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Curling NOW! (Original Post)
elleng
Feb 2014
OP
If the only place you could pay your sport was in abandoned alleys you'd want to sweep too... n/t
PoliticAverse
Feb 2014
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Quantess
(27,630 posts)1. What an unusual sport. It looks fun,
but yet at first glance it looks like they are obsessed with cleaning the floor. Where does one play curling? A curling alley?
elleng
(130,905 posts)2. 'Unusual,' I'd say!
Curling was invented in medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)4. If the only place you could pay your sport was in abandoned alleys you'd want to sweep too... n/t
malthaussen
(17,195 posts)3. You have but to ask, Elleng...
-- Mal
elleng
(130,905 posts)5. FIENDISH, Mal!
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)6. I <3 Curling!