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The British are coming!
Topic Started: Apr 9 2010, 12:24 PM (255 Views)
John Galt
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Guess who's leading at the Masters?
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John D'Oh
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I can hardly contain my excitement.

Go....er....English....er.....golfing guy! Hit that little ball into the hole!
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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John Galt
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Didn't you guys invent the sport?

Oh...maybe you didn't. From wikipedia:

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The origin of golf is unclear and open to debate. Some historians[3] trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, in which participants used a bent stick to hit a stuffed leather ball. One theory asserts that paganica spread throughout Europe as the Romans conquered most of the continent, during the first century B.C., and eventually evolved into the modern game.[4] Others cite chuiwan ("chui" means striking and "wan" means small ball) as the progenitor, a Chinese game played between the eighth and 14th centuries.[5] The game is thought to have been introduced into Europe during the Middle Ages. Another early game that resembled modern golf was known as cambuca in England and chambot in France.[6] This game was, in turn, exported to the Low Countries, Germany, and England (where it was called pall-mall, pronounced “pell mell”). Some observers, however, believe that golf descended from the Persian game, chaugán. In addition, kolven (a game involving a ball and curved bats) was played annually in Loenen, Netherlands, beginning in 1297, to commemorate the capture of the assassin of Floris V, a year earlier.

According to the most widely accepted account, however, the modern game originated in Scotland around the 12th century, with shepherds knocking stones into rabbit holes on the current site of the Old Course at St Andrews.[7]


I guess you can blame it on the Romans, the Chinese, or the Scots....
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sue
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John Galt
Apr 9 2010, 12:33 PM
I guess you can blame it on the Romans, the Chinese, or the Scots....
I believe the Scots are the preferred target.
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Mikhailoh
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John D'Oh
Apr 9 2010, 12:29 PM
I can hardly contain my excitement.

Go....er....English....er.....golfing guy! Hit that little ball into the hole!
I don't think you like anything but scotch and gettin' wooly. :lol2:
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Others cite chuiwan ("chui" means striking and "wan" means small ball) as the progenitor, a Chinese game played between the eighth and 14th centuries.


How about a round of Striking Small Ball?

Sounds like Engrish to me.
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John D'Oh
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Apr 9 2010, 01:21 PM
John D'Oh
Apr 9 2010, 12:29 PM
I can hardly contain my excitement.

Go....er....English....er.....golfing guy! Hit that little ball into the hole!
I don't think you like anything but scotch and gettin' wooly. :lol2:
I like lots of things. Watching pudgy men with truly horrendous dress sense walk around a big field hitting a little ball into a little hole is not one of them. Why don't they just put the freaking ball in their freaking pocket, carry it over, and drop it in the hole?

Failing that, why don't they concrete over the damn courses, with the golfers still on them, and then drive big honking monster trucks all over the crowds. Now, THAT would get my attention.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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John Galt
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I like lots of things. Watching pudgy men with truly horrendous dress sense walk around a big field hitting a little ball into a little hole is not one of them.


You mean this doesn't appeal to you?

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CHAS
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golf ....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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Mark
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Mark
Apr 9 2010, 10:07 PM
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