Is it wrong????

[DaveAyotte]

7-Bagger - Shark Week?
8-Bagger - Octomom?

come on - there has to be some amazing ideas out there.

[littlelegs]

7-Bagger = a Snow White?

[bowl1820]

If you want you can use dice lingo.
7 is Big Red
8 is Eighter from decatur
9 is Nina from Pasadena

[chrono00]

A lot of the lingo is regional. Here in CT a ball hitting the wrong pocket is called a 'Brooklyn'. A friend who grew up in PA calls it 'going Jersey'. And it changes as well. The 'big four' split, ( e.i. the 4-6-7-10 ) used to be called 'double pinocle'.

I think the nationally accepted term is brooklyn.

but being from philly, yea it's jersey. they'res always a joke about having to pay the bridge toll and stupid things like that lol

[chrono00]

Lets see
1 strike is a Strike
2 strike a Double
3 strikes is a Turkey (Which I believe came from houses (Back when), where if you got three strikes in a row. They gave you a Turkey.)
4 strikes use to be just a Four bagger, But Hambone is coming to a dubious popularity. (Hambone is a term made up at the start of the 2007-2008 Pro Bowlers Association (USA) season on ESPN by new announcer Rob Stone.)
5 strikes is a Five Bagger
6 strikes is a Six Pack.
7 and up don't really names other than local names.

Ours or the same for the 1-4 but

5-yahtzee
6-I honestly don't remember
7- jiggly puff ( i have no idea, we just do)
8- Davey jones.

[J Anderson]

Hey Chrono00,
Does your 'yahtzee' predate Rob Stone's?

[chrono00]

Hey Chrono00,
Does your 'yahtzee' predate Rob Stone's?

I couldn't tell you. a handful of my friends are pretty good bowlers and have been for years. I just kinda randomly got suckered into a summer league about 2 years ago as an excuse to drink.

the hole staying under/behind the ball thing only just clicked in like november. I was basically struggling to hold an average in the 120's before, and now I throw somewhere around 500 pretty much every week

[striker12]

chrono00 that thats pretty good that u are getting 500's im barly getting them soemtimes im below but its all about having fun and stuff like that...


theres alot of names for what ever pins u leave up like the big 4 (4-6-7-10) i know some people that call this the devil and then there is the 7-10 some people call that field goal posts

there lots of name for splits and strikes just hard to remember them all soo i jsut call them by there numbers it dose take time to figure out which ones they are i have to think for a couple seconds too a minute

[briar_fan]

One of my teams uses these names:

3- Turkey
4- Driving the Truck (only because the house shows a 4 wheel drive truck smashing pins)
5- Yahtzee (not sure of Rob Stone's Date of use but we started it about 2005)
6- Magic Bananas (I saw the water filter commercial last year where it says that, and we didn't have anything)
7- Warhgarbal! (pronounced exactly like it looks. I have no idea why we use it)
8- ????
9- will now be called Turducken!

[DaveAyotte]

Yea, but the thing with Turducken, it just needs to be 2 birds... although, magic bananas does have some strange 'appeal' to it. </corny>

(I like how this thread went from talking about pin placement, to naming strings of strikes - sorry Ray.)

edit: so onto the 10-bagger:
dime-piece? (perfect 10)
strike-strike? (X is the Roman Numeral for 10)
Hamilton? (On the 10 dollar bill)
Rorschach? (ink blot dude - developed 10 official patterns)