) and a Presby church...is curling a Scottish thing?

[KitchenWitch]

20. I am not sure - I think it is a "close to the Arctic Circle" thing.

[AllegroRondo]

21. why, yes, it is Scottish!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling#Origins_and_history

I had to look it up.

[Maddy McCall]

23. Curlers have nice bums.

:evilgrin:

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

25. Oh yeah!

all that bending over... :evilgrin:

:hi:

[Maddy McCall]

26. And pushing.

*slobber*

*lust*

:evilgrin:

[Wetzelbill]

24. I was effing amped watching curling last year

Pete Fenson and the boys had me riveted!!!

The curling women are smoking hot. I couldn't believe it. I have looked for a rink to play, I want to try it out.

[Maddy McCall]

27. Here's a curling woman for you.

:)

[huskerlaw]

28. There was a

world championship curling tournament of some sort on, like, channel 213894971 (one of those sports channels cleeeeeeeear up on the digital tier) a few weekends ago. I watched about 10 minutes. I think Germany was losing... ;)

:hi:

[ironflange]

29. I like curling

I've never played it, though my dad was a fanatic. It's a game that's particularly well-suited for TV, in fact, it's far better on the tube than being there live, as you can easily see where everything is on the rings. If you're there, you can sit at one end of the rink and have a good look at half the game, or somewhere in the middle and have a fair-to-poor view of the whole thing.

I agree, woman curlers these days are mighty fine.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

34. Does this help?

[seemunkee]

35. Couple of cuties from the US team

Sisters Cassie and Jamie Johnson