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curling is really fun and requires thinking!

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

you cannot convince me that any thinking is required with that 'sport.' sorry to offend, y'all should stick to claiming hockey as the national sport or something.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i believe lacrosse is canada's national sport. unless you were talking about the former czechoslovakia. i think it was their national sport.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought the injuns invented lacrosse? wtf, did whitey steal THAT from them too?!?

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link

lacrosse is the official cdn sport but obv hockey is more important.

curling requires some thinking and strategy. it's not quantum physics but is any sport?

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link

wormhole tobogganing

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

downhill wave-particle duality

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:42 (seventeen years ago) link

strategery

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

multiverse luge

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Seattle is chock-full-o'parks, many designed by that Olmstead (?) guy that did Central Park in NYC. They are lovely for hanging out in, almost any time of the year it is not pouring rain. The best park day from last year involved drinking beer with our kids on the shore of Lake Washington near the Madrona boathouse while the dog (but uh - not OUR dog, our grand-dog) fetched stuff from the lake.

― jaq (jaq), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

that would Henry L. Olmstead, he also designed the park system in Louisville.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Jaq, that sounds like a perfect day! Loaner dogs are good, especially dogs who like to fetch things. That gets old after the first delightful hour.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link

lacrosse is our summer sport
hockey is our winter sport

we have no fall or spring offical sports

― FUCKTHISSHIT (JACKLOVE), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

my place at school is across from a small park/community center and every day there are kids from the neighborhood playing soccer or little league. it's nice to see. i don't really use that park though because it's just a small athletic field and i don't play any sports.

i'm a little park-ed out right now because i just finished a course on public space and we talked about parks all semester long.

frederick law olmsted designed central park. and his sons were in the business too, so they built some of those "olmsted" parks as well.

― the claudine longet invitational (get bent), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link

frederick, why did i think his name was henry? duh.

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Loaner dogs are good

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/343575416_675cee4c85_o.jpg

This is so true. I think I make a better pet sitter/dog walker than dog owner.

I think it was Frederick Olmsted who did Seattle's parks - he had a vision of greenspace ringing the city.

― jaq (jaq), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I make a better pet sitter/dog walker than dog owner.

it usually works out this way

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Since I don't have a dog at the moment :( I don't really go in parks. I just feel strange walking around a park without a dog, plus you see all the other dog owners and they ask where your dog is, and...

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 11:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i spent many a sunday morning this spring/summer waiting for my hangover to pass by sitting under a tree in wicker park with a large iced coffee and half a pack of cigarettes. i'd usually bring a book in case the people watching got boring but it rarely did.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

oh and I forgot to brag on st louis' forest park--bigger than central park I think and full of great free stuff. the history museum, art museum, and the zoo are all there and they are all free!

there was an article in the paper about the lack of greenspace in a booming exurb of st louis, it grew so fast and the city didn't set aside any land....

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yes, I love parks.

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link

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