[HPFGU-OTChatter] Most boring sport (was What's the fun in baseball?)

[Iggy McSnurd]

>David:
> I find cricket dull i the extreme.  And I have always imagined that
> some Scotsman, overhearing that the English had the most boring game
> in the world, was impelled by a fit of patriotic enthusiasm to invent
> golf.

Iggy:

*grin* A little bit of trivia here about the origin of the name "golf."

G-entlemen
O-nly
L-adies
F-orbidden

(Betcha didn't know that, eh?)

> David:
> The BBC does its bit to keep audiences in a permanent state of torpor
> by allocating large blocks of programming from time to time to the
> laughably named 'world' snooker championships (contestants have been
> known to hail from as far away as Ireland).  That these are held in
> Sheffield tells the prospective viewer all he needs to know.

I knew this once... I think...  but what IS snooker?  (And what's Sheffield
have to do with it?)


Iggy McSnurd
(who lives in northern Alabama now, having moved from the coast in Central
California.)