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Days of smoking, drinking long gone at the Brie

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Days of smoking, drinking long gone at the Brier


Sports | 206777 hits | Mar 10 9:42 pm | Posted by: Alta_redneck
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CALGARY � The sport of curling was once strongly associated with smoking and drinking, but to butcher the old Virginia Slims slogan, the Brier has come a long way, baby.

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  1. by avatar Alta_redneck
    Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:15 pm
    Looks like we got a lot of closet curling fans here. I thought maybe 15 or 20 hits at best. :lol: I love the game.

  2. by Regina  Gold Member
    Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:22 pm
    I think some of the ladies teams have a great start if they wanted to make a calendar. I saw a bunch of them at the airport a few weeks ago.......they were pretty hot. 8)

  3. by avatar raydan
    Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:25 pm
    I'll give the subject a hit.

    Even though I'm French Canadian, I love curling (must be because I lived in NS).
    Even played it for a while.

    As for the changing smoking culture:
    I used to work in a financial institution, the tellers served clients while smoking. Smoking on buses, during classes in college. I think that our physics teacher was smoking pot during classes. 8)

  4. by avatar Alta_redneck
    Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:42 pm
    "Regina" said
    I think some of the ladies teams have a great start if they wanted to make a calendar. I saw a bunch of them at the airport a few weeks ago.......they were pretty hot. 8)


    There is a calender. :lol:

    But no Canadian women participated, maybe because it was nude with curling gear placed in front, at discrete places.

  5. by avatar GreenTiger
    Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:25 pm
    I can see giving up smoking, but giving up the Mountain Due is a bit much.

  6. by avatar martin14
    Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:39 pm
    "Alta_redneck" said
    Looks like we got a lot of closet curling fans here. I thought maybe 15 or 20 hits at best. :lol: I love the game.



    ok, i'll fess up.. I like it.. I did it in high school for a semester.
    I liked the smoking and drinking too :oops:


    Guess even curling has gone like everything else..
    performance, working out, pyschology.. soon we'll have curlers
    testing for steroids. Man, I miss the old days.

  7. by avatar 2Cdo
    Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:42 pm
    "martin14" said
    soon we'll have curlers
    testing for steroids. Man, I miss the old days.


    I heard a while back that they were testing CHESS PLAYERS for performance enhancing drugs!

  8. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:29 am
    "martin14" said
    Guess even curling has gone like everything else..
    performance, working out, pyschology.. soon we'll have curlers
    testing for steroids. Man, I miss the old days.


    Your so right. I still long for the days when Bonspiel was a contest to see who could curl the drunkest and you had to sweep the ashes off the sheet before each rock.

    Now the only rocks I got are the ones in my head and my back goes out more than I do.



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