Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian
Colin;

...not exactly a big sport around Chicago, though...but that DOES give me another excuse to go to Canada (like who needs an excuse!). There are a couple of curling venues around here but I hear that you need an invitation to get in. I wore a kilt to a reception at my wife's work and some oldtimer did come up and ask if I curled...he did invite me to his curling venue (somewhere up in the North Suburbs of Chicago, I think) but we lost track of him...funny, though, that the kilt got him off on the thought of curling.

I just wondered if it could be done on a casual basis...it does seem like the brooms and shoes and stones all cost beaucoup bucks...and the ice, it seems, must be scraped and pebbled just so by some very unusual and expensive equipment. I assume that this is all for the serious devotees but it is quite daunting. Do you guys ever just go over to a rink and toss down some brews and sweep away with brooms from Home Depot while wearing your golf shoes? (I kid about this but please enlighten me.)

Anyway...we all remember the sweet moment in that great Simpsons episode where they went to Canada and Bart and Milhous' tumbling brawl spilled onto the set of "Curling for Loonies".

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AA
The rink down the street from me has Saturdays open. The only commitment on thos days it the lessons. So what this means is that I can walk down there, rent a broom and a slidder (in lieu of the whole shoes deal), and throw as many rocks as I would like. The lounge upstairs is closed those days, but open in the evening when the leagues play. All this for $1.