Another Cultural Question
grannybat84112
grannybat at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 8 19:05:25 UTC 2004
Dumbledore's chocolate frog card tells us he '...enjoys chamber music
and tenpin bowling.' Is tenpin the game that Americans refer to
as "lawn bowling?" Or is that called "ninepin bowling?" I seem to
recall lawn bowling referred to as ninepins in some retelling of the
legend of Rip Van Winkle....
I've been having mental flashes of Dumbledore throwing a large, lurid
bowling ball down a wooden lane toward a triangle of pins that
magically scamper out of the way--and a bench of house elves that
cheers and racks up a new set after every strike. (The saddle shoes
in mismatched colors that American indoor bowlers wear would appeal
to Dumbledore's sense of whimsy.) But maybe I'm picturing the wrong
game.
Fishing for clues
in the strangest places,
Grannybat
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