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also the US curling effort seems to involve cute blonde sisters somehow

From a Associated Press overview piece on Olympic curling from the NBC Olympics website:

Although popular in Scotland, which claims to have invented curling, and in Canada, which claims to have invented ice, curling remains on the fringe in the United States.

Editors? Editors?

Comments 7

  1. deviant_ wrote:

    Are you trying to say that Canada didn’t invent ice?

    Posted 05 Feb 2006 at 3:32 pm
  2. Rich wrote:

    We just stole it from the Indians!

    Posted 05 Feb 2006 at 5:34 pm
  3. fweebles wrote:

    The only reasonable explanation I’ve got for that is:

    and in Canada, which claims to have invented ice hockey,

    But I still haven’t figured out what that would have to do with curling.

    Posted 05 Feb 2006 at 5:43 pm
  4. substitute wrote:

    Omitted words are SO hard to catch :D

    Posted 05 Feb 2006 at 6:07 pm
  5. tuliphead wrote:

    to my american southwestern eye it didn’t seem all that outrageous that Canada might have, at some point, claimed to invent ice. i mean, isn’t the entire place covered in it? and moose? :)

    Posted 05 Feb 2006 at 10:33 pm
  6. Rich wrote:

    It’s all moose in ice, like MASTODONS.

    Posted 05 Feb 2006 at 10:42 pm
  7. citizenx wrote:

    If I were Canada, I would totally have claimed to invent ice.

    Posted 06 Feb 2006 at 11:47 am