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Help Name My Bowling Ball!
MegaMan001
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I'm joining a bowling league in a thinly veiled excuse to drink heavily during the week. I'm picking up my new 'reactive resin' bowling ball this Saturday to be 'drilled'. As a part of this process I get to have something etched on the ball itself that can be eight characters in length.
So, Penny Arcade, what should I name it?
Also, I put quotations around any word or phrase I really don't understand if anyone wants to hit me up with some general bowling advice.
So, Penny Arcade, what should I name it?
Also, I put quotations around any word or phrase I really don't understand if anyone wants to hit me up with some general bowling advice.
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fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Man I just looked it up on IMDB since I haven't seen it in ages. Everyone was in that movie, jeebus.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Right? So underrated too.
And go with a name you would be comfortable looking at for a long, long time.
EDIT: If you're willing to go with something silly, try 'SNZZBRRY' and lick it before you step up to the boards.
And then every time you bowl, you scream, "WINTER IS COMING!!!!!"
The fantasy nerd in me wants to say Palantír, too.
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Lying there in gutter, just lying there, was a brilliant blue bowling ball. My buds and I grabbed it, of course.
The name on it was "Foon".
That thing was like our dark pet. It stayed in our houses over many moves, occasionally rolling into people's rooms or squatting maliciously in the kitchen. No one ever claimed responsibility for it or it's journeys. When we all broke up our last and greatest living experience it was ceremoniously rolled into our murky reflecting pool.
Yet, I still to this day occasionally break out in cold sweat, half expecting to see Foon roll out from some corner or closet.
I really like "Winter".
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In the movie Mystery Men, one of the main characters is The Bowler and her magical bowling ball contains the skull of her father, Carmine the Bowler.
Incidentally, Janeane Garofalo's father IRL is named Carmine.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
That bowling ball did a ton of damage and was almost a character in its own right.
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"Righty"
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I am reminded of that episode of Pete & Pete ('When Petes Collide'), but "Foon" is considerably more mysterious, and actually fits the eight characters or less requisite, compared with "Rolling Thunder" (who was set free in the wild, iirc)
I had a bowling ball in high school which was inscribed "EDNA" after... uh... I think my dad's first wife's mother..? I dunno. I found it abandoned in the basement at the house and she endured three long, painful years of high school bowling club because, huzzah, it was a relatively rare left-handed number and being that it was an old-lady ball it was pretty weight appropriate for a dorky teenage girl. (Now I am curious what might have happened to ol' Edna.)
hmmmmm.
Carmine is pretty darn fantastic, though.
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Even though I've seen that movie, I thought it was a reference to Carmine from Laverne and Shirley.
Hey, they bowled a lot!
Basically, 'reactive resin' is a urethane ball with resin added. The base performance of the ball really depends on the brand and what kind of stock it is though. Most brands have a diagram that shows their hooking performance on a lane too. But by the ball, hook potential goes:
Plastic -> Urethane -> Reactive Resin
Reactive Resins tend to hook later because they glide on the oil and then stick well beyond the break point so they hook then instead of sooner. So basically if you prefer to hook, then it's the ball for you.
Oh, the ball is Red with Black Swirls. I probably should have mentioned that.