Another Cultural Question
bluesqueak
pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk
Fri Jan 9 11:47:06 UTC 2004
> 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 <Big snip>
Pip:
Isn't that just like Dumbledore, though? Over 150 years old, and
still ready to try new things?
BTW, Steve, I think the closest British thing to ten-pin is
skittles. Don't ask me anything about it; I've played it precisely
once. But there's an alley, and skittles (same as the pins in ten-
pin), and you chuck a ball at them to try and knock them over.
It's an old pub game, and like a lot of old pub games, seems to be
dying out as pubs concentrate on the lucrative under 30's market.
I actually like ten-pin a lot better ;-)
Pip!Squeak
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