Brevity by Dan Thompson for February 04, 2021

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    pearlsbs  almost 4 years ago

    What’s the big dill?

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    It’s a good thing it isn’t called egg ball.

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    gopher gofer  almost 4 years ago

    to come up with that brainstorm they must’ve been pickled…

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    Jeff0811  almost 4 years ago

    Never heard of “Pickleball”. The closest I have seen to that is in baseball. I will have to look it up. Until then I am in a…a, oh what’s the word? Oh yes, a conundrum.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    The characters in “Working Daze”, who work in a tech company, play Pickleball…

    it’s assumed you know the game, so I figured it must be me… being so disinterested in sports that I’d never heard of it…

    along with the other game they play…. Cornhole.

     

    So I Googled them both….

    Pickleball is played on a badminton court, with a ball that ressembles a Whiffle ball and solid wood paddles …

    sort of table tennis, badminton and tennis combined.

    NOT my cup of tea, being completely non-athletic.

    Cornhole is more or less the same as what we called “Bean bag toss” but with a standardized target board, and “regulation” size bags filled with dried corn instead of beans.

     

    Since then, I’ve asked people I know, and NONE had heard of either game…

    but then, few of us are young people who work in stores and offices, where such teams are assembled.

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    amxchester  almost 4 years ago

    One of the inventors recently passed.

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    gammaguy  almost 4 years ago

    A misunderstanding. It was supposed to be a different kind of “ball”, with the dance band playing Dill Pickle Rag.

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    christelisbetty  almost 4 years ago

    Isn’t “Pickle” AKA “Keep Away” ?

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    mistercatworks  almost 4 years ago

    Pickle ball is to tennis as sodoku is to crosswords.

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    cuzinron47  almost 4 years ago

    While looking up information on pickleball, I saw an for pickleballs at Kohl’s, a carton of 100 for $200.00. I won’t be playing pickleball anytime soon, even though we have the courts.

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    TStyle78  almost 4 years ago

    I use to play pickle ball in high school. I was about the only thing I played in PE that I was any good at. I was the underclassman that took on both upperclassmen TAs and beat them. I did have a partner, but he didn’t do much. They were mad that I made them look bad, because I was bad at everything else and so they figured they could beat us easily. At first one of them tried it by himself and was badly beaten, lol.

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