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To: beyond the sea
Try walking 24 miles and playing brilliant golf.

Huh? Who walks 24 miles? You mean over a four day period with your every whim catered to? Oh my! What exertion! You get a grip. Golf is a pastime, a hobby, a stroll through the woods or the grass. It's like billiards or bowling.

16 posted on 05/14/2005 6:53:58 AM PDT by raybbr
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To: raybbr
Golf is a pastime, a hobby, a stroll through the woods or the grass. It's like billiards or bowling.

I agree, but when such endeavors are performed by exceptional athletes, id est, those mutants among us with nearly superhuman hand-eye coordination and consistency, then the events become spectacular. Face it. No one wants to watch even "good" basketball players contend each other, e.g. the CBA. And few will compare the excitement of Arena Ball with that of the NFL.

The masses, however, will tune in to watch Lance Armstrong ride a bike through the pastured back-roads of France...

31 posted on 05/14/2005 7:29:16 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent...)
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To: raybbr
Golf is a pastime, a hobby, a stroll through the woods or the grass. It's like billiards or bowling.

And, as true as that foolishness is, you are a FReeper with great depth and intelligence.

LOL!

43 posted on 05/14/2005 7:43:18 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Cops to Jenn: Can we stop looking for the blue van now and talk about the flatware deficit?)
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To: raybbr
It's a walk-a-thon where the winner gets a big check.


67 posted on 05/14/2005 8:04:34 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher ("You're my favorite Freeper. Ever" - Skooz 5/11/05 -- Entertaining FReepers since 2004)
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To: raybbr

You think golf is not a sport? Ha! How about baseball? You sit on your butt dozing off for half the game and stand around in the outfield for 48 percent more. Hell, you get more exercise walking through the mall to pick up a dozen golf balls.


148 posted on 05/14/2005 9:46:01 AM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty)
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