SPOILIN’ THE BROTH
Neighbor Grover sez there is no future in insisting you’re right when your boss is wrong.
Un-oh. It was nice knowing all of you. The curling mafia is after me.
Last week’s column making fun of the Olympic sport of curling as being a sleep-inducing activity prompted one response.
It came from Rockdale residents Mark and Sheila Brady who spend their summers in the cooler climes of Minnesota, the state where the U.S. Olympic men’s curling team trains in Duluth.
Said Mark:
“Bill, I heard that the Duluth Curling Team and all of Duluth is ticked off about your commentary on curling. I will do my best to soften the anger from this blood-thirsty mob. Be careful of anyone who you hear saying ‘You betcha’.”
By now you all know that the U.S. men’s curling team won the gold by upsetting the favored team from Sweden in the finals.
And, you’ve probably also read the crazy story about how this men’s curling team was a bunch of rejects who had to organize their own team and defeat the favored teams at the U.S. Olympic trials in order to represent the U.S. One team member worked at a liquor store in Duluth, another at a Dick’s Sporting Goods.
There’s even talk about a movie being made about this bunch of unlikely gold-medal champions.
If there is, it could be a “sleeper” for an Academy Award (pun intended).
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Okay, so Sunday morning up at St. John’s Essentially United Methodist Church, during the announcements segment, one old crew-cut wise guy (who do you know who fits that description?) stood and made the following announcement:
“This week, the United States women’s hockey team beat Canada and won the Olympic gold for the first time in 20 years.” (Hearty applause)
Then the old wise guy, who fears no cold-weather mafia, continued:
“Also, the United States men’s curling team defied all odds and defeated Sweden to win the gold, and in so doing raised the level of interest in the sport of curling in our nation by at least (holding his thumb near his forefinger) one-quarter of an inch.” (Hearty laughter. Essentially United Methodists are a fun-loving bunch when it comes to announcements.)
One of our essentially united members, Joyce Kirk, came up with a wonderful observation regarding curling.
“Any sport,” Joyce said, “that puts a broom in a man’s hands can’t be all bad!” (Vigorous, essentially united laughter, especially by the women, including the old crew-cut wise guy’s wife Pegaroo.)
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