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Title: Days of smoking, drinking long gone at the Brier
Category: Sports
Posted By: Alta_redneck
Date: 2009-03-10 21:42:32
Canadian

[Alta_redneck]

Looks like we got a lot of closet curling fans here. I thought maybe 15 or 20 hits at best. I love the game.

[Regina]

I think some of the ladies teams have a great start if they wanted to make a calendar. I saw a bunch of them at the airport a few weeks ago.......they were pretty hot.

[raydan]

I'll give the subject a hit.

Even though I'm French Canadian, I love curling (must be because I lived in NS).
Even played it for a while.

As for the changing smoking culture:
I used to work in a financial institution, the tellers served clients while smoking. Smoking on buses, during classes in college. I think that our physics teacher was smoking pot during classes.

[Alta_redneck]

Regina wrote:

I think some of the ladies teams have a great start if they wanted to make a calendar. I saw a bunch of them at the airport a few weeks ago.......they were pretty hot.

There is a calender.

But no Canadian women participated, maybe because it was nude with curling gear placed in front, at discrete places.

[GreenTiger]

I can see giving up smoking, but giving up the Mountain Due is a bit much.

[martin14]

Alta_redneck wrote:

Looks like we got a lot of closet curling fans here. I thought maybe 15 or 20 hits at best. I love the game.

ok, i'll fess up.. I like it.. I did it in high school for a semester.
I liked the smoking and drinking too


Guess even curling has gone like everything else..
performance, working out, pyschology.. soon we'll have curlers
testing for steroids. Man, I miss the old days.

[2Cdo]

martin14 wrote:

soon we'll have curlers
testing for steroids. Man, I miss the old days.

I heard a while back that they were testing CHESS PLAYERS for performance enhancing drugs!

[Freakinoldguy]

martin14 wrote:

Guess even curling has gone like everything else..
performance, working out, pyschology.. soon we'll have curlers
testing for steroids. Man, I miss the old days.

Your so right. I still long for the days when Bonspiel was a contest to see who could curl the drunkest and you had to sweep the ashes off the sheet before each rock.

Now the only rocks I got are the ones in my head and my back goes out more than I do.