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.
Lori....unclebob is pulling our leg... You are quite the character unclebob...
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!
I loved reading this...it was hilarious. You have quite the imagination...
Gosh...I laughed so hard reading this...how and the heck do you think of all this crazy things you write.... You really are quite the character unclebob...I guess I am lucky to be living in New Brunswick...at least for bowling anyway....hahahaaaaCandlepin - 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!
Damn it, Bill, do I ever wise up??? You could sell me a bridge or a mountain, I'm so friggin gullible! Remind me never to listen to you OR Uncle Bob !
