Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx: > Would someone please explain what the hell curling is? > > I see brooms. > > This does not look like a sport. > > I have never been awarded a medal for my cleaned floors. It qualifies as a sport on the basis of its evolution from a military exercise to an abstracted kinesthetic competition. Consider the shooting and skiing in the biathlon. Don't get me started on the two man luge. Generals Wolfe and Montcalm fought each other by sliding flaming rocks along the Plains of Abraham. Paul Stone will back me up on the this. David Savory Vancouver ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html