#844 – Champ
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
The first time I ever went bowling was with my cub scout group. I’m sure it must have been a pretty low key game with a bunch of little kids that barely had enough strength to lift the ball. I think we all used the two handed between the legs method. I won with the high score of 82. I’m still pretty excited about that.
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I think I might’ve gotten more than an 82… um… once or twice…. in my life.
It is quite obvious that you are still excited about it. It dates from your scout group, and you still remember it…
Biff can be proud. I’ve never won a trophy. Might be because here in Belgium we are not that trophy-minded (only at sport teams). But high school trophies, we don’t have those… I’ve always wanted a trophy! 🙁
Last time I was in league, I think my average was something like 115. 😛
One night, on a fluke, I rolled a 260… I felt like a rockstar. My team was doing the “we’re not worthy” bit, whilst the other team was slackjawed as we stomped them into the dirt.
The leage bought me a cheap $5 watch to commemerate me blasting my average by more than 100 pins. I think I’d rather had the defective trophy. 😀
@MaskedMan I get over 260 all the time!
…On Wii bowling…
Ooh, did you use the rubber bands to block the gutters? 🙂
I was a cub scout too, and we probably went bowling at some point, I honestly can’t remember.
No-ball bowling… is that human bowling? Because human bowling is actually really entertaining.
I once lost a new girlfriend over bowling. She took me out on a double date with friends of hers who were into bowling. Me, I had bowled maybe 5 times in my life at that point and she knew it. These people were really serious about their bowling, down to the gloves and personalized balls. I out scored them all. It wasn’t that I did really well, they were actually that bad. Things went downhill from there…..
@Sven – Nope, there were plenty of gutter balls.
@Croc;
Then your form is likely better than mine. 😛
I belong to the Brute Force scchool of bowling – Take a fairly heavy ball, and blast it down the lane like a cannon shot. No hook to speak of, but MAN, do the pins ever fly! I’ve even picked up a few 7-10 splits by brute force – Blast the seven pin into the wall hard enough, and it’ll riccochet all over, usually clearing the ten pin.
I used to be on a drinking team that had a slight bowling habit. We eventually were banned from the lanes for life, so went back to just drinking.
Yeah, that’s how I roll. Get it, roll, like in bowling? You roll the ball! HA! Oh man, I slay me.
Recently, me and my family went bowling. My younger brothers used the bumper to block the gutters, so I naturally had a lower score than them…else I would’ve won…probably…
My bowling ability seems very erratic. If I remember correctly, my lowest score was 68 and my highest was 196, with no consistent “normal range” and no real evidence of general improvement over time.
I am the absolute worst at bowling. On Tekken bowl (on Tekken Tag on the PS2) I can get +, but in real life my best score is 24. Chris, got linked over from Schlock Mercenary, and have been working my way through the archives, I enjoy you comic, Chris
I think the no-ball bowling is a sport for telekinetics.
I’ve noticed that I tend to bowl the best on the third game, which is odd but awesome, cause that usually means that I’ll win that one since everyone else is tired, haha, I think my best score was like, 183 or something like that though, I have bad wrists T-T mby I should invest in one of those wrist protectey thingies…
Actually saw someone bowl a perfect 300 once. Guy was both proud and pissed all at the same time…. since it was his warm-up round. Then the tournament started
finally after 3 days of reading i can post something. LOVE this comic. don’t know how i haven’t known about it for so long.
I usually get upwards of 180 when bowling: the trick is to make sure you don’t put any spin on the ball, but do not launch it straight down the middle. A tad to the left or right is preferable; most strikes are won this way.
i joined my first bowling league this fall after being an intermittent bowler for the last 8 years…when i bowl with my teammates, i average in the 130s-140s. if i bowl alone, i average between 103-140. strange how that works.
My mom was big on wanting me 2 do things she was great at. yea other ppl had moms who wanted to live unexperianced dreams thru them. my mom liked/re/living things through me. she signed me up for bowling and i sucked. swim team? sucked. Horse riding? sucked. yea. it was a great self-esteem boost. “I’m sorry im not as great as you are mom! now can i PLEASE have my paint set back? I want to finish my watercolor. I get that you won awards for swimming but i hate water. seriously. i don’t care that you have a ton of first place trophys for bowling. Have you looked at me? do i look like i could lift that thing? can i go finish my book now? are you going to give me back my paints? are you /listening?/ what do you mean you signed me up for the track team???