Challenge

[ko king]

[QUOTE=Tedlark] I select bowling as my choice of game, a standard 10 frame round would be sufficient.

A game for wusses.[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure that I would label bowling as a game for wusses but it is fairly easily to become pretty good at. I've played just about every sport and in my opinion the hardest game to play by far is golf. It didn't take me long to get my bowling average up to just over 200 per game.

[Casino Knight]

Anyone remember the Usenet Wars on alt.vacations las vegas? Berman V. Chuck

[Eduardo]

Bowling is much less lucrative than video poker. In fact, almost all the time it has a zero percent return. So the best way to lose the least money in bowling is to not play at all.In fact the only time I have ever made money bowling was a bet against a 1-legged accountant who I tricked into playing by tucking my arms into my shirt and convincing him I didn't have any.

[DaBurglar]

I'm not sure that I would label bowling as a game for wusses but it is fairly easily to become pretty good at. I've played just about every sport and in my opinion the hardest game to play by far is golf. It didn't take me long to get my bowling average up to just over 200 per game. Totally agree.....I can bowl straight from my wheelchair, and I can actually have some decent games.....My highest score ever was 217 a couple years ago, and my average between the years 2008 thru 2015 (i.e. I played 33 games total during that time....obviously i am not a serious bowler, even from a handicapped bowler perspective, and I only played  in the last 9-10 years because I was out with friends who all wanted to bowl and I did not want to be a wet blanket on the fun) was 157....which is pretty mediocre, even crappy by the standards of serious or even semi-serious amateurs like Ted probably is......BUT I guarantee I can give Ted a far better contest in his chosen game of Bowling than he ever could playing some of my top games, like chess or wheelchair basketball or darts!    I bowled a lot more when I was in college and shortly after, about 20+ years ago!And of course, if Ted were to exhibit some chivalry and agree to bowl from the seated position, I'd clobber him!For anyone curious, the way I bowl from my wheelchair is simple....I position my chair right at the edge of the line, lock my brakes and then simply use my arms to roll the ball down the alley!!    I cannot obviously put any kind of "spin" on my balls, and as such my first ball down the alley is the most important, because if I can consistently knock 7 or 8 pins down while keeping the remaining 2 or 3 pins tightly grouped together, I can accrue spares fairly often!   I only have bowled one actually "strike" in my entire life though.....I am better at candle pin bowling (the smaller ball is easier for me to control given my limited ability and I can spin it a little when necessary!) ....  Anyhow I am better at candle pins, or at least I was back in my late teens and early 20s, since its been a good twenty years since I last did candle pin!   In fact I am not even sure if candle pin is still around.....is it???

[DaBurglar]

Anyone remember the Usenet Wars on alt.vacations las vegas? Berman V. Chuck

Nope....what exactly is this CK???

[Carcounter]

Is candle pin also known as duck pin? Have only seen in in the northeast.

[Onenickelmiracl]

[QUOTE=Onenickelmiracl]I thought you found Jesus Daburglar? This is so childish. Why not just offer the challenge to anyone who wants it. The bet will not be enforced, so only you can lose, if you intend to honor the duel. Your nemeses can just take a free roll against you. ??????You know, its one thing to have different, even totally opposite opinions and feelings about certain issues, but its another thing entirely to use a person's beliefs or principles in a totally cynical, pointless potshot like you just did.....What the ____ does my religion have to do with any of this?     What exactly is "Childish", other than your own POST quoted above???     What free roll?I offered a very simple straightforward solution to this ongoing absurd situation, which is entirely the fault of the so called "nemesis"......what happens and has been happening is I make a post about a topic or subject that I feel like posting, and then one of the first, perhaps ONLY responses I will get will be Tedlark simply derailing, destroying, disrupting or otherwise killing the thread before it goes anywhere.Whats wrong with that Picture???  Try and train your highpowered perception on that if you would please, sir......By the way, I just took a "break of several days" from posting on this forum, which in and of itself is absolutely no big deal whatsoever.....except for the fact that Ted chose to make it a "big deal" in a post a few days back where he seemingly touted his "ability" to NOT POST as some sort of holy act.     Flipping ridiculous and stupid obviously, but I guess that is where we are at.....Anyway, if Ted no longer wants to find a specific game here on the menu of optional games to have a contest/challenge, so be it......but this BullShiiite of his has been totally exposed for all to see, and if he persists, then that meets the unequivocal definition of "childish", which I have pointed out previously many times......[/QUOTE] You found Jesus you said, and stopped playing video poker iirc, yet here you are offering a duel to solve a problem. Doesn't sound like turning the other cheek or enlightened in any way whatsoever. Just seems like giving into all impulse and temptation you can, with a dose of revenge. I might be misunderstanding Webman, but I took his response to mean your challenge would not be enforced, and the honor system would be the means of enforcement. That's why I thought it was a free roll, either party could reneg if so chosen. My opinion, the inmates are running the asylum here almost literally. I just ignore the posts of those toxic and ill for the most part. This isn't real life here, don't take it seriously.

[billryan]

I've seen mini bowling in a few bars upstate NY but never heard it called anything but mini-bowling.

[DaBurglar]

  You found Jesus you said, and stopped playing video poker iirc, yet here you are offering a duel to solve a problem. Doesn't sound like turning the other cheek or enlightened in any way whatsoever. Just seems like giving into all impulse and temptation you can, with a dose of revenge. I might be misunderstanding Webman, but I took his response to mean your challenge would not be enforced, and the honor system would be the means of enforcement. That's why I thought it was a free roll, either party could reneg if so chosen. My opinion, the inmates are running the asylum here almost literally. I just ignore the posts of those toxic and ill for the most part. This isn't real life here, don't take it seriously.Are you critical because you yourself are a christian and my apparent hypocrisy bugs the crap out of you?   Or are you just an irreligious, atheist who gets off on pointing out the faults of others who divulge that they are religious, for no reason or purpose other than the sheer joy of doing so?Or Are you genuinely in fear for my soul or something?This website is NOT the same as casino gambling, challenges and contests between two people are the norm.....this is not like plopping 500 bucks in a machine in AC or Vegas and the resulting iniquity ensuing......I DO NOT take it "seriously" like the way you portray or insinuate.....the OTHER person is guilty of that and there are reams of proof to that effect if you want to bother to look into it.....this challenge I proposed was not the  "heresy" or "Sin"you are attempting to claim....talk about taking things too seriously.