Real-Life Weirdness

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

No finger holes drilled in them. So, they're brand new, not something someone had bought, or the public balls from a bowling alley somewhere.

Obviously, in your game, the balls must have been filled with drugs or gold or unobtainium (whatever suits the genre) for the sake of smuggling. But these don't look like they had holes or a way to hollow out the middle. So, there must be an even stranger method in play to hollow out the balls and transport the contraband inside. Gate magic? Transporter beam? Reaching through the fifth dimension? Two-part disintegrator ray that only affects things where the two intermodulated phase beams intersect? Portable hole painted on by a coyote and peeled back off?

I'd say they only look like bowling balls, and I'd say they're made out of something else, entirely.
The stuff that dreams are made of, maybe? :)

[cptbutton]

Originally Posted by dcarson

And in more bowling strangeness https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ep/7905890002/

"He also donated eight balls for a nearby church to use in a bowling ball cannon at a pig roast."

Which brings up even more questions...

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by cptbutton

"He also donated eight balls for a nearby church to use in a bowling ball cannon at a pig roast."

Which brings up even more questions...

I've seen bowling ball cannons in action at the Longs Peak Scottish Irish Highland Festival in Estes Park (they shoot the balls at an inflatable pool toy that looks like the Loch Ness monster, floating out in the middle of a small reservoir), but I've never even heard of something like that at a church social. :)

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by dcarson

And in more bowling strangeness https://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ep/7905890002/

So do bowling balls just kind of... spawn to fill empty spaces? Like Rupees in pottery and tall grass in The Legend of Zelda?

[cptbutton]

Originally Posted by Varyon

So do bowling balls just kind of... spawn to fill empty spaces? Like Rupees in pottery and tall grass in The Legend of Zelda?

It is that anti-theft spell from the Lestrange vault in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".

[L.J.Steele]

Originally Posted by cptbutton

"He also donated eight balls for a nearby church to use in a bowling ball cannon at a pig roast."

Which brings up even more questions...

Number of years back I was at a maple sugar shack in rural Massachusetts. The waiting area had posters for various local events including the local gun club's kielbasa shoot. .... I had questions....

[Dr. Beckenstein]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

I'd say they only look like bowling balls, and I'd say they're made out of something else, entirely.
The stuff that dreams are made of, maybe? :)

They are eggs, of course!

[cptbutton]

Originally Posted by tshiggins

I've seen bowling ball cannons in action at the Longs Peak Scottish Irish Highland Festival in Estes Park (they shoot the balls at an inflatable pool toy that looks like the Loch Ness monster, floating out in the middle of a small reservoir), but I've never even heard of something like that at a church social. :)

TIL that salmon cannons are also a thing.

(To get them over dams.)

[Terebrant]

Secret documents being leaked! Are spies around or is it just a disgruntled gamer?

[L.J.Steele]

Museum of London's new display -- Fatburg! The Monster of Whitechapel.

https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/di...er-whitechapel