just a tid bit of time here...bowling tryouts are on the 18 - 21 of this month...soon...and i need to check the stuff so here i go
Good luck Tim!! You'll do great!!! (((hugs!!!))) I love the dark faerie that's your avatar! :whitekitty:
What kind of bowling? It can't be cricket because he is writing from the U.S.A. It could be rounders (baseball).
Uhmm I think it's Bowling - bowling. You know indoors with those 10 white cones to get down with a ball that have 3 holes in it for your fingers. ... erhh. does that makes any sence???
Um it's sometimes called Ninepins or Tenpins I think?? Depending on what version you're playing and how many pins you use... We use 10 pins at the end of a polished wood runway that you roll the hard heavy ball down, trying to knock all the pins down. It has a "gutter" on either side of where the ball rolls, so if you don't roll it straight and it goes off to the side, you can't knock ANY pins down! If you don't knock ALL the pins down, you still get points for the pins you DO knock down. You get two tries on your turn to play. If you knock ALL the pins down first try, it's called a Strike, and if you knock some down first try, but get ALL the rest the second try, that's called a Spare. Both get you extra points.
Yes that's Bowling. lol. And the translation in my eng-swe dict. says the same. Tim??? What is it you really mean???
If he's in Las Vegas Nevada, that's in the USA, my cousins live there! So what he calls Bowling should be the same as I've tried to describe to Phillip! :whitekitty:
Is it this you mean as Bowling Fae? Because that IS bowling to me. And to my dictionairy, which actually also have the word tenpins as an amer. expression. Oooh I feel SO stupid today i seem to not understand ANYTHING! I think i go and hide soemwhere. :(
Yes, that's what I mean as bowling Nina. Phillip is trying to figure out what bowling is, I guess he either never heard of it, or knows it as another name. Nobody I know calls it Tenpins, I always thought that was a European name for it but I've no idea if they still call it that anywhere! Don't run off and hide Nina!! :bunny: :whitekitty:
Lol Fae. We are talking about the exact same game here. :classic: Bowling has always had that name here.
We have a few rinks around here and they do call that bowling. The word has different connotations depending upon how you use it. It is not that tremendously popular here - I don't think it is anywhere near as popular as in the U.S.A. I guess that that is what he meant. My father used to bowl. He would look out of the front bedroom window and could just see the 'green' and whether or not his friends were there. If any of them were then, very often, he would collect is 'woods' and trot across. That meant he was gone for a couple of hours. No drinking. That is a modern thing and is, in fact, quite unnecessary to enjoy a social event. Do they have that kind of bowling in the U.S.A.? You need a big square of decent grass, either flat or rising to the top in the middle (a 'Crown' green). The balls which you use are wood and, very often, weighted on one side so that they describe an arc when you 'bowl' them.
Philip. This sounds awfully alike the french Boule. At least to the name. And there is this game with wodden balls and a pin with a crown on, I don't even remember the name right now. It sems its a matter to get others bowls out and get as close you can to the pin. Anyway neither is what we call bowling. It's very interesting how similar names can means so different things.
I'm glad you could figure out my description Phillip. I don't think I've ever heard of the game you describe though, it sounds closest to what we call Golf here, where you put a small wooden ball up on a little wooden post and whack it with a Golf Club, some have wooden tips where it hits the ball, and some have metal ones. They try to get the ball to go across the lawns and greens, and around or over or through obstacles, and into a small hole in the ground marked with a flag. A Golf Course has 18 Holes, and how many times it takes you to hit the ball before it goes in each hole is counted for points, the fewer hits, called "Par", the better the score!
That type of bowling came out before golf, its like when we created Football out of Rugby. They have some simularities, but are also a lot different. A bowling green: This is what I'm thinking of: http://www.scottishsport.co.uk/bowling/lawnbowls.htm
