Recent content by Ye Olde Boomer

I sincerely hope that you rather than I turn out to be right. It's too good a game for lots of people not to enjoy.

Golf appears to be withdrawing from its egalitarian era and reverting to a game for the privilieged. it seems that way over here, in any case. Things go in cycles. It may revert once again in the future.

Even paying what you folks pay for one liter to get an entire gallon of petrol, my 1964 Lincoln Continental's 8.8 liter Brodix aluminum V8 is getting to be a bit much to feed. Upon restoration, the motorcar underwent a radical unibody to full-frame chassis reconfiguration. This made a very...

Hey, that's not so hard! I guess the game doesn't have to last forever in matches of a certain type. Small strike zone--the wicket is narrower than home plate (rubber plate fitted into the ground) so the bowlers must be very accurate. The fielders catch that hard ball without gloves? Tough...

Thanks very much. The first explanation, I assume, was from Benny Hill, no?

Great to hear from you as well, Tash! Just please be careful in the States. As you know, it's not too bad is you stay away from the more dodgey environs.

A cricket ball and a baseball are both about 9" in circumference and are constructed similarly as well. The baseball's cover is made of two #8 shaped pieces to make it more symmetrical, however, and we don't ever play with red ones. Always white, except in the "softball" version of the game...

I've got to see if I have Chewin' the Fat on the viewing menu. Those juvenile delinquents on Still Game are exactly what happen when neighborhood police don't have Glocks. I know it's just fiction, but you admit it's a fairly accurate depiction, and most of those kids would never reach...

My daily driver is a Jeep Grand Cherokee, and my summer toy is a restomodded (restored and modified) 1962 Corvette. [Don't judge me. We get a gallon of petrol for what you play for a liter. ] With a .44 Magnum at my temple, I couldn't tell you what's in them for bulbs. Will admit this...

I'm not carrying any. Driver Driving iron 17, 21, 25º fairway woods. 5-9 irons (27-42°) 48, 54, 60º wedges putter No hybrids. Nothing at all against them, mind you. Just have the fourteen slots filled with other things. The way I'm playing, however, a garden spade, cricket bat, croquette...

I was also brought up Christian--Catholic, being an Italian-American-- but as you can quite obviously see, it didn't stick.

I didn't have a shot of the year. My spinal stenosis is making me play like a complete scraper. I'm embarrassing myself, if I'm to be honest. Perhaps I should just play gin in the clubhouse next year. While I'm playing it, I can drink it as well....although frankly, I'm mostly a coffee guy...

Yes, it's pretty much an American thing. On our calendar, Sunday is the first day of the week, even though we still regard it as part of the "weekend."

Just turn on the close captioning and we're golden. And I'm not being disrespectful. I have to do the same things with shows that take place in the American south.

Public floggings, when they existed, were judicial. Shooting one another's asses off, I'm sorry to admit, is the American national sport. Those genius founders who respectfully relieved George III of the responsibility of sorting us out inexplicably codified that into our constitution...but...