Quick question, what are they refering to when pro curlers say "never". Don't know just heard it a lot during the Tim Hortons Brier.
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It means that the skip is telling the sweepers never to sweep the rock.\n\nThis could be for a few reasons but it usually means he thinks the rock needs to curl more to get to where he wants it to end up.\n\nHe is calling what is called the line  when he does this.\n\nMany times you will here this but then the skip changes his mind and tells the sweepers to sweep by yelling Hard or Go etc.
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Curling is a precision team sport similar to bowls or bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice by two teams of four players each, using heavy polished granite stones which they slide down the ice towards a target area called the house. Points are scored for the number of stones that a team has closer to the center of the target than the closest of the other team's stones. The level of precision and complex nature of the strategic thinking required to win has led curling to be referred to as "chess on ice."\n\nCurling is played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice into which two round, painted, archery-like targets (called the house) have been embedded. The game involves two teams of four players. These teams are called rinks and named for the team’s captain, who is known as the “skip”. Each team has eight polished granite stones, called stones or rocks, with which they try to score.\n\nDuring each round of play, called an end, each player slides two stones along the surface of the ice. Play alternates between teams, each throwing one stone on their turn. The person throwing the stone influences where the stone stops by the amount of force used, called the weight, the spin (turn), and the direction of the throw. Additionally, the final position of the stone is changed by sweeping or brushing the path in front of the stone to reduce curl and increase distance. Once all the stones have been thrown during an end, the score is determined and the play reverses direction back to the other house.\n\nThe players are known as the lead, second, third and skip, and traditionally throw stones in that order . The skip acts as the team’s captain, determining the position played by each player, strategy during the game, holding the broom in the house as a target for the shooters, and representing the rink. However, there is nothing in the rules to say where in the order the skip plays and in recent years the skip has thrown second or third stones on some teams.\n\nThe basic goal of each end is to have your curling stones nearer to the center of the target once all the stones from both teams have been thrown for that end. Therefore, the maximum number of points a team can earn per end is eight, though this is extremely rare because only the closest stones belonging to one of the two teams are counted. Strategies used during play, such as blocking (guard) and hitting rocks to reposition them (bump) or remove them from play (take-out) lead to lower scores. The term draw is used to describe a shot that comes to rest in the house without making contact with another stone. To peel means to remove both the target stone and the shooter's stone from play. For more information, see Types of shots below.\n\nTo help ensure the stone lands where intended, the skip stands in the house and indicates to the player throwing where to aim given the desired effect of the shot. The other two players sweep in front of the rock. Once thrown, players may not touch a stone while it is moving, so sweeping is the only way to influence the stone once thrown. Games, called matches, usually last eight ends, though in competitive curling there are usually ten ends and some recreational games last six ends.\n\nA competitive game usually consists of ten ends. Recreational games are more commonly only eight or even six ends. An end consists of each player from both teams throwing two rocks with the players on each side alternating shots, for a total of sixteen rocks. If the teams are tied at the completion of ten ends an extra end is played to break the tie. If the match is still tied after the extra end, play continues for as many ends as may be required to break the tie. The winner is the team with the highest score after all ends have been completed.\n\nIt is not uncommon at any level for a losing team to terminate the match before all ends are completed if it believes it no longer has a realistic chance of winning. Most competitive
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When it says "they never leave an old argument unsettled," I'm thinking it means men have a tendency to bring old arguments/problems up if they feel it hasn't been dealt with properly. They don't like to just "drop it." If that's foreshadowing, it should mean that in the future of this story or whatever it is, there will be a man who keeps bringing some fight up because even if it's in the past, it's still bothering him that it was never resolved.\n\nI hope this makes sense!
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She's a veteran athlete and as such she knows her body very well. If she says she can't skate, she can't skate. Sometimes you just have to deal with reality. That's life.\n\nIf she had attempted to skate, and had to quit mid-program, the same people who are saying she quit because she's afraid of the competition would be saying she was selfish to try to skate when she should have let the alternate replace her.
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First of all they aren't waving sticks in front of the stone. The "sticks" are small brooms that are used to create a path for the stone to follow. If the right spin and speed is placed on the stone when it is released then the sweepers can control where the stone goes to some degree.\n\nSecond, the name "Curling" today comes from the way the sweepers get the stone to "curl", or turn, during game play. If the stone has the right amount of spin and the sweepers create a clean path, then a stone can gradually make a 90 degree turn to get around other stones on the ice.\n\nThird, the players aren't shouting at the stone. Assuming the players are shouting at the stone is the same fallacy of assuming the coach is shouting directions at the basketball in the middle of the game. What the players are shouting is directions to each other to help know where they are trying to guide the stone. It is called "teamwork."\n\nBeyond that, Curling is a strategy sport similar to shuffleboard and bowling, but done on a team level and on ice.
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It's like a game of bocce ball. On pebbled Ice. Curling is played by "ends" like "innings" in baseball. \n\nThere are 10 ends. In each end only 1 team can score points. The team with the rock closest to the button is awarded one point for each of its own rocks that is closer than the opponent's closest rock. If you happen to have multiple stones closer to the "button" than any of your opponents stones inside the "house" those are added to your score. Each team throws 8 stones per end. A maximium of 8 points is possible per end. If both teams are outside the house, no points are awarded in that end. The "sweeping" is to smooth the surface out to allow the stone to move farther and move straighter. It's better explained at the link I have provided but I wanted to give my own interpretation.
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"And ye harm none, do what ye will"\n\nIt's basically the Golden Rule in different packaging.\n\nAnd don't forget, "harm none" also means don't harm yourself!  Putting yourself at risk of harm is as much a violation of the rede as putting someone else at risk.\n\nBlessed be.
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Curling is a new sport that is coming. I think it is very exciting and  would like to play. I think it is alot differnet then other sports (AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING NOW IF YOU HAVE PROBLEM WIT IT TO BAD FOR U.) (JK) (JUST KIDDING)
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Curling is a winter version of shuffleboard. It has two targets on both sides of a stretch of ice in which teams try to get their "Stones" closer to the center then the other teams.\nFor more detailed information go to the site listed below, be sure to read the introduction and also the section entitled "Basics of the Game"
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It's from a Three Stooges movie, "Gents Without Cents" made in 1944. Curly says \n"Niagra Falls" and Moe (who was under some sort of post-hypnotic suggestion? I don't \nremember) turns on him and launches into the speech. (I dunno. Seemed funny when I was \na kid.) See www.imdb.com for good sources of movie quotes, trivia, etc.\n\n: : This was also from an Abbott and Costello movie entitled "Lost in A Harem".\n: : Many of Bud and Lou's best-known routines were vaudeville and/or burlesque \nstandards. The "Niagara Falls" bit ("Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch...I \ntook my revenge.") was performed by many teams before becoming identified with Abbott \n& Costello.
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No-one\nEver\nReally\nDies
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One thought is that “absolutely” and “definitely” intensify the words they modify, and because “not” means “to no degree”, you cannot intensify nothingness.\n\nIn other words, you cannot intensify (or increase the degrees of) something that has not degrees.\n\n“Not” by definition is absolute; it can’t be absolutely absolute.
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Why is everybody so damned LAZY?  You want a great body, you WORK AT IT!  Does your sister know the long term effects of this shot?  I've never heard of such a thing!  Watch Rocky.  Hit some beef.  Work.  Sweat....naturally!  What is this world coming to?
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Asking why 'they' stopped talking about it, implies 'they' were talking about it at one point.  And I am not aware of anyone ever talking about this.\n\nSounds like a conspiracy to me.
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The U.S. had both a Men's and Women's curling team in the 2002 Winter Olympics.\n\nYou can find their names and brief bios at:\n\nhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/uscurling_bios/
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In an interview with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse (the shows writers) they said that this question "will never, ever be answered". Here's the specific question and answer and find the whole article over at lost-forum.com by following the link in the source section.\n\nQuestion:Will we get any clarification about the numbers this season?\n\nDamon: Carlton might want to punch me for actually going on record and saying this, but I think that that question will never, ever be answered. I couldn't possibly imagine [how we would answer that question]. We will see more ramifications of the numbers and more usage of the numbers, but it boggles my mind when people ask me, "What do the numbers mean?"
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Not as bad as Canadian hockey fans felt at the Olympics, but still pretty bad. I had my pro-Swiss answer deleted on YA France; it was considered "not an answer" but it was, I think they're touchy! LOL.\n\nOh and thanks for deleting the Sweden question.\n\nHopp Schwiiitz!