[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Another Cultural Question

[Kathryn Cawte]

David


>
> 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?
>

K

You're totally right - and it is an American import afaik, but not a *new*
American import. It's been well enough known since the late seventies that
The Professionals (OK please no comments on my taste in TV programmes, I
have a thing for Martin Shaw, despite the bubble perm) had a whole episode
centring around a bowling alley (although admittedly neither of the
characters knew how to play and were applying a version of darts scoring to
the game <g>) without feeling the need to explain it to the audience. Of
course the writer's opinion of bowling may have been shown by the fact that
there was a nuclear bomb big enough to wipe out most of London being planted
in the bowling alley ;)

K
*who is demonstrating that she can be obsessive and fan girl like about
things other than HP*