Rockpile – 2-12-2020
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Ben Krosnoski put up a dandy “771” series this past week on the Hometown League. Ben bowls on the M&M Bar team.
“Wado” Standaert and Dylan Dikeman each bowled a 278 game last week, also on the Hometown league.
On the Wednesday Nite Ladies league, Ellen Koosmann rolled a nice 231 game and put up a 531 series. Good bowling, keglers!!
We have a full schedule coming in this weekend for our 9-Pin tournament. I’ll update the leaders next week.
Note: Mark Eliason bowled a 299 game this past week, which is his best game ever!! Great bowling, Mark!!
Back When
• 1944 Song of the Day: “Pistol Packin’ Mama” – Bing Crosby
• 1954 Song of the Day: “There Stands the Glass” – Webb Pierce
• 1964 Song of the Day: “Begging to You” – Marty Robbins
• 1974 Song of the Day: “World of Make Believe” – Bill Anderson
• 1984 Song of the Day: “Show Her” – Ronnie Milsap
Events
• 1863 – General Tom Thumb (3’4″) and Lavina Warren (2’8″) were married. They were together until his death in 1883.
• 1942 – History’s first gold record was awarded to Glenn Miller for “Chattanooga Choo Choo”!!
• 1957 – The styrofoam cooler was invented.
• 1962 – Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960. He was flying a U-2 airplane.
• 2005 – North Korea revealed that it possessed nuclear weapons.
Quote of the Week: “I told my kids, ‘Someday, you’ll have kids of your own,’. One of them said, ‘So will you!’ ” – Rodney Dangerfield.
Bowling Fact: The optimal angle for a ball to hit the pocket is 6°.
All Dolled Up
A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.
One day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.
In trying to sort out their affairs, the old man took down the shoe box and took it to his wife’s bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box.
When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000. So he asked her about the contents.
“When we were to be married,” she said, “my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll.”
The little old man was so moved he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living, and loving! He almost burst with joy.
“Honey,” he said, “that explains the dolls, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?”
‘”Oh,” she said, “that’s the money I made from selling the dolls.”
Rockpile Reader of the Week
Cindy Thompson and John Jackelen of Glenwood City, Wisconsin.
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