Is it just me or is Women's curling full of good looking women?....

[Wetzelbill]

This girl is one of the U.S. curlers. But, every match I've watched the different teams all have a few lookers on them. Who would have known?

I may need to take this game up. I can't understand what the hell they are doing, but it looks fun anyway.

[GOPisEvil]

1. It's not just you.

:)

[Wetzelbill]

2. thank Bukowski

I thought I was going nuts or something. I wake up about 5 AM so I can watch curling. At least, I know that there is honor in my madness. :)

[GOPisEvil]

4. I caught some of that this morning, too.

One country's women's curling team put out a calendar. The Swedes, maybe? I can't recall.

[Wetzelbill]

9. yes, I heard something like that

damn beautiful people are taking over everything nowadays. They need to throw us mere mortals a bone or something. :)

[Richard Steele]

15. Multi-teammember calendar; currently SOLD OUT.

Info (and single small pic) here:
http://www.thecurlingnews.com/calendar.html

[supernova]

19. Aww, and you wanted to buy one!

I'll bet. :D

[Richard Steele]

21. I DO often have trouble remembering what day it is, you know!

It seemed like that could have helped.

Not to mention my TREMENDOUS respect
for the art of B&W photography.....:evilgrin:

[Wetzelbill]

34. uh... yeah... met too... on all of those counts...

:smoke:

[Radical Activist]

3. Lots of dairy queen swedish girls from the upper midwest?

is that it?

[Wetzelbill]

7. it must be

but even the other countries have some smokers.

[brentspeak]

5. She is pretty good looking

I read that a lot of the U.S. curlers come from one single town in Minnesota.

[Wetzelbill]

6. yeah, I think they won the trials as a team

and they've been curling together for a while now. Two sisters are on the team, the one in the pic and another that looks just like her. I don't think they are twins though.

[Radical Activist]

8. I think I may take a road trip

to that town. Very interesting.

[no name no slogan]

10. Their training camp is in Bemidji, MN

Where it is presently -15°F with a windchill around -40°F. Proceed at your own risk.

[brentspeak]

12. My friend tells me the Twin Cities are like Florida

compared to places like Duluth and the rest of northern Minn.

[Wetzelbill]

13. I'm from the coldest town in the nation in MT

and even I wouldn't brave that weather for a woman. Living in Tucson for 4 years has made me a wuss. :)

[no name no slogan]

30. I don't blame you one bit

Tucson is just about perfect, climate-wise. :)

[Wetzelbill]

33. summers are way too hot for me

man, I thought I would die my first summer here. Right now the weather is great though. YOu can't beat it from October to April. Great weather.

Ironically, I have lived in MT, Seattle (two years) and Tucson (going on four years). So I have gone from one of the coldest, one of the rainiest then to one of the hottest places in the country. I must have a thing for extremes, haha.

[no name no slogan]

16. There's at least ten degrees difference, at a minimum

Today, the air temp in Tower, MN and Embarrass, MN (usually the coldest places in all 50 states) was around -20°. It's currently -5° in the Cities. And, if you go south just 100 miles or so to Rochester, MN (home of the Mayo Clinic), it's oftentimes +5° warmer.

Duluth itself is strange, too-- they take two "official" temp readings there: one by the harbor, the other on top of the hill, as there is usually ten degrees difference between them. Duluth's climate has been compared to that of Moscow, Russia, which is pretty much spot on, IMHO.

[brentspeak]

18. What happens to cars in that kind of weather?

A businessman could make a fortune in the "roadside battery-changing" business.

(I did once visit the Twin Cities during summertime. A lot of the cars suffered from roadsalt rust).

[Wetzelbill]

22. they have to be plugged in at night

otherwise you could never start the damn things. You leave a car unplugged and you are screwed. You have to have a garage too. Otherwise you're risking getting a car snowed over. We've gone to sleep at night when the weather was decent and a blizzard would hit in the middle of the night and the next day you wake up and your car is buried under a snow drift. You have to dig it out. Sometime the snow is so hard it's not possible. A few times my family has had to basically wait until spring to get our car out after the drift finally melts. Wind chill routinely gets around -40 in those areas. It's not pleasant. :)

[no name no slogan]

36. Car bodies go very quickly up here

It always amazed me to travel down south and see cars in mint condition that were ten years old. If you don't get a new car rustproofed here, it will literally rust right out from under you in five years, due to the stuff they use to de-ice the roads.

My mom's first car after her divorce was a 1974 Honda Civic. Sadly it didn't have rustproofing, and cars were still mostly metal back then. By 1977, the car had rusted so badly you could literally punch a hole through the engine with a metal bar.

[Wetzelbill]

20. my hometown is Ten below right now, Twenty tonight

Ouch! I might call home and make fun of my parents. :) It's Cut Bank, MT, btw.

Duluth is strange. I imagine the difference between the harbor and the hill is pretty evident, ten degrees is a lot. Our temp would be taken out at our little airport, however my family lives abotu 6 miles out in the country and it would be quite a bit colder at our place too. Frequently schoolbuses can't even run on the out of town routes, too much wind and snow.

[Left_Winger]

24. Howdy Bill

It's 72 here right now and sunny; and so was yesterday.

What do you mean by 'plugging in the car'?

[Wetzelbill]

26. ahhh...

cars in cold areas have cords leading under the hood that you can plug into an electrical outlet to keep them warm and running in the winter. I don't know exactly what it attaches to or anything, cars are not my forte', but you have to keep them plugged in during the winter nights otherwise it's not gonna start the next morning.

[no name no slogan]

28. That's true. A garage is essential in these places

Thankfully it's about five degrees warmer in major cities (the urban effect), but you still see a lot of people running extension cords from their apartment buildings to their cars to make sure they start the next day. Either that, or you take the battery inside with you when you turn in for the night.

I've been through a couple winters where I had to get up in the middle of the night to start the car, just to make sure it would start in the morning. If you didn't your battery would be dead.

[Wetzelbill]

32. the battery inside is a classic move

:)

[Ravenseye]

29. Block Heaters?

I think most cars up that way have block heaters and oil heaters installed and that's what you plug in. It keeps the engine and oil from freezing during the night and actually allows the car to start in the morning. At 40 below zero the oil gets so thick the engine can't move it. It can actually seriously damage your engine.

[Wetzelbill]

31. yes that's what they're called

thanks :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. the game is more painful than it looks. I went to a teaching seminar

a while back and couldn't walk for a few days afterward. You have to be pretty flexible to play. :)

[Wetzelbill]

14. I sound like a bowl of rice krispies in the morning

maybe I should just officially retire from anything more potent than checkers. :)

But, was it fun?

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. It was great fun! A lot like bowling only more athletic. The place we

went to, in Windsor, was quite like an alley/racquetball club.

I just hurt so badly that I never went back. I was planning on joining a league until the morning after. :)

[Wetzelbill]

23. I have always been intrigued by it

my dad would watch CBC and it would always be on. It fascinates me.

[bullwinkle428]

25. I turned on the TV this morning and was watching a little of this...

...wanted to post the exact same thing, but didn't quite have the balls to do so! I heartily second that motion!

[Wetzelbill]

27. I am beyond getting chewed out by now

all the DU women either know I am being a clown or they realize I am beyond saving, so they just tend to leave me be nowadays. :) You just gotta be wary of being sexist. If you say something in a complimenting fun way, that's fine, nobody will get offended. But, if you come across as a sexist pig who is objectifying women, then you will feel the wrath. :)

[Ravenseye]

35. Johnson Sisters = Hotties

and Schultzy isn't bad either...

[Wetzelbill]

37. definitely cute

that's for sure. :)

[Wetzelbill]

38. kick for the Nighthawks crew

:)

Shameless I know.

[enigmatic]

39. You got it

Canada's top Curling skip Jennifer Jones is gorgeous:




That's one of the things I noticed at the Curling rinks this year:)