I just found( on ebay) a bowling medallion, heavy bronze disk about the size of an american half dollar. one side says, 'compliments of the season, bay albert 1904' and the other size has an engraving of a balkl and two pins.
it's cool to have something so old in hand of course and makes me wonder what its history could possibly be, no luck seaching the above quoted words on google yet, but i've found some pretty great pictures of life itself in 1904.
only 107 years ago, man, looks like 500 what with all we've accomplished in just the last 100......
1904? That's not old!... I've got some Roman coins that that are nearly 2000 years old.....I drink in a pub that's older than the Mayflower....old...pathooey! :)
I recently had a patient who was born in 1910. On a break I wrote down all the things that she had seen in her lifetime. It was a LOOOOOONG list.
Besides things like 2 world wars, Vietnam etc... You have things like TV, the internet, the space program...Just blows my mind dudes.
hey man, im an american living in suburban l.a.! anything before 1950 blows my fucking mind, man! lol!
but seriously, it really does.
and what the fuck is a 'pub'?
jk.
today i got my bowling pin auction win, a pin from THE HOLLYWOOD LANES! WHOO-HOO!
Fucking hell, Hannah your History gene is clearly easily pleased!
A pub is short for public house or in your parlance a bar where they sell ale or beer! :)
I'm glad you won your pin though dude that's cool! :)
@ Trip. The moon landings, Colour TV, the internet and mobile phones have all occured in my lifetime...and I'm only 47! We have only been flying with powered flight for 108 years and jet powered flight for about 60....remember those are just the first flight dates...I'm an aircraft engineer and have seen massive leaps in technology in my area of expertise since I started...so yep our technology has advanced so much....
However: Mankind has not advanced one bit in it's treatment of other human beings.....we haven't stopped wars and killing ...in fact the only way we have progressed in this area is the efficiency of the weapons we use. Why hack a man to death with a sword when we can stand off a bit and shoot him....why bombard a nation with bombs that require us to actually fly to those countries and drop em when we can sit 5000 miles away in front of a laptop (with a cup of coffee beside you) and direct a drone to place a missile right on your targets head?
Our greatest feats and advancements....flat screen tv's...pre-packaged food...the interweb.....oh and being able to murder and maim from an office....
I ain't too happy with our advanced tech!
Peace man.
Kurt Vonnegut would agree with you very much!
oooh, i understood two things in those lasts post and am inspired. coffee and vonnegut,YUM.
QuoteKurt Vonnegut
Is that some kind of Eastern thing?
far from it, dude.
I can't tell if you're being serious ;D
If you are- He was a writer. People called what he wrote "Sci Fi", but I personally disagree with that label.
A major theme of his work was that technological progress, just for the sake of being able to do it, was a major negative in humanity.
Here's a quote from a bio of his on nndb.com
QuoteCommon themes in Vonnegut's work include the dehumanization wrought by technology, as well as by bureaucracy and media indoctrination. Sexuality and violence and the myths that spring up around them are also common themes. While Vonnegut's work has sometimes been criticized for flouting accepted narrative conventions, for "sophomoric simplicity", and for vulgarity, there is no mistaking the passion of his underlying arguments -- for pacifism, for socialist equality, and most of all for the need for common decency. Yet what separates Vonnegut from other social commentators and political do-gooders is that he never seemed compelled to elevate himself above the rest of humanity. He portrayed himself, as he did nearly everyone else (hero or villain), as a dumb schmuck struggling to do his best, despite mispatched mental programming and an unsteady world.
Serious lack of a sarcasm font here dude! Maybe all sarcasm should be printed in red!
Yeah I have read his scribblings and agree with the dude.
My thoughts and writings and feelings are entirely my own however!
Peace dudes.
I figured that was the case, but I didn't want to leave you hanging just in case.
Who knows, maybe some young dude perusing the boards said "Kurt who now?" and is making a trip to the library.
@ Trip You're cool dude. No worries.
@ Hannah. Yo're cool too...sorry I've hijacked your thread a wee bit. I guess I'm being a bit arsey and undude tonight.
Peace always guys.
CD.
vonnegut was my idol. ' we are here on earth to fart around, dont let anyone tell you any different' sums it up nice 'n tidy!
This thread must be addressed by Eddie Izzard (a dude in his own right)...........
Eddie Izzard; Where The History Comes From! ;D
Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2HMMTDzlc&feature=related
(http://www.indiancomedian.com/EddieIzzard.jpg)
Quote from: hannahdude on May 25, 2011, 04:48:28 PM
and what the fuck is a 'pub'?
jk.
http://youtu.be/8E0aZ387M_I
:)
Quote from: hannahdude on May 25, 2011, 04:48:28 PM
and what the fuck is a 'pub'?
jk.
Pub, short for Public House (that's public house but not a Public Right of way, check
the offices shops and railway premesis act (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/41)), resort to
wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_house)(as usual). Possibly also referred to as Tavern.
Generally a drinking establishment central to British culture (see Dickens). they used to be pivotal to local culture but have declined recently because of rising prices across the bar and falling prices in the supermarkets.
Quote from: digitalbuddha on May 25, 2011, 09:19:03 PM
This thread must be addressed by Eddie Izzard (a dude in his own right)...........
Eddie Izzard; Where The History Comes From! ;D
Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq2HMMTDzlc&feature=related
I'll take history from that dude anytime!
jk means 'just kidding', iknow what a pub is, i read my dickons andwatched my bbc!
you guys!
jk I thought that was your signature.
(another case for the [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tag or font)
What's a pub?
A Dudeist temple!
Find yourself a local and get to some serious Duding, right now :)
I'm a fan of using the smilies to help get my point across ( ;) ;D :D 8) ) but I know that some people absolutely detest them.
I knew what JK was, but decided to just see where this went!! ;D ;D
I'm easily amused.
JK? I ain't down with the kids man....thought it was a nom de plume or somesuch thing...
hell, caesar, i aint no kid man, im nearly 50!
most of the time of the forum, i've noted, i feel like i'm being totally understood, and more importantly that i UNDERSTAND the intonation of dud'es words. i thiiknk the key is i imagine the DUDE HIMSELF SAYING THE WORDS i write and then context just seems to appear, its all good man, nothings fucked here; you know, the baisc tenants of dudeism are present in everything i say. which means, like the dude( with his satre on his nightstand) im a lot more intelligent than i let on!
Wait... is this about the guy from Jamiroquai now? Funnily enough, JK has a tiny pub built into his own house! Rich, flashy bastard that he is.
Quote from: Rev. Ed C on May 26, 2011, 12:07:50 PM
What's a pub?
A Dudeist temple!
Find yourself a local and get to some serious Duding, right now :)
Bacchanalian (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3576184) Temple (Dudeists Welcome) if you don't mind there sir!
They probably bowled outside then.
That was the original version, Not the compromised second draft.
The town "Bowling Green" is so named....
Quote from: BikerDude on May 27, 2011, 12:22:03 PM
They probably bowled outside then.
That was the original version, Not the compromised second draft.
The town "Bowling Green" is so named....
There's more than one town of that name. I lived in Bowling Green, Ohio for awhile.
"Gulliver told his tale in as few words as possible. The captain stared with wonder, and would not believe his story. But Gulliver then took from his pockets the black cattle and the sheep, which of course clearly showed that he had been speaking truth. He also showed gold coins which the Emperor of Blefuscu had given him, some of which he presented to the captain.
"The vessel did not arrive at the port of London till April, 1702, but there was no loss of the live stock, excepting that the rats on board carried off and ate one of the sheep. All the others were got safely ashore, and were put to graze on a bowling-green at Greenwich, where they throve very well."
http://www.web-books.com/Classics/ON/B1/B1119/02MB1119.html
Some say it always existed in the heavens:
"Odin was a sky god when sky gods were revered and feared and he and Thor bumped across the heavens in thunder and lightning, savage bowling with the heads of the dead."
http://www.sexualfables.com/lokis-children.php
Quote from: meekon5 on May 27, 2011, 08:19:24 AM
Quote from: Rev. Ed C on May 26, 2011, 12:07:50 PM
What's a pub?
A Dudeist temple!
Find yourself a local and get to some serious Duding, right now :)
Bacchanalian (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3576184) Temple (Dudeists Welcome) if you don't mind there sir!
Ah, no, I'm not a namby-pamby wine-drinker, sir. You can tell Bacchus to take his grapes and... err... squeeze em! :D
As for bowls, yes, bowls has been around for a long long time. It's a wonderful game, for gentlemen and old codgers. I personally prefer bowls... lighter balls!
Bocce ball is fun. Never played bowls.
I guess it is somewhat of an American trait to marvel at doodads and antiques from days gone by, because our own history is relatively brief.
I actually collect fountain pens (among other things), and the crown jewel/pride and joy of my collection is a Parker 51 from the year 1948. I still marvel at the pen's age, because most folks these days use cheap, disposable pens that run out of ink after a few weeks and can't be refilled. You might think my relic would be near worthless; but in fact, it writes like a DREAM, and I use it practically every day, with my own special ink recipe I crafted to match the grayish-teal barrel color. Ah, the simple joys of anachronistic foppery!
"Ah, the simple joys of anachronistic foppery" YES, thats it exactly!
Our game I suspect is timeless and universal.
20 years ago I won a game of petanque or boule in the south of France.Franky Drake was chucking a few rocks as the Spanish were planning a run ashore in Plymouth.
I am starting a bowling league at work and one driver declined.He said I Green bowl in the summer but play pub skittles in the winter.
And do you think it odd that nothing much happened in aviation since they scraped Icarus off the runway then we go from heavier than air flight to moon landing in just 66 years?
And do you think it odd that nothing much happened in aviation since they scraped Icarus off the runway then we go from heavier than air flight to moon landing in just 66 years? (//http://?)
Hey man once we got the theory right the rest just followed. I'm an avionics engineer and flying isn't mystical it's just very unsound...I believe the best quote is from HHGTTG
"The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] suggests, and try it.
Yep most aircraft shouldn't fly it's true....but however the theory works ...most of them actually do take off...and only a few less than that actually land with everyone inside alive and fairly healthy....fuck some of them even survive the inflight meals!
Space travel? Patooey! It's just throwing yourself of f the planet and avoiding the sun...not for beginners though! 8)
Peace.
i loved this whole thread, what a fucking marvelous thing to re-read. you guys! im feeling like hugging someone right now. where dem dogs?
im just going to go find a cash machine.