[thechat] Curling
Judah McAuley
judah at wiredotter.com
Thu Feb 21 20:51:01 CST 2002
Martin wrote:
> Yay - we got our first gold since 1984... and it's an
> all Scottish team!
You confused me for a minute. I was thinking to myself, "Scotland
didn't win a gold medal in curling. Great Britan did." <pause> "Oh
yeah." I keep forgetting that Scots think of themselves as part of
Great Britan. Do you think that Scotland will declare independence
anytime soon?
> Dull curling stat: there are only 1.5m curlers in the world,
> and 1.2m of them are Canadian.
I'm going to petition our local ice rink to try and set up curling
times. I think it would be really neat. I've always wanted to try it
out. Great physics.
Judah
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