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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (62036)	2/19/2002 11:46:17 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Lather.Rinse.Repeat. Gosh, that name looks familiar. Hmm, no it can't be. Next thing you know Blue Crab Jeff will pop up. Curling is way-cool. Two dudes frantically sweeping ice as a 42 pound shuffleboard stone hurtles at them. It just doesn't get any funnier, lol!

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (62036)	2/20/2002 9:22:19 AM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Nice to see you! Someone sent me this about today: As the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2002, time will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. To be more precise: 20:02, 20/02, 2002. It is an event which has only ever happened once before, and is something which will never be repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern was long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24-hour clock): 10:01AM, on January 10, 1001. And because the clock only goes up to 23.59, it is something that will never happen again

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (62036)	2/20/2002 10:46:02 AM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

As a punster might say, "Halo, Lather." Nice to see you having an SI relapse ... same for Holly and others that you have drawn back into Rambi's web, if only temporarily. Curling ... reminds me of shuffleboard, the sport of the Winter Texans who migrate from the snow belt to my South Texas homeland every winter.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (62036)	2/20/2002 2:49:02 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I'm delighted to find somebody else who likes curling. It's one of my very favorite sports to watch. A bit hard to understand at first, but it's the perfect blend of strategy and athletic ability. It's been called chess on ice, and that's not far off the reality. I also love the fact that curlers are not professional athletes as in all the other sports. They are true amateurs, in the traditional spirit of the Olympics. They have jobs, and families, and home lives. They can be teachers, mechanics, small business owners, backhoe operators, a golf pro, you name it, they curl. We're lucky enough to get Canadian TV here, so I am able to watch all the major tournaments. Wonderful stuff!

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (62036)	2/20/2002 10:10:20 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Kinda nice to see taht it's still here. Yes-- SI limps along. People call the priest for last rites, hire the mourners, and start making casseroles for the funeral reception, but somehow it seems to stagger forward for another few months. Many have started other relationships with other sites. UNfaithful, ungrateful wretches. But some of us still plod along, not as vigorous as in our prime, but still loyal. God, I have thoroughly depressed myself. Am going to get a drink. ---------------- 2 and 4 years!-- that seems almost impossible to believe, LLR! The biting is normal, I think, though unpleasant. CW was a surreptitious pincher. At least biting is direct and up front. We never even knew about the pinching until an (ex)friend called me drunk one night after her child had bit Ammo and I announced to him that we were not going to play with someone who bites (AMmo had rings of bite marks from this kid) and we went home. She really let me have it and said MY nasty child pinched hers. I was of course indignant. MY child would never do that. No one had ever mentioned this before! She said her child had BRUISES all over from CW, but that SHE was too polite to ever say anything (unlike discourteous, boorish, loutish me). I was furious. That weekend we went away with some friends and one of their little girls came into the room crying saying CW hurt her arm, and there was this BRUISE. I thought I would die of humiliation, not that I ever admitted it to this other woman, of course. It is so nice to see you here. You always did have a way of getting me talking about the kids.