Another Cultural Question

davewitley dfrankiswork at netscape.net
Fri Jan 9 00:02:03 UTC 2004


Grannybat wrote:
> 
> 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?" 

(Image of wooden alley snipped)

> But maybe I'm picturing the wrong 
> game. 

No, I think you are picturing the right game.  I had always thought 
of tenpin bowling as an American import here, though!  You know, as 
played by Fred Flintstone and Homer Simpson.  Is that not with ten 
pins?

David





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