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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