[Magdalen] Today's "Luge" Doodle.

[Jay Weigel]

I have grown to appreciate curling. It's a sport I kind of grew up with but
never had much to do with. However, I enjoy the strategy and I get a kick
out of the chitchat since the teams are wired. it sounds the same in any
language, I've noticed :)

Luge and skeleton are both nuts. Your wife is right. But then, so is this
freestyle skiing business. The snowboarding somehow makes more sense
because it's a direct derivative of skateboarding, but doing it on skis
seems crazy. I'm busy watching figure skating now but will be interested in
watching bobsled in between, and the women's hockey final between the US
and Canada. There are players from my alma mater on both teams!

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:47 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> My wife thinks they are both the same in that they are all nuts. It is one
> of the few events in which a contender was killed.
>
> And then there's curling.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuy6T7qrd4
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> > On 19/02/2018 18:59, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
> >
> >> Don't know if those into that sport necessarily appreciate the dung
> >> beetle mash-up (sic), but if my scatological dad was still alive, he'd
> get
> >> one serious kick out of it.
> >>
> >
> > It's actually the skeleton rather than the luge, the difference being
> that
> > in the luge they go down feet first and head-first on the skeleton. Those
> > who go at those speeds with their face inches from the ice are either
> > extremely brave or mad.
> >
> > Roger
> >
>