And I think they also invented that little whirly thing-a-majig that gets rid of gophers!
No, Algore invented that the summer he stayed with his aunt over in Picksley...
Posted on 02/14/2006 2:47:47 PM PST by Willie Green
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ANCIENT paintings allegedly proving the Chinese invented the game of golf 1000 years ago are to go on display in Hong Kong.
The pictures from the 13th and 14th centuries show Chinese noblemen hitting balls into holes with clubs that look remarkably similar to modern golf clubs.
The paintings will go on display in an exhibition titled Ancient Chinese Pastimes in Hong Kong's Heritage Museum from March to June, the South China Morning Post reported.
Golf is widely believed to have been invented by the Scots in the 15th century but some Chinese historians argue that the game was being played in China by the year 945.
They point to evidence of a game called "chuiwan" - "chui" meaning to hit and "wan" meaning ball - and say the game was taken to Europe by Mongolian travellers.
Chief curator of the Hong Kong museum Tom Ming said: "The game shown in these drawings is very similar to modern day golf. (This is) very strong evidence that we invented the game."
the game was taken to Europe by Mongolian travellers.
I guess that rugby on horseback thing they do with the dead goat really didn't catch on.
No thank you. Huge vats of crawling insects, cats, snake penis wine and fried pigeon are a few things that come to mind.
"Interesting. Next we will find out that the Aztecs invented roller derby."
Alas, the Aztecs and Mayans never really mastered the wheel. (In no small part because the lack of really good draft animals like horses and oxen in the Americas. Only so much a llama could haul.)
I found a painting that shows Al Gore surfing FreeRepublic.com in 1972, right after he invented the internet.
If I were them, I'd be very quiet about inventing such a notorious game. I guess they invented fireworks to celebrate a hole-in-one.
And I think they also invented that little whirly thing-a-majig that gets rid of gophers! No, Algore invented that the summer he stayed with his aunt over in Picksley...
That's not true---everyone knows Al Gore invented golf!!
..don't think so doc
"snake penis wine"
Methinks they were playing with a round eye.
(That said, I was in a rural restaurant in China watching them pull snakes out of a vat of water and cooking them on the spot. Disgusting.)
Interesting, i've been to Hong Kong and don't recall ever seeing them eat crawling insects, cats, snake penis wine and fried pigeon.
ROTFLMAO!
Yeah ok China, go take your gutta percha and eat it.
I thought Al Gore invented Golf.
This is phooey,Hong Kong phooey.
Mongolian 'travellers'. Nice euphemism.
Hey! There's 100,000 guys on horseback outside the city gates. Where'd they come from? Look! They brought balls!
You can't just erase your own history and, 800 years later, revive it retroactively with no documentation other than an obscure painting. The painting can just as easily be the depiction of activity observed by Chinese travelers, which depiction avoided the royal order to erase all evidence of world travel in the early 15th century.
Nice try though.
China invents the golf gallery.
Really. In that case, why haven't we nuked them yet.
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