Monday musings…

Posted on February 8, 2010

The Winter Olympics are rapidly approaching, so I’m clearing space on the DVR. I *love* the Olympics, especially the winter games! While I’m generally NOT a “winter” kind of girl, the winter sports are so much more exciting than the summer ones! Hockey, Super-G, speed skating, downhill slalom, halfpipe, moguls…curling. LOL! Seriously…curling? How does that fit??

I went a-googling to see what I could find out about the heart-pounding drama that is curling and found this (and it cracked me right up):

The precise beginnings of curling will always remain a mystery! However, it is not hard to imagine a man, hundreds or even thousands of years ago, who weighed a smooth, heavy rock in his hand, then watched and listened with fascination as he launched it along a glistening bed of ice on a frozen river. This “first curler” must have been intrigued by the way the rock moved and by the grumbling sound it made as it twisted and turned. Other people in the not so distant past have heard this same sound and have applied it as a nickname for the game of curling … it is often referred to as “the roaring game”.

Um, sure. No alcohol involved whatsoever…riiiight.