Kilts 'n curling

**NewEnglander** · 25th February 10, 02:03 PM

I've been watching a lot of curling and I have to say the same thought has crossed my mind. Makes one wonder how play has changed since the invention of the game.

**Tony Miles** · 25th February 10, 02:11 PM

here's a link to a very early pic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cu...,_Scotland.jpg

**Lallans** · 25th February 10, 02:33 PM

In my own life, I can remember when smaller clubs here still made their own stones by filling coffee cans with cement. Now they shop the world for the finest ice pebbling machines.

**auld argonian** · 25th February 10, 04:21 PM

Which is a perfect example of technology screwing up a perfectly simple and enjoyable thing.

See also: aluminum baseball bats, super slick swimming suits, steroids and oversized tennis rackets and drivers.

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**ThistleDown** · 25th February 10, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by NewEnglander

I've been watching a lot of curling and I have to say the same thought has crossed my mind. Makes one wonder how play has changed since the invention of the game.

I quite strongly doubt that curling was ever played by kilted gentlemen. The old rink at Moy is now just a shallow depression, but those who used it from the village were not a kilted folk when it was built in the late 18C, and those from the Hall were I think too gentle for the possibilities. Ah yes, and there is the other issue of imperfections in natural ice and the damage bits of grit can do to one's knees.