# Putt-putt? Huh? Where?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451 "2003-06-21T18:58:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/1 "2003-06-21T18:58:37Z")
Papa Tiger loves to watch sports on TV. He’s quite ecumenical – loves everything from sumo to Aussie rules football. You name it, he watches it. But this afternoon he was watching a PUTT-PUTT competition on TV. Good grief, if this is what having 79 gazillion cable channels means, I think the bottom of the barrel has been scraped. Surely there is NO sport dumber than putt-putt to televise! Mundane and pointless, yes, but I think I’d rather just watch the grass grow! (Which around here is practically visible, it grows so fast!) ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/2 "2003-06-21T20:35:48Z")
You’ve obviously never seen ESPN2. World’s Strongest Man competitions are one thing, but the reruns from the 70s are quite another (yes, I watch them anyway)… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/3 "2003-06-21T21:32:19Z")
Be careful with that request, Mama Tiger. HGTV may snap that idea up and claim it was theirs. I’ve watched a few of the poker championships lately and somehow they don’t have the same tension and drama as “The Cincinnati Kid.” ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/4 "2003-06-21T22:25:52Z")
He watches both of those, too. What’s with you guys and _anything_ they call sports on TV, anyway? Surely there’s something more time-wasting you can find to do? ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/5 "2003-06-22T00:44:14Z")
Lately (including last night), they seem to show a lot of trick-shot pool on ESPN2. It always seems to be this one biggish, gray-haired guy with a Southern accent against an ever-changing opponent. I saw Putt-Putt Skins before, years ago – isn’t that the one where they have to make the hole in one stroke (if you can call it that with Putt-Putt)? In fact, years ago when I was miniature golfing, some man was there with a real putter and a real ball and looking quite serious. I _was_ somewhat taken aback by that rerun of the WSM competition from 1977, but I watched it anyway. I was pleasantly surprised by the presence of attractive clothes worn by the women at the “girl-lift” rather than the two Band-Aids™ and a string they would probably wear nowadays. Didn’t they televise marbles (ringer) quite a while back? I wouldn’t be surprised to see it televised again one of these days; can you imagine the commentary? ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/6 "2003-06-22T01:15:46Z")
Well, before ESPN became the official name, it was known as the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. I think they meant for other things to be shown since the beginning, and they’ve been pretty consistent in that regard since they started broadcasting. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/7 "2003-06-22T01:17:40Z")
Papa Tiger tries to justify poker tournaments as a sport. Riiiiight. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/8 "2003-06-22T03:25:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Joe K \* > … rather than the two Band-Aids™ and a string they would probably wear nowadays … And you were so close, **Joe K**. This season’s new French bathing suit consists of two Bandaids™ and a _ **cork** _! My man, when fighting ignorance, accuracy is everything. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/9 "2003-06-22T07:31:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*And you were so close, **Joe K**. > > This season’s new French bathing suit consists of two Bandaids™ and a _ **cork** _! My man, when fighting ignorance, accuracy is everything. \*\* A _cork_? Where does _that_ go? [sub]I ask this only in the name of fighting ignorance; you understand…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Kegg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kegg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kegg)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/10 "2003-06-22T11:15:50Z")
those suits would have been smaller but they had to have some place to put the price tag. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/11 "2003-06-22T14:39:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mama Tiger \* > \*\*He watches both of those, too. What’s with you guys and _anything_ they call sports on TV, anyway? Surely there’s something more time-wasting you can find to do? \*\* Yea, but if he doesn’t watch ESPN, something huge might happen elsewhere and HE MIGHT MISS IT! It’d take minutes, or even hours, for him to find out… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/12 "2003-06-22T15:49:07Z")
> [@](#): > > **Yea, but if he doesn’t watch ESPN, something huge might happen elsewhere and HE MIGHT MISS IT! It’d take minutes, or even hours, for him to find out…** You mean like World War III breaking out? They MIGHT interrupt a track meet or lacrosse game to mention it, but only if the star athletes were going to be drafted! ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/13 "2003-06-22T16:26:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mama Tiger \* > \*\*You mean like World War III breaking out? They MIGHT interrupt a track meet or lacrosse game to mention it, but only if the star athletes were going to be drafted! \*\* Oh, no, I mean stuff like \ making the playoffs. We live for playoffs. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/14 "2003-06-22T16:33:28Z")
Silly me, I thought you meant NEWS. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/15 "2003-06-22T17:11:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mama Tiger \* > \*\*Silly me, I thought you meant NEWS. :smack: \*\* If \ made the playoffs, that’d be news! They haven’t made the playoffs since \. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/16 "2003-06-22T17:14:36Z")
Well, this is why men and women utterly fail to understand each other. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/17 "2003-06-22T18:27:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mama Tiger \* > \*\*Well, this is why men and women utterly fail to understand each other. 😃 \*\* I really think you (and all women) should read “Dave Barry’s Guide to Guys”. It’s like a manual. > [@](#): > > But you have to consider the larger picture, from the guy’s point of view: His wife may be a warm, loving, and loyal person, but there is no way she’ll ever make the playoffs. p. 114 See? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putt-putt-huh-where/183451/18 "2003-06-22T18:41:03Z")
I’ve read it, **GMRyujin**. It’s _frighteningly_ accurate.