Via Jason Linkins:
“Sarah Palin is a great friend to the bowling industry and we’re so proud and honored to welcome her as our keynote speaker at International Bowl Expo 2010,” said Steven Johnson, executive director of the BPAA.
I’m crying.
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Kryptik
Palin shoring up that key PBA demo early. Obama’s in trouble now!
chopper
given how bad obama is at bowling, i think palin just found his achilles’ heel. this is good news for john mccain.
GReynoldsCT00
LOL!!! Thanks, we needed that. Think she’ll back out?
funluvn
Three strikes and your out or three strikes is a turkey? With Palin, it’s both.
Jim
Dammit people! If she’s got the bowling lobby can the billiard lobby be far behind? Where will it end? Darts? Badminton? Bocci ball?
The Bearded Blogger
Turn on your TV at 3am, a couple of years from now. Palin will be selling vacuum cleaners that suck as powerfully as she does, or so she will say to the studio audience, clapping as she removes dust, dirt, even dog hair in seconds!
Dreggas
here’s something to cheer you up
Rick Taylor
If I recall right, Obama was roundly criticized for his poor bowling scores during the campaign
trollhattan
I’m envisioning a meetup of Palinistas and a Lebowskifest crowd, and it’s making me smile at the possibilities.
“This aggression will not stand, man.”
funluvn
@The Bearded Blogger: So, the mainstay “Sucks like an Electrolux” is going to be defamed by “Sucks like an Alaskan-Putz?”
Jon O.
What’s the over/under on when she’s going to cancel?
licensed to kill time
Palin is a gutter ball. That is all.
Brick Oven Bill
Obama scored a thirty-seven after bowling seven frames. There are many Special Olympians who can bowl better than Barack. Barack sucks at bowling.
You can get up to thirty points in a single frame if you are good. Therefore, a perfect bowling score would be:
7 times 30 = 210
Barack’s ‘average’ was thus 37 divided by 210 = 0.176
The National Review attributes this score to being out of touch with small town America. In my opinion, Barack sucks at bowling because one-half of his genes were not exposed to the environmental forces of metal and gunpowder during their evolution. These evolutionary forces benefited individuals who could accurately direct energy.
GReynoldsCT00
@The Bearded Blogger:
How about Lawn Darts? And maybe she won’t see the incoming? please, please….
CapMidnight
Sarah Palin’s bowling team has her play goalie.
Sentient Puddle
@Brick Oven Bill:
OK, I’m now convinced beyond a doubt that BoB is a parody.
Kryptik
@CapMidnight:
Best one in modern Bowling to date, from what I hear. Hear about the home runs she stopped in the fourth quarter the last set she played on?
Dork
On Your Snark, Get Set……GO!
…..cuz she appeals to the same “Billy Ray Jones” Three-Names-Name voting bloc as we do!
…..After only 2 throws/signings, she simply splits!
….It’s apparently where she found her husband
…..Similarly, our greatest tool for knocking whites off-kilter involves using 3 holes, too.
Blackacre
Just curious. What would the keynote speaker of a bowling expo talk about? And how would that speech last any more than a few minutes?
GReynoldsCT00
did you guys see this over a TBogg?
feebog
This woman is angling to be the next Billy Mays.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
I doubt she could bowl a complete line. Probably get in five frames or so then hafta move on for the betterment of the sport.
still liberal
BoB, you know as much about bowling and statistics as you do anything else. Since the lowest possible score in bowling is 0, it would be impossible for an average to be less than zero.
Please go troll elsewhere. I hear Right Wing Nuthouse has an opening.
dr. bloor
@Jim:
Calling Bingo games, I’d imagine.
New Yorker
The first thing I thought was how Walter Sobchak is the perfect Palin voter: dumb as a post, obsessed with guns and the military, superficially and flamboyantly observant of his religion……
dr. bloor
@Brick Oven Bill:
Holy shit! Obama’s bowling below the Mendoza line?
BoB–have you ever run into a guy who goes by “Jesus’s General” in your travels?
SpotWeld
She’s probably playing to her strengths here…
Ash Can
WIN! This cracked my shit right up. Bowl Expo 2010. Beautiful.
So how do you suppose these jokers came up with the eleventy bajillion simoleans it undoubtedly cost to book this bimbo? …Oh, wait. Take it away, bowling expert Dick Evans, from that same article:
Looks like The Bearded Blogger called it, although the infomercials may be a lot closer than a couple of years.
SpotWeld
Palin fans at the bolwing expo are going be like the Twilight fans at ComicCon
RememberNovember
@Brick Oven Bill:
can’t wait to see Sarahs 3 point jumper.
10 bucks says she bails after a split.
BoB’s math is based on Trig-onometry.
Max
Remember folks, Ms. Palin was brought to us by John McCain.
He is a vile, opportunistic, selfish prick and because of Sarah alone, should be banished to mocking status.
suzanne
*sings*
take the wingnuts bowling, take them bowling!
Comrade Dread
Does anyone else ever think that perhaps we are living in the middle of a futuristic psychological experiment where our unseen overlords are just f***ing with us?
MaximusNYC
Note to Bowling Expo organizers: Don’t give her the check till she’s actually showed up and delivered the speech.
Jamey
Well that tears it. I’m spending my recreation dollar at the pool hall or roller rink…
Little Dreamer
@chopper:
How nice that there happens to be a bowling alley in the white house, so he has time to work on his aim.
D-Chance.
Lame when compared to this Obamadolatry… “When President Obama goes back to basketball, that will be a sign that we haven’t lost the original guy.”
The Moar You Know
Another strike for the Grifter.
Midnight Marauder
There’s your 2012 Republican Presidential nominee, speaking at the International Bowl Expo 2010 in Las Vegas.
At the Hilton.
Brick Oven Bill
still liberal sucks at mathematics as much as Barack sucks at bowling.
0.176 equals 17.6%
17.6% is greater than zero.
Mathematics is thought, and therefore is eternal, and can be know by all. Thus mathematics is the enemy of modern Liberalism.
Little Dreamer
@MaximusNYC:
and bowled the tenth frame.
Comrade Dread
Breaking News: Sarah Palin announced that she has fulfilled all that she set out to do as a bowler and will be leaving after the fifth frame citing distractions and attacks from the other leagues and investigation into whether or not she crossed the fault line in the first frame.
Little Dreamer
@Midnight Marauder:
I wonder if she qualifies for the Elvis suite.
cmorenc
Will Palin quit after the 5th frame to “take a stand and effect change” and because “only dead fish go with the frame” and because “productive, fulfilled bowlers determine where to put their efforts, choosing to wisely utilize precious time…to BUILD UP and not bowl down.”????
How soon will we be seeing William Shatner bowling on Conan O’Brian?
PanAmerican
Bowling Proprietors Association of America\USBC Bowling Headquarters
621 Six Flags Dr.
Arlington, TX 76011
Now there’s a vanity address that says serious concern.
The USBC bailed on Milwaukee for state of Texas social-ist largess.
Little Dreamer
@Comrade Dread:
We are ALL Truman now!
;)
The Moar You Know
I am left only to wonder which racehorse will be the first appointed to the US Senate.
Hopefully it will replace Joe Lieberman, who is considerably less useful than a horse. One can make glue and pet food from a horse. I doubt the same can be said for Joe.
SpotWeld
Anyone want to explain to BOB how a perfect game in bowling is 300?
freelancer
Cole:
Ex-GF Nekkid ad is back. Thought you nuked her. She launch a bunch of mops at you?
Ash Can
@The Moar You Know: Far more than she’s worth, to be sure, but I seem to recall her asking price being quoted in the low six figures when she started this wingnut welfare gig of hers. That invisible hand of the market can pack a wallop sometimes, I guess.
Little Dreamer
@feebog:
Considering I know how that story ends, I’m all for it.
kay
“Economically speaking for HarperCollins, it’s more efficient to travel by charter, and I am very grateful to the publisher for providing my family and me with this incredible opportunity to shake hands with as many Americans as possible on this book tour,” Palin wrote.
She goes on to whine that her pretending to travel on a bus was reported at all, because she’s a victim.
And mentions her baby, by name, again, because he’s a victim too.
Just pathetic.
Brick Oven Bill
That is in ten frames SpotWeld.
10 times 30 = 300
Barack bowled seven frames.
7 times 30 = 210
Spotweld sucks at reading comprehension as much as still liberal sucks at mathematics as much as Barack sucks at bowling.
Little Dreamer
@The Moar You Know:
Lucky for you, the Hilton has an awesome sports book facility, so you can watch her send a few down the rail toward the seventh pin and then go make your bet.
RememberNovember
@Brick Oven Bill:
ironic, because most of the great mathematicians were spread across the entire political spectrum and not relegated to one pigeonhole.
more Bob fail.
Little Dreamer
@Brick Oven Bill:
That’s a better bowler than I am. Why are you bitching?
I do my best bowling on Pogo!
licensed to kill time
I don’t know why any rational person would give a flying fart about Obama’s bowling score.
Oh, wait…..
Brick Oven Bill
I don’t know why Barack only bowled seven frames. Perhaps he got tired. Maybe people laughed at him and he stomped off.
hummbumm
BOB you don’t know bowling. the max after 7 frames would be
10-20-30-30-30-30-30 or 180, remember to get 300 you have to throw a strike on the 10th frame and then you have 2 more shots so 12 strikes total.
Little Dreamer
@Kryptik:
Wasn’t there also something about her providing interference on a hockey puck or something?
Alex S.
I invested too much mental capacity in the 2008 election, I’ll be suffering from the withdrawal effects for the rest of my life. Luckily, John and Sarah are still there for me to ease the pain.
valdivia
Naked girl ad one again gracing the page John. Luckily I am at home today. waiting for the cable people to fix my internet.
Julia Grey
No, it’s not the “7 frame bowling game” that proves BOB’s a parody, it’s this:
Barack sucks at bowling because one-half of his genes were not exposed to the environmental forces of metal and gunpowder during their evolution. These evolutionary forces benefited individuals who could accurately direct energy.
Since when does evolution — which, let us not forget, his confreres don’t believe in — only take a few hundred years?
Not to mention that he seems to direct energy pretty accurately on a basketball court.
(And BOB, (snap, snap) wake up. I don’t think still liberal was being serious any more than you are.)
Eric U.
BoB isn’t in touch with small town America because they got a restraining order. When I was reading his first post in this thread I figured it has to be a fake BoB, now I’m not so sure.
Brick Oven Bill
You guys need me around. If you hit a strike, then you get to throw two more balls and count those two scores. If you hit a spare, then it is one more ball. Thus, if the first three bowling balls sent down the lanes are strikes, the first frame score is:
Ten plus ten plus ten equals thirty.
If you hit a spare and then a strike, the first frame score is
Ten plus ten equals twenty.
If you hit less than a spare, then you just get that score, which would be a number between zero and nine.
Barack would have knocked down on average 1.76 pins per frame, or around:
0.9 pins per ball.
Barack sucks at bowling.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@Brick Oven Bill:
Most people, without experience or coaching, will bowl in the mid two figures at first. Bowling is one of those things that looks easy but isn’t until you are taught how to do it right.
The basics of bowling, learning the approach and getting the swing down, are things that come with coaching and practice.
Obama doesn’t “suck at bowling” any more than any other person who has never bowled or been taught how to bowl would do in their early attempts.
What impressed me about Obama’s bowling is that he had the guts to try it in public during a campaign, and look bad at it, and keep his dignity intact doing it while the morons guffawed over in the corner.
You, BOB, being one of the morons.
You know what, I can fly an airplane upside down. I would love to take you up and let you try it and laugh my ass off at you when you fuck it up really bad and literally scare the shit out of yourself. Har de fucking har, right?
ChrisB
@hummbumm: No, it’s 210. You get 30 in the first frame for throwing strikes in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd frames, and 30 in the second frame for throwing strikes in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th frames.
Can’t believe I’m writing this but you have to give BoB his due when he’s correct. Well, there’s a first time for everything.
slippy
@Brick Oven Bill: Bill, you suck at everything so I don’t know who the fuck you are to be talking.
Obama is the fucking President of the most powerful nation on the planet. You’re a pajama-wearing cheetos-stained dickweed with more time on his hands than good sense. If you ever pause to wipe the drool from your chin as you troll, troll, troll, you might break contact with your love toy and get depressed, causing your immense sense of self-entitlement to waver long enough that you might actually realize what a chowderheaded bone-brained stutterfuck moron you are.
Molly
@Brick Oven Bill: “I don’t know why Barack only bowled seven frames. Perhaps he got tired. Maybe people laughed at him and he stomped off.”
Or maybe he received a call from his Kenyan overlords telling him to execute on their plan to destroy the United States.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
geg6
@Brick Oven Bill:
You know, I got rid of the pie filter for awhile just to see what BOB’s been up to lately. Apparently, same old racist shit.
Here’s news for ya, BOBbo. I, lily white and of 100% Anglo-Saxon extraction and with more than one 300 pt. game bowlers in my immediate family, never once scored more than 40 in the literally hundreds of times I’ve gone bowling. Never. This despite the fact that I have been and continue to be a rather gifted athlete (race walking, swimming), SCUBA diver, sailor, and marksman. Oh, and I grew up in and live in what could be easily described as a quintessential small town.
Brick Oven Bill
This is because you are a chick geg6. Women are bad bowlers.
Little Dreamer
@slippy:
Don’t hold back now, tell him how you really feel!
geg6
@Brick Oven Bill:
I’ll be sure to tell my two sisters with the numerous 300 point games and giant bowling trophies that.
So…still racist and sexist, I see.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@Brick Oven Bill:
Again with the bum info, BOB. I was once married to a very successful competitive bowler who could bowl well into the 200’s night in and night out. Bowling is not about strength as much as it is about discipline and practice. Unlike golf, bowling doesn’t have a distance component. So women do very well at bowling when they are properly coached and when they put in the practice hours …. just like men.
So, when do you want to go up for that plane ride?
Little Dreamer
@Molly:
Thankfully, while BOB is getting his panties all twisted up over Obama’s bowling score, we can be sure HE isn’t out planning the destruction of the world. I think his version might be more akin to Hitler’s Auschwitz.
licensed to kill time
Speaking of getting tired :
Maybe the jet has a private bowling alley.
still liberal
Unfortunately, this is an equally red herring as all of your other profound thoughts. You stated a bowling average of 0.176. Bowling scores are maintained as averages, not percentages. Again, typing slowly, the worst score possible is 0. If you threw all gutter balls for a million games, scoring 0 for all games, your average would be 0. It is impossible to average less than 0 in bowling. It is also technically impossible to score less than zero on a standardized IQ test, but you may be the exception to that rule.
Shawn in ShowMe
@Chris B
Actually if you stopped after seven frames it would be 190.
By frame the score would be: 30-60-90-120-150-180-190.
Back to you, Chris (Schenkel).
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@Shawn in ShowMe:
Okay, I just spit Healthy Choice Chicken With Rice Soup all over a perfectly good monitor.
Thank you.
Jager
Maybe like millions upon millions of his fellow Americans, the President HATES FUCKING BOWLING. Could be the shoes worn by others, the shirts, the pattern on the carpet, the warm beer, soggy snacks, who knows? He grew up in Hawaii for godsakes, why would he have gotten into an indoor sport!
Little Dreamer
@licensed to kill time:
Shhh! You’re not supposed to notice that.
::thumbs up:: “Good work!”
Brick Oven Bill
Bowling is all about dynamic angles, rotational energy, and thus distances are absolutely critical AngusTheGodOfMeat. Putting spin on the ball creates an ever changing angle.
When the ball travels at an angle over a certain distance, it ends up in the ‘gutter’ which means you get zero points (‘gutter ball = 0’). This is lower than Barack’s average of less than 0.9 pins per ball.
Ask Larry Summers about women and science.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@Jager:
Another mouthful of soup goes airborne.
Great stuff. Laughing my ass off here.
So far my lunch is all over the desk. Oh god.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@Brick Oven Bill:
Yeah, I suppose you calculate the effect of wind on the ball, too, right BOB?
Bowling is about form, and discipline, BOB. Trust me. Even you can learn to do it. If you can shut up long enough to listen to your coach.
Little Dreamer
@Brick Oven Bill:
Spin is not necessary to knock down maximum pins. If the ball comes in between the 1-2 or the 1-3 at just the right angle, the pins go down, no spin involved whatsoever.
licensed to kill time
Palin aide downplays use of private jet
But:
Heh.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
I think he meant to say that putting spin on the ball makes it harder for the batter to hit it.
BOB is inventing a whole new game, Basebowl.
Bad Horse's Filly
And this entire thread is why I visit BJ. Hilarious.
The real question is, how is Palin at Elf bowling? Until you’ve decapitated a few elves, you’re not a Real American™.
ChrisB
@Shawn in ShowMe: You’re right. And thanks for the Chris Schenkel reference.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@licensed to kill time:
This is a win for Palin. She runs for VP, and sure enough, now she is flying around the country on her own jet.
You know, she had to ditch the governor’s plane in Alaska … I assume because it did not have a full bar. Or something.
Anyway, she finds a way to win. I like that in a leader.
Jager
One of my high school girlfriends was a really, really good bowler, I asked how she got so good, the pretty little Air Force brat said, “there wasn’t anything else to do at the Air base in Turkey”!
dr. bloor
@Jager:
Ah, but perhaps Hawaii has nothing to do with it!
http://www.kenyasafari-direct.com/activity/cosmic-bowling-in-village-market
P.S. I like those carpet patterns.
Little Dreamer
@Bad Horse’s Filly:
God I haven’t thought of that in years. That used to be a cool game, back when the internet was still a new toy.
;)
soonergrunt
@Brick Oven Bill: Apparently grammar doesn’t count as something that “can be know by all.” grammar must be liberal.
Christ, what a waste of flesh you are.
Little Dreamer
Putting spin on the ball means it’s going to go somewhere other than the direction you sent it in and you had better hope to be consistent if you don’t want to constantly look like a fool.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@dr. bloor:
Don’t forget the Googie Architecture!
AngusTheGodOfMeat
Another great example of Googie style, which is why Bowling is the great sport that it is.
Molly
Man, we have reached a bad place if we’re getting into a debate over bowling scores.
Here are the official rules of bowling: Go to “Scoring.” I checked several sources, including the official 10 pin bowling rules. however, they are in PDF form or Word form, and I thought I’d spare everyone that.
“The most points that can be scored in a single frame is 30 points (10 for the original strike, plus strikes in the two subsequent frames). ”
Onward.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
Check out the bowling alley at the bottom of this page!
Now that’s elegance, my friends.
Sorry BOB, but your Brick Oven approach to the world is just a little too boring.
General Winfield Stuck
Sarah Serendipity doesn’t actually bowl for strikes. She imagines them, and tells the story.
Jager
Thinking about it, wouldn’t a kid who hung out in bowling alleys in Hawaii be considered some kind of a freak? Everybody is at the beach in the fresh air and sunshine while he would be inside breathing cigarette smoke (in those days) getting pastier by the minute! Winter time in Cleveland or Buffalo…different story.
Molly
And BoB has given me a headache. I know better.
Little Dreamer
@Molly:
At least you didn’t get burned.
dr. bloor
@Jager:
There’s a joke about birthers, Obama’s complexion, true parentage and bowling skills in here someplace, and I can’t quite get the pieces together.
Legalize
I’d love to watch BoB play the president in a game of one-on-one. BoB sucks at basketball.
Bad Horse's Filly
@Little Dreamer: Ah, I still miss Elf Bowling. Nothing relieved stress like that little graphics challenged game.
Boots Day
The total after seven frames is 180, isn’t it? You would get only 20 points in the sixth frame, because it would be followed by only one more strike.
This is much more interesting than Sarah Palin.
Little Dreamer
OT: Don’t go to GOS today, the overload of black and pink next to orange and white will send you into shock!
Sentient Puddle
@Boots Day: But I think the unresolved question we’re all missing here is, are we playing where we simply quit after the seventh frame, or does the seventh frame follow the rules of the format of the tenth frame, where you get a third bowl if you get a strike or spare?
Mike in NC
Some excellent news for the Brick Oven Bowler here: Baba Wawa will gift us with her annual “Ten Most Fascinating People” barf-fest on December 9th. This year’s lineup of media whores includes Kate Gosselin, Adam Lambert, ‘Lady Gaga’, Jenny Sanford, Tyler Perry, and — drum roll, please — Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin!
Little Dreamer
@Sentient Puddle:
We’re talking about a ten frame game, aren’t we?
licensed to kill time
@Little Dreamer: Ok, so I had to go over there and check it out once you said that. Why am I so easily led astray? I blame Obama and his lousy bowling score.
phoebes-in-santa fe
Just a question about bowling and gender.
Wouldn’t men be better bowlers – on average – because strength does count, doesn’t it?
tripletee
@AngusTheGodOfMeat:
I’ve no doubt BOB could learn it – he’s a devout Teabagger, after all. Handling balls is second nature to him.
Martin
@phoebes-in-santa fe:
Not really. Most women should be (or could train some to be) sufficiently strong to control a ball adequately. Bowling is a bit like short-game golf – once you get the power to a moderate point, it’s pretty much all control and consistency.
Little Dreamer
@licensed to kill time:
If someone told you not to jump in front of a moving train, would you, just once, to see why they warned you not to?
Martin
@Molly:
Does nobody have a Wii? Shit, the Wii has done more for basic bowling knowledge than anything prior.
licensed to kill time
@Little Dreamer:
Prolly. If I was a cow on the tracks of Progress, I might.
Sentient Puddle
@phoebes-in-santa fe: If you ask me, strength only comes into the equation insofar as you’re trying to direct a heavy ball to go in the direction that you want it to go. Strength matters, but it’s certainly not the primary attribute to be looking at. Plenty of strong people can send a ball flying down the lane next to them. And then there’s people like me (I’m a fucking twig) who can consistently bowl near-200 games.
Molly
@Sentient Puddle: “But I think the unresolved question we’re all missing here is, are we playing where we simply quit after the seventh frame, or does the seventh frame follow the rules of the format of the tenth frame, where you get a third bowl if you get a strike or spare?”
Excellent point. And in order to resolve it, since we’re speculating on Obama’s bowling potential (or lack thereof), we have to ask ourselves WWOD?
I believe any reasonable person who is bowling a perfect game would truly finish out that 7th frame and achieve the highest score possible. In addition, I believe that the only way someone bowling a perfect game would end said game before its completion would be in case of a dire emergency.
However, I am sure BoB would feel Obama would simply quit after the 7th frame due to his being a Christian, which is a feminine, passive religion. Had he been a Muslim, the masculine drive of his religion beliefs would have made him as competitive as possible, and therefore he would have taken the third bowl.
Reasonable people can disagree on this matter.
serge
Great comments. I can think of nothing to add, unless…I didn’t see that anyone has yet invoked Godwin’s Law. I could do that!
Ed Drone
@Comrade Dread:
More likely.
Ed
Molly
@tripletee:
FTW.
And did ya’ll see the proper use of block quotes above? Slut, maybe, but not an ignorant one any more. :)
Little Dreamer
@Martin:
Exactly!
@phoebes-in-santa fe:
If a powerful man throws a bowling ball down a lane towards the pocket between the 2 pin and the 4 pin, the only thing he is going to do is make the ones he hit go down faster, it won’t do anything to make the pins he didn’t hit go down (which would be about four pins on the right side of the lane). The only exception to this would be if he hit the pins so hard they ricocheted off the side, and even then, the flying pin would have to come back accurately against the standing pin(s). It’s a crap shoot.
Aim the ball at the pocket between the the 1-2 or the 1-3 and the way they fall often takes out more pins than any runaway spinning man-powered ricocheting masterpiece throw.
FlipYrWhig
@phoebes-in-santa fe:
Not really. I bowled in a league for two years recently, without having bowled at all for probably 20 years, and I was firing the ball a _lot_ faster than most of the longtime bowlers, and doing a _lot_ worse. My average was pretty much on par with a woman who was at least 80 years old. She was much more consistent with placement. At least among low-level amateurs, I’m confident saying that muscle strength doesn’t matter much in bowling.
Shell
I’m just wondering. How exactly does one become a ‘friend of the bowling industry?”
Jorge
Don’t know if it was mentioned before, but the best score after 7 frames is 180.
Kthxbi
Comrade Darkness
Wait, I went to sleep last night and woke up this morning, and suddenly the world makes sense? How the hell did that happen?
FlipYrWhig
@Shell:
Maybe the lane oil comes from Alaska.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@Shell:
I think you tap your bowling shoe towards the adjacent stall in the men’s room.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
Me too, I was told that my bowling was just about on a par with an 80 year old woman.
Which is why I no longer bowl.
Well, okay, it’s one reason. Getting the ball drilled to fit this hoof is another.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@Little Dreamer:
Right. Faster is not better in bowling. Accuracy and finesse are often the keys.
Randy P
@licensed to kill time:
Well, since it takes about 6 hours to go coast-to-coast, I make that 12000 miles of flying in 7 days.
That’s “downplaying”?
Randy P
I hate bowling too. In Maryland, a variation called duckpins was fairly popular. I like that better, as it uses a much lighter ball. At least I broke 100 once in that game.
Still, I doubt I’ve bowled a dozen times in my lifetime, and that includes duckpins.
JK
This is good news for Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, and Pat Buchannan, all of whom thought Obama was a sissy because of his low bowling score.
geg6
@JK:
But does she ever drink orange juice at a diner? Because if she does, she’s no better than Obama. Apparently, Real Murkins never drink orange juice for breakfast.
tripletee
@AngusTheGodOfMeat:
Get a room.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
@tripletee:
What?
We live together, actually. We have several rooms, plus an alfalfa field or two. And the trough.
Sentient Puddle
@serge:
You know who else enjoyed bowling?
Brick Oven Bill
God , you are thick Jorge. Using your logic, the best score you could get after ten frames is 270. In actuality, we all know that you can get a 300 score in ten frames. In like manner, in seven frames you can score 210. The final two balls count as part of the final frame.
There is an error in my assumptions however. It is possible that Barack got a spare or a strike. If this were the case (doubtful, but possible), the less than 0.9 pins per ball number would go down.
For instance, say Barack got a spare and then knocked down three pins with his next ball. In this case his score for the spare would be:
10 + 3 = 13 points
But the aggregate number of pins knocked down would also be reduced by three, as those three pins would have been counted twice in his 37 score. His 37 score would have been achieved by knocking down:
37-3 = 34 pins
Yielding a lower average. Now I have to go. Barack sucks at bowling in any case. Have a nice day.
Jay in Oregon
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry.
I’m waiting for her to show up as a featured guest at San Diego Comic-Con between Rob Liefeld and the guy who played “Morn” on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Annie
@SpotWeld:
LOL!
trollhattan
Alright ya bastard, so one ruined monitor in a day wasn’t good enuf for ya, eh? (Runs for paper towels.)
Sentient Puddle
I don’t think I’ve ever fed the trolls. But since I gotta try everything at least once…
@Brick Oven Bill: Pins per ball is a meaningless statistic that nobody who knows anything about bowling uses.
Why?
First throw of a frame: you have a potential of ten pins you can knock down.
Second throw of a frame: your first throw produced a 7-10 split. You have a potential of two pins you can knock down, and because of the way they’re arranged, it’s bloody difficult to get them both.
Two balls, but two wildly different scenarios. Lumping them together into one and trying to present it as a single statistic is moronic.
trollhattan
Because nobody’s mentioned it yet, when she leaves after five frames she’s so keeping the shoes. “7” be her lucky number. Also.
gbear
@Martin:
Not for this guy.
SpotWeld
B.O.B. I’ve put in a call to your mom. She’s agrees that you’re getting all over-stimulated and you’ll never get any sleep tonight at bedtime if you don’t get in a nice nap now.
Now settle down take your medication and have a nice snooze. Mom said it was okay for you to take your lightsaber with you this time if you don’t sass-talk.
If you’re extra good you might ever get to go to the bowling alley this weekend and you can ask all the questions you want about scoring. You can even write your initials up on the big screen.
slippy
I know, let’s see if we can get our mancrush media to focus on the irrelevant skills of various Republican politicians, shall we?
For example, very few conservative politicians have any musical talent whatsoever. I’d like to get a good youtube video of what’s his ass (Huckabee?) playing bass and rip the living hell out of his technique. I’m a bass player with 25 years experience so I have everything I need to make mincemeat out of his sorry ass.
How about let’s see if we can get our Republican senators to do math for us? I bet precious few of them have the ability to do more than add 2+2.
How many Republicans are any good at dancing? Singing? Hell, how many of them have a good drawing hand?
I am sure that these and other questions press the f*ck out of our curiosity while we have both a war and a recession to end, foreclosures soaring, 45,000 people dying every year due to lack of insurance, and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
It f*cking doesn’t matter, BoB, what Obama’s abilities are as a bowler. We didn’t elect him to f*cking re-enact The Big Lebowski you shithead.
john b
i can’t believe i’m talking about this, but 37 pins / (7 frames * 2 balls) = 2.6, not 0.9. if he got a spare or strike or something, that might go down a bit, but BOB’s math is totally off.
Ruckus
@gbear:
That link cost a monitor, a keyboard, mouse and the stinking desk. As soon as I can stop laughing I’m checking to see if I sprayed any soda on my clothing as well.
Ruckus
@gbear:
And I just had to watch it again. As they say in the MC add, priceless. At least I knew not to be ingesting anything this time.
Zifnab
@slippy:
In all fairness, I would be very entertained if Obama could pull that off. But not before he got rid of DADT, pulled out of Afghanistan, passed the health care bill, passed a green energy bill, created a path for legalization of immigrants, and put forward serious banking reforms.
noncarborundum
@john b:
There. That’s better.
Zandar
I got a tenspot says she’s out in the sixth frame and declares she’s the winner because she has the lowest score, so like golf she WINS! Because she’s a winner.
SpotWeld
@Zandar: I’m going to put my money on that she was told it was a indoor sporting expo, which was passed up the line as an indoor “sporting expo” (i.e. a hunting/camping event held inside) and will be a little flustered when she arrives and finds out it’s all about bowling.
She’ll press on with quips and one liners and expect to be given extra accolades for enduring all this confusion with truely “presidential demeanor”
Tuffy
You could say the BPAA really picked up a “spare”!
;)
Svensker
@trollhattan:
Prolly sell them on ebay, going for the “well worn shoe” fetish market.
PaulW
As a (former) card-carrying league bowler, this frightens me.
eponymous
What’s the correct bowling score after 7 frames? Well, first of all, BoB is full of it as a regulation game consists of 10 frames. That being the case, for a score of 210 to occur in the seventh frame, one needs to have bowled a strike in the 8th and 9th frame (as scoring a strike is 10 plus the next two balls bowled – that’s why the minimum number of balls bowled for a perfect game – 300 points – is 12).
If one had bowled 7 strikes on seven balls, but stopped the game there (for whatever reason), the score would be as follows:
frame 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
x x x x x x x
score 30 60 90 120 150 (170) (180)
The 170 and 180 are in paratheses as a normal game is 10 frames (and the score for the 6th and 7th frames would be calculated based on what occured in the 8th frame). But if no other balls are thrown and you want to caluclate a person’s score based on the rules of scoring, then the point totals listed in parantheses above are what you would have in the 6th and 7th frames.
In short, 180 poinst after 7 frames if 1) only seven balls have been thrown; 2) if all balls thrown have been strikes; and 3) if one stops bowling and doesn’t continue to the 10th frame.
Thadeus Horne
@Little Dreamer: I do my best bowling with natural pipestone from Minnesota.
bago
A whole bowling thread and nobody has described the scoring system in terms of n and/or i?
Where mah geeks at?
Of Bugs and Books
After 161 comments, the score card reads 59 comments Palin, 49 comments by or about BOB, and 53 Other (no, don’t ask about the scoring system).
BOB/Other in 2012!
Glocksman
@geg6:
If you weren’t already spoken for, I’d ask you for your hand in marriage sight unseen (though once you saw me, you’d probably reject the proposal :) ).
Seriously though, I worked for over 12 years as a line cook/short order cook (the bowling alley owner ran a buffet as a sideline to the bowling business) during the late 80’s- late 90’s period here in Evansville.
If anyone here is familiar with the area and time, they may remember me as that fat cook who could work magic with chicken and fiddlers at Meadows Inn. :)
In my local experience, bowlers tend to be a very conservative lot.
That said, my location in the armpit of Indiana may have something to do with it.
Heck, pre GWB, I considered myself a good ‘dittohead conservative’ who thought Rush could do no wrong.
How the years and exposure to the GOP wingnut rot changes one…
Glocksman
As a semi interesting anecdote, the guy who produced the Rosanne TV show was from Evansville and chose a lot of local places for the ‘external’ shots used in the show.
The ‘BOWL’ sign at the bowling alley on the show was actually that of my former employer.
If you happen to watch a Rosanne rerun and see either a red ’78 Chevy Monza, a copper ’75 Caprice, a gold ’74 Nova, or a rust red ’78 Olds Delta 88 in the back of the parking lot, that’s my car.
And if you see a fat guy in a cook’s apron leaving or entering said vehicle, let me know so I can sue for back royalties. :)
twiffer
for the record, i honestly don’t give a fuck what the president’s bowling score is. or any other human’s, for that matter. bowling, like pool, darts and fishing, is an excuse for drinking.
licensed to kill time
I’ma gonna roll a strike here to get my reply arrow back. My average is 0.176 on the BoBmeter, shit.