# Yes, I'm Dumb, But What Is This Sport?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-im-dumb-but-what-is-this-sport/345877>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 24, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-im-dumb-but-what-is-this-sport/345877 "2006-02-24T03:09:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-im-dumb-but-what-is-this-sport/345877/41 "2006-02-25T05:35:13Z")

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> [@JonScribe](#):
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> Can I just say: Swedish Women’s Curling Team?
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> Babes.

Babeliness is in the eye of the beholder, but I have to say . . . I was disappointed the first time I saw the Swedish team. I found only one out of four to be even remotely babely.

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-im-dumb-but-what-is-this-sport/345877/42 "2006-02-25T16:25:49Z")

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> [@JonScribe](#):
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> Can I just say: Swedish Women’s Curling Team?

Russian women’s skip Liudmila Privivkova. DEEBEE DEEBEE DEEBEE DEEBEE DEEBEE DEEBEE!!

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-im-dumb-but-what-is-this-sport/345877/43 "2006-02-25T23:28:22Z")

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> [@Robot Arm](#):
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> Damn. I’ve never curled (although a local club is having an open house this weekend, so I might go to that)…

I’m just back from the open house at the Broomstones Curling Club. It was very crowded. Had to wait outside for a while to even get in. Then they had tickets with different times on them, a place to stretch, and they took groups of about 20 out to each sheet. They gave us each a piece of duct tape for our sliding foot, did a little demonstration first, then everybody got a turn to deliver one rock. I got to watch a few people before it was my turn. Then right foot in the hack, reach out, draw back and hips up, push, slide, and release. I wasn’t very graceful, but…

I put it in the 8-foot circle.

Signed up for a mini-league the next three weeks.

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**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yes-im-dumb-but-what-is-this-sport/345877/44 "2006-02-26T02:52:09Z")

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I had mandatory curling in Phys. Ed. Would have liked it a lot more if I could make a step and not fall on my ass. Yes, I’m Canadian who can’t balance on the ice. The last time I tried skating, I broke my wrist. And my heart. ☹

But being from Saskatchewan, I have to say I \<3 Sandra Schmirler.

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