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No, tlc95066, it not a type of bowling game. It is one of the pins in rack of bowling pins. It is the last pin on the right side and a totaly useless pin, except to make bowlings angry
If you have never been bowling, you wouln't understand. It may be better for your sanity if you don't bowl.
If you have never been bowling, you wouln't understand. It may be better for your sanity if you don't bowl.
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Yes, Sleepless on LI, I've bowled many games in my life. I had to quit a few years ago due to work and it may have saved what sanity I have left. It has ruined many a good game for me. May have to back into it in a while anyway. Guess I'm a glutton for punishment. It is especially tough for a right-hander.
Enough bowling tales for now. Don't want to bore the non-bowlers among us.
Enough bowling tales for now. Don't want to bore the non-bowlers among us.
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Coming from Canada I'd disagree; tenpin (usually seen as "10 pin") is one of 2 major types of bowling games played, the other being 5 pin.Tenpin wrote:No, tlc95066, it not a type of bowling game.
5 pin has a smaller ball and only 5 pins which are not all worth the same point value. From left to right they are worth 2, 3, 5, 3, 2 for a total count of 15. Also the ball is smaller and lighter and without finger holes; you can hold it in the palm of your hand.
Then there are minor local variants like candle pin.
Talk about an off-topic thread!
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lindas88 wrote:5 pin has a smaller ball and only 5 pins
Here in the Maritimes ( eastern Canada ) we play with 10 pins and with small balls....with no holes and they fit in the palm of your hand...we don't even have 5 pin here. I bowled for over 20 years and loved it.
Shhhh Linda.. the rest of Canadia was fooled into using half the pins to stretch the limited supplies out
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Hi Grabraham and lindas88,
Seems you two are going off on some kind of tangent without all the facts. Any unsuspecting hosehead could easily be misled. You both seem to have odd fantasies regarding the exciting activity that Canada exported to the world - along with hockey, baseball. curling, basketball and the shot put just to name a few. These sports are all derivatives of our true national sport bowling - (yet to be adopted by the Greeks who seem to control the Olympic games).
I intend to set the record straight for you two, and clear up the mass confusion you have both caused. Just remember this is an information site for Apniacs who struggle with air leaks, hoses, evil DME's, and insurance - never mind the brain fog and sleeping at the wheel.
Before I start, Grabraham, PLEASE check your atlas/roadmap for spelling errors. The name of our country is spelled Canada. Three vowels in a six letter word is enough for most people. Sure you have three out of four in Ohio - typical American overkill, but we are pretty sedate up here. No need to add another vowel and name us Canadia.
First, lindas88, you must not have been paying attention during your history lessons. It should be obvious that your province New BRUNSWICK, was named that way for a special reason. Can you think of it now? BRUNSWICK, hint, hint. Home to the industrial mogul Olie Brunswick and his favorite son Newly.
Oops, wifey just informed me supper is ready - got to go. Have other important points to tell you, on this subject, try to get back later.
Bob F
OK, I'm back. Sorry about that. Actually did lose my train of thought but none the less - we must all know the truth! So here are the facts.
lindas88 has clearly been living in a "dream" world and has obviously been part of a top secret experiment. Can you imagen any bowling alley in the world having ten pins and small balls? No way!! The Brunswick Corporation, in their desire to improve profits perfected the ten pin setter, of course at a higher price to all bowling alleys. Well, many of the alleys, and this is where lindas88 bowls, just could not afford the cost of the new larger balls intended to handle the increased number of pins. So they just continued to use the small (hand held) balls they were used to. In addition, they did not have to try and figure out which finger went in which hole. They just have to grab the ball and throw it, no fiddling around. Saves time!
The son, Newly Brunswick, is actually developing a fifteen pin setter but some of the provincial locals are worried that he just doesn't have the balls for it. Time will tell.
Now, Grabraham, don't want to let the wind out of your sails but the variations you mentioned have been around for a long, long time. These are used in the much less affluent rest of of what you call Canadia. The New Brunswickers are the real nouveau rich in Canada and have tons of pin money to throw around. THEY don't have to skimp like the rest of us.
Just to explain:
Candlepin - is used throughout Canada outside of New Brunswick particularly in the poorer regions such as Toronto, Vancouver and virtually all of the prairie provinces. This is where only one pin is used because they cannot afford more ( not like the rich bitches in New Brunswick where they always use ten). Not only do they save money on the extra pins but they do not need the expensive automated Brunswick pinsetters. This will be explained more fully when we deal with the term Duckpin later.
The scoring, as you know is quite simple. 5 points each for hitting in order the left, right and centre of the pin. No points for a miss but 10 bonus points for a left or right tic causing at least four wobbles and a 25 point bonus if the pin is airborne but lands upright.
The reason it's called Candlepin is because of the long dark winter nights we have to endure with little or no power to see. We make do by attaching a wick to the pin and lighting it. Can't tell you how many balls we lose till daybreak.
This brings us to the term Duckpin, Sort of like "four" in golf. Sometimes at night when the power is out and the wind is up, the flame on the wick of the pin blows out and we all yell "Duckpin" to the little bugger eking out a living as a pinsetter - just cannot afford those newfangled automatic pinsetters they have in New Brunswick. I think they call them CPAPs - Continuous Performing Automatic Pinsetters!
Bob F
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Seems you two are going off on some kind of tangent without all the facts. Any unsuspecting hosehead could easily be misled. You both seem to have odd fantasies regarding the exciting activity that Canada exported to the world - along with hockey, baseball. curling, basketball and the shot put just to name a few. These sports are all derivatives of our true national sport bowling - (yet to be adopted by the Greeks who seem to control the Olympic games).
I intend to set the record straight for you two, and clear up the mass confusion you have both caused. Just remember this is an information site for Apniacs who struggle with air leaks, hoses, evil DME's, and insurance - never mind the brain fog and sleeping at the wheel.
Before I start, Grabraham, PLEASE check your atlas/roadmap for spelling errors. The name of our country is spelled Canada. Three vowels in a six letter word is enough for most people. Sure you have three out of four in Ohio - typical American overkill, but we are pretty sedate up here. No need to add another vowel and name us Canadia.
First, lindas88, you must not have been paying attention during your history lessons. It should be obvious that your province New BRUNSWICK, was named that way for a special reason. Can you think of it now? BRUNSWICK, hint, hint. Home to the industrial mogul Olie Brunswick and his favorite son Newly.
Oops, wifey just informed me supper is ready - got to go. Have other important points to tell you, on this subject, try to get back later.
Bob F
OK, I'm back. Sorry about that. Actually did lose my train of thought but none the less - we must all know the truth! So here are the facts.
lindas88 has clearly been living in a "dream" world and has obviously been part of a top secret experiment. Can you imagen any bowling alley in the world having ten pins and small balls? No way!! The Brunswick Corporation, in their desire to improve profits perfected the ten pin setter, of course at a higher price to all bowling alleys. Well, many of the alleys, and this is where lindas88 bowls, just could not afford the cost of the new larger balls intended to handle the increased number of pins. So they just continued to use the small (hand held) balls they were used to. In addition, they did not have to try and figure out which finger went in which hole. They just have to grab the ball and throw it, no fiddling around. Saves time!
The son, Newly Brunswick, is actually developing a fifteen pin setter but some of the provincial locals are worried that he just doesn't have the balls for it. Time will tell.
Now, Grabraham, don't want to let the wind out of your sails but the variations you mentioned have been around for a long, long time. These are used in the much less affluent rest of of what you call Canadia. The New Brunswickers are the real nouveau rich in Canada and have tons of pin money to throw around. THEY don't have to skimp like the rest of us.
Just to explain:
Candlepin - is used throughout Canada outside of New Brunswick particularly in the poorer regions such as Toronto, Vancouver and virtually all of the prairie provinces. This is where only one pin is used because they cannot afford more ( not like the rich bitches in New Brunswick where they always use ten). Not only do they save money on the extra pins but they do not need the expensive automated Brunswick pinsetters. This will be explained more fully when we deal with the term Duckpin later.
The scoring, as you know is quite simple. 5 points each for hitting in order the left, right and centre of the pin. No points for a miss but 10 bonus points for a left or right tic causing at least four wobbles and a 25 point bonus if the pin is airborne but lands upright.
The reason it's called Candlepin is because of the long dark winter nights we have to endure with little or no power to see. We make do by attaching a wick to the pin and lighting it. Can't tell you how many balls we lose till daybreak.
This brings us to the term Duckpin, Sort of like "four" in golf. Sometimes at night when the power is out and the wind is up, the flame on the wick of the pin blows out and we all yell "Duckpin" to the little bugger eking out a living as a pinsetter - just cannot afford those newfangled automatic pinsetters they have in New Brunswick. I think they call them CPAPs - Continuous Performing Automatic Pinsetters!
Bob F
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It is New Brunswick (home of the highest tides in the world along with the Flowerpot Rocks and the tidal bore), and you've been got again .Sleepless on LI wrote:So Brunswick in Canada is the home of the bowling-related Brunswicks? Or am I being gullible, as usual?
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