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Collaborations: Tommy Emmanuel & Richard Smith, "Baby's Coming Home"

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makeitstop10/10/2021 10:51:52 am PDT

re: #149 plansbandc

Very cool. We are also pretty obsessed with curling. Love watching it in the Olympics. Fun to find out a bit about how hard it is to play. We both figured it was a fairly solid workout.

It is! The first couple of tries to throw had me huffing and puffing like I was still smoking. :)

Another cool aspect of the sport is the emphasis on etiquette - each team greats the other with a hand shake (or fist bump in Covid times) and a wish of ‘good curling’ and repeats it at the end of the game. Trash talk and showboating are expressly forbidden. And when it’s over, the tradition is for the winning team to buy the losing team the first round of drinks, and then the losing team buys the second round.

Truly a gentle sport. During the game I found myself actually encouraging folks on the other team. Where else in the world does that happen?