Topix Chitown Regulars

[Sam I Am]

RACE wrote:

Any activity that poses a risk to the participant, poses a risk to the spectator, golf probably more so.
I would be curious to know of an activity that only poses a risk to the participant and not the spectator.
Monster trucks?
Xtreme snowmobile?
Down hill skiing?
NASCAR?
Any one of those things can potentially harm the fans when things go out of control.
Hell, even fly fishing is potentially dangerous to the spectator.

Curling. While a curler could slip on the ice and injure himself/herself, considering all spectators are behind a wall/outside the rink, and the 40 lb. stone which is slid across the ice and not thrown travels at 4.5 mph or less, I am curious as to a scenario in which a curler could injure a spectator. That would be quite a sight.

[Mister Tonka]

Sam I Am wrote:

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You cheeky monkey.

My friend who I went to Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder with last fall just emailed me last night. He got tix to Wrigley. Not for me, but him and the Missus-to-be are taking a long weekend for the show.

[RACE]

A curler uses a stick to push the rock. That stick could slip out of their hand and poke someone's eye out.

[RACE]

what about those broom dudes, they could get injured. ever have a 40lb rock roll over your foot?

[edogxxx]

Sam I Am wrote:

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Backpedaling due to demonstrated inconsistency....

I was turning your own argument around on you and you agreed it was hypocritical.

[edogxxx]

Mister Tonka wrote:

<quoted text> My friend who I went to Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder with last fall just emailed me last night. He got tix to Wrigley. Not for me, but him and the Missus-to-be are taking a long weekend for the show.

Tell him to enjoy boystown!

[Sam I Am]

RACE wrote:

A curler uses a stick to push the rock. That stick could slip out of their hand and poke someone's eye out.

Incorrect. The stone is propelled by the curler pushing a handle that is attached to the stone.

[Sam I Am]

RACE wrote:

what about those broom dudes, they could get injured. ever have a 40lb rock roll over your foot?

The broom dudes are participants, not spectators.

[Sam I Am]

edogxxx wrote:

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I was turning your own argument around on you and you agreed it was hypocritical.

Swing and a miss. Mutt, when you step in it, the thing to do is to wipe it off and then move on, not keep on walking around like there's nothing on the bottom of your shoe.

[Jess in NJ]

I have spent most of the day emailing and calling people to let them know that the former Recording Secretary of our Republican Organization died yesterday and informing them of the visitation arrangements. She coordinated the poll clerks in town and was the secretary for the River Watch in addition to sitting on several other boards over the years.

This is going to be crazy on Sunday. She gave so much of herself to our community. I want this many non-family members to mourn my passing and say nice things about me when I'm 90.

[RACE]

Well, I guess curling is a spectator safe sport, unless you consider the fact that someone my die of boredom watching a rock slide across ice.

[Mimi Seattle]

RACE wrote:

Well, I guess curling is a spectator safe sport, unless you consider the fact that someone my die of boredom watching a rock slide across ice.

Word.

[edogxxx]

Sam I Am wrote:

when you step in it, the thing to do is to wipe it off and then move on

Doin that much?

[PEllen]

RACE wrote:

Well, I guess curling is a spectator safe sport, unless you consider the fact that someone my die of boredom watching a rock slide across ice.

If they use a metal handled broom would that be a curling iron?

[squishymama]

Sam I Am wrote:

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The broom dudes are participants, not spectators.

The broom dudes could be sweeping so furiously that the broom flies out of their hands and flies into the spectators, possibly impaling someone.

[Toj]

Jess in NJ wrote:

I have spent most of the day emailing and calling people to let them know that the former Recording Secretary of our Republican Organization died yesterday and informing them of the visitation arrangements. She coordinated the poll clerks in town and was the secretary for the River Watch in addition to sitting on several other boards over the years.
This is going to be crazy on Sunday. She gave so much of herself to our community. I want this many non-family members to mourn my passing and say nice things about me when I'm 90.

Those had to be difficult calls to make. I'm sure that wiped you out.

[j_m_w]

RACE wrote:

Well, I guess curling is a spectator safe sport, unless you consider the fact that someone my die of boredom watching a rock slide across ice.

Ha!

[Aisle Sitter]

Jess in NJ wrote:

I have spent most of the day emailing and calling people to let them know that the former Recording Secretary of our Republican Organization died yesterday and informing them of the visitation arrangements. She coordinated the poll clerks in town and was the secretary for the River Watch in addition to sitting on several other boards over the years.
This is going to be crazy on Sunday. She gave so much of herself to our community. I want this many non-family members to mourn my passing and say nice things about me when I'm 90.

that is amazing... in a good way.

i was just thinking the other day about who might show up at my gramma's funeral, and i'm hard pressed to come up with more than about a dozen. i guess that's what happens when you out-live all your "peers" and dont make new friends...

someone suggested just having a service at the funeral home... the funeral director we're going to use isn't tied to one specific funeral home, so that won't work. plus, gramma would come back and haunt each and every one of us if we didn't have a catholic funeral mass for her.

[Jess in NJ]

Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch died this morning. That is all the news is covering so far and I have a feeling that's all they are going to talk about today.

He, like my friend Jane who died on Wednesday, didn't care about affiliation. He looked at what people actually stood for and held them accountable. We need more leaders like that.

[Jess in NJ]

Aisle Sitter wrote:

<quoted text>that is amazing... in a good way.

i was just thinking the other day about who might show up at my gramma's funeral, and i'm hard pressed to come up with more than about a dozen. i guess that's what happens when you out-live all your "peers" and dont make new friends...

someone suggested just having a service at the funeral home... the funeral director we're going to use isn't tied to one specific funeral home, so that won't work. plus, gramma would come back and haunt each and every one of us if we didn't have a catholic funeral mass for her.

People will come to visiting hours to support you and your family, even if they didn't know your Gramma. As for the funeral, does/did she go to a church regularly? Some Catholic Churches are a pain about performing any kind of service for non-parishioners. You may want to look into that now or see if the priest is willing to visit her (they all make home visits).