Funniest things I have ever heard while bowling.

[scottymoney]

Last night I heard one of the funniest things while bowling. Anyone else have any good ones?

So a guy bowling on the pair next to me is a backup bowler and just watching him makes my wrist sore! I don't know how you could do that regularly but anyway this is what he said after leaving a 4 pin spare (can't remember what was left but it was a split situation and all over the place). "Now that was ugly!" I really wanted to ask him if he has ever seen himself bowl and tell him nothing he does looks good, but I was nice and just smirked.

I know people bowl backup but why wouldn't someone try to go with a regular release when there is nothing physically holding them back from doing it?

[Greenday]

I know quite a few people who do it. My friend who I try to coach throws one. Another guy in our league throws one. I'm pretty sure he throws about 17mph and he usually plays the five board. He's extremely effective with it. Two weeks in a row he picked up 4-7-10 splits.

[Zothen]

I used to bowl with a guy from Hawaii and everytime he'd throw the ball he'd say"Hook now,Hook now." Over this past summer I tried to help a teammate adjust to the changing lane conditions by moving a board here & their and his reply was"I missed my mark!" He kept my other teammate & I laughing over his stubborness.

Zothen

[Travan]

One time I saw a guy coming off a spare almost roll a gutter ball. Managed to get two pins as it slipped into the gutter. He came back and said, "Wow, I almost ruined that spare." No, you did ruin it buddy. lol

[ArtVandelay]

Well... I just bought a Droid, so I figure if I ever throw it bad (IF... not when, which is more accurate...) I can just say, "That wasn't the droid I was looking for..." I might be a bit of a Star Wars geek....

[ThumbHole]

What does bowling backup mean?

[scottymoney]

Bowling right handed but hooking the ball as if you were left handed. Sort of like this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17j_2e_BECM

Most people I have seen that throw backup make it look like it hurts. It is mainly in the wrist, where the wrist is normally angled toward your body holding the ball, backup would be where your wrist is turned away from your body. It isn't a bad thing, some people do it because of a past injury which doesn't allow them to throw a regular hook (i think we have a guy on here that throws backup because of this). But in most cases these people throw backup because that is how they taught themselves without any coaching.

[MICHAEL]

I Think without a doubt the funniest thing I have ever heard while bowling was, The Dude saying to James,,,, This old man is going to beg for mercy before I am done with him!! (I laughed out loud,,, (without him even knowing what I was laughing about) We shall see who Laughs Last Mr. 300 a month young man!! Never count an IRONWORKER, Super Hero OUT! Like a great man in baseball once said:
“It ain’t over till it’s over!!” lol!!! Makes me Laugh just putting to words!! Haaaa... LOL....lol!!!

[billf]

Funniest thing I ever heard. I left a spare and Derrick called out what pin(s) were left like he did the whole time I couldn't see. A guy on the other team yelled out, "Why don't you just look at the monitor?" Dude, what part of blind did you not understand? You would think the glasses and escort to the table would have been his first clue. Second clue should have been when Derrick had to hand me my ball and tell me which one it was and direct my steps to start my stance. Some people just sweat stupid.

[ArtVandelay]

Funniest thing I ever heard. I left a spare and Derrick called out what pin(s) were left like he did the whole time I couldn't see. A guy on the other team yelled out, "Why don't you just look at the monitor?" Dude, what part of blind did you not understand? You would think the glasses and escort to the table would have been his first clue. Second clue should have been when Derrick had to hand me my ball and tell me which one it was and direct my steps to start my stance. Some people just sweat stupid.

That is pretty funny! hahaha. The problem with my team is we talk more crap to eachother than anything else! We have one guy who's an awful bowler and he comes OVER the ball instead of under. He wants to hook it so badly, but he throws the slowest ball and... It's just bad. Bad, bad, bad... hahahahahaha. But he's so much fun to have on the team. We call him Captain Smith of the SS Titanic (because he's steering our ship straight into the ice berg, just like he "steers," his ball).

But your story reminds me of when I left a 7 - 10 split. In our lanes, the pins you leave show up on the monitor along with an arrow that tells you how to throw it to pick it up. After I left it, my teammate says to me, "Hey, don't worry the monitor's about to show you how to pick that up. Just do what the green arrow says."

[75lockwood]

Hmm.....

I would have to say the funniest thing i experienced while bowling was how my team won our third game tonight.... the guy needed 2 strikes and a 8 count to win the match for his team, he got the strikes and thought he had it in the bag so he thought he was screw around and throw coast to coast for the last shot.... well he sent the ball right through the nose and left the big 4 lol

moral of the story: don't get cocky... the bowling gods hate cocky people

[billf]

the bowling gods hate cocky people

Ben, if this was true then Sean Rash and Peter Weber would be used car salesman or flipping burgers for a living! The bowling Gods hate MOST cocky people, especially amateurs.

[RoccoRock]

To me the funniest thing I hear are when someone hits Brooklyn and leaves a pin, and they yell "I was robbed." Really? Or when a guy who throws a straight ball, right down the middle complains cause the 5 pin is still standing even though he "hit the pocket" Or whe someone (maybe a teammate who refuses to listen to me) blames the lanes, and the "odd" oil pattern (I know, house patterns are a *****) on why he is bowling like crap. Your right, it has nothing to do with the fact your throwing a Freeze you bought 2 years ago, and never had it resurfaced or even cleaned it once, and you are trying to go straight down the right side even though you don't use your thumb, and you missed your mark by 3 feet. I also laugh when someone leaves the 10 pin 4 times in the same game, makes no adjustments (I guess magic was going to solve his issue) and then says, I should be bowling a perfect game. Yeah, maybe on the Wii.

[75lockwood]

Ben, if this was true then Sean Rash and Peter Weber would be used car salesman or flipping burgers for a living! The bowling Gods hate MOST cocky people, especially amateurs.

lol fair enough, Weber kind of does have a right to be cocky lol look at that list of titles...

[ArtVandelay]

To me the funniest thing I hear are when someone hits Brooklyn and leaves a pin, and they yell "I was robbed." Really? Or when a guy who throws a straight ball, right down the middle complains cause the 5 pin is still standing even though he "hit the pocket" Or whe someone (maybe a teammate who refuses to listen to me) blames the lanes, and the "odd" oil pattern (I know, house patterns are a *****) on why he is bowling like crap. Your right, it has nothing to do with the fact your throwing a Freeze you bought 2 years ago, and never had it resurfaced or even cleaned it once, and you are trying to go straight down the right side even though you don't use your thumb, and you missed your mark by 3 feet. I also laugh when someone leaves the 10 pin 4 times in the same game, makes no adjustments (I guess magic was going to solve his issue) and then says, I should be bowling a perfect game. Yeah, maybe on the Wii.

That's not funny to me... That's just annoying. hahahaha. Eh. I don't know enough about bowling to get too upset about anything like that.

I DO enjoy the head cases though... They're always fun! I'm a pretty level headed kinda guy. I might let out the occasional Charlie Brown-esque, "AAAAarrrrrgh!" but it ends there for me, and I'm done with that shot/thought. But I LOVE the people who feel they need to throw their towel or kick the machine or hit something. Those guys are great! It always puts a smile on my face, especially if I'm bowling them straight up, because I know their head is completely gone!!! hahahaha.

Recently a guy like that was bowling ****ty (his form is awful, but he claimed he threw his first 575 series the night before we bowled) and he was throwing towels, and whatnot, you name it. I kicked the everloving snot out of him all night and enjoyed it. 3rd game, I had him by something crazy like 75 pins through 6, and he put together a double (A DOUBLE! XX) and dropped and did push-ups right on the lane in victory triumph. hahahahahahaa. That was priceless!

We need more humor in our lives.