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Airscrew · « **Reply #45 on:** April 04, 2007, 01:39:32 PM »

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Originally posted by Halo
Bowling? Now there's a safe topic. Shouldn't push many defensive buttons. Kegling (insider term) looks so easy. Just started in a pleasant senior casual league. Seems 200 should be routine. It's not. Few people break 200. Even a turkey (3 strikes in a row) is tough.

In! What's the highest game you ever bowled?

My highest game was last year, 280. (spare, 10 strikes and then opened on the 10th frame.) on a 182 average last year. this year my average is down to 174.
200's are possible, secret is to pickup your spares. Strikes are good and lovely but if you cant pickup spares they're not much help.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #46 on:** April 04, 2007, 01:53:14 PM »

I have bowled two 299's and 12 298's. I was carrying a 268 average when I stopped bowling. Never managed to get a 300. I quit bowling when I was 19 after a car accident wrecked my shoulder.

Yes, I was set to turn pro. Had the sponsors lined up and ready to go. The wreck happened about 3 months before the tour was to start.

JB88 · « **Reply #47 on:** April 04, 2007, 01:59:09 PM »

wow skuzzy.

midnight Target · « **Reply #48 on:** April 04, 2007, 02:16:06 PM »

My dad was a pretty fair bowler. Averaged in the 190's. Anyway I remember once when he took my sister and I bowling. She scored a 9.

Edbert · « **Reply #49 on:** April 04, 2007, 03:54:49 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
My dad was a pretty fair bowler. Averaged in the 190's.

Kurt Tank was above average in the 190s.

Halo · « **Reply #50 on:** April 04, 2007, 05:20:42 PM »

Wow, Skuzzy, those are impressive scores. And before you were 20 years old.

Fate. Mysterious.

The bowling world's loss is our gain.

Yeah, these forums are kinda weird, aren't they. But fun and often quite helpful.

Don't you sometimes feel like that old leadership quote, "There go my people, I must catch them because I am their leader."

68ROX · « **Reply #51 on:** April 04, 2007, 06:45:20 PM »

Topics?

I LOVE the O Club!

When it went away for awhile it was like telling old guys they couldn't go to the truck stop and chew over things like politics, their cars, guns, or talk about food...but when it came back? AWESOME!!!

When an Arkansan can chat about how to barbecue with someone in Russia...or some kid with a history question for his homework and get an answer from someone who LIVES there...regardless of state, province, or country....that, my friends, is a real community.

Example: on a routine trip back from Germany in the late '70's, since my luggage was the first on, it was the last off. I was in line behind an very eldery woman with a steamer trunk that was at least 100 lbs (she planned on staying with her relatives in Chicago for a few months and had brought gifts on top of her everyday clothes and supplies). Being a wrestler, I happly pressed her trunk forward in line as we chatted in German.

Turns out, "Anna" was from Schweidnitz, Silesia, and for some time worked as a gardener on the von Richthofen family estate. She even, at her age, blushed when she whispered to be that Manfred had, on ocassion, snuck up and "goosed" her backside while she was concentrating on the gardening.

For my fellow AH'ers unaware of Manfred & Lothar von Richthofen, you NEED to Google it! In this game, you NEED to know!

You would be surprised just how SMALL a world this really is!

This board is no different!

Topics.....ROCK ON!

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68ROX

Halo · « **Reply #52 on:** April 04, 2007, 08:35:42 PM »

Amen, 68ROX. I rarely fly anymore but still marvel at Aces High and savor the opportunity that it's here whenever I want to test my mettle or make someone else's day. Best $15 a month I'll ever spend.

You're right, it has grown into an amazing community. Some 3,000 members (I think) all over the world. On the bulletin board, have a concern or ask a question, somebody knows whatever you want to know and usually is willing to share it.

HiTech and his crew are amazing. Many years ago, at an Air Warrior convention in Dayton, I wound up going to dinner with him and another guy when I was still writing and photographing some for Current Notes, the Atari news magazine.

The dinner was nothing arranged, just a "Hi, where's a good place to eat?" link-up. He seemed a bit young, kinda quiet, a little intense, but awfully knowledgeable. To think he had not only the vision to design the ultimate WWII air combat simulator, but to sustain it all these years, is incredible.