Saving Mr. Calvin
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Comment from lancellot
Hmm, I see now we have gotten to the point and purpose of the time travelling around. To rekindle the men's joy and love of the game in order for them to save it. Whatever ideas they have were drawn out to carry on to the next chapter.
reply by the author on 22-Oct-2023
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Hmm, I see now we have gotten to the point and purpose of the time travelling around. To rekindle the men's joy and love of the game in order for them to save it. Whatever ideas they have were drawn out to carry on to the next chapter.
Comment Written 21-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 22-Oct-2023
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It took a while to get here, but hopefully their reconnaissance mission is clear by now, and they are sufficiently motivated to take action. Still a few surprises in store.
Comment from Pam Lonsdale
Should it be "newly-created feathery ball" instead of just "feathery"?
Is McDrone's the future of McDonald's? Just wondering:-)
Yes, I would think Paul and Ernie would have thought about what had happened most of the night - how do you not think about spending three lives in another time?!!
When I read this, and when I hear my husband "wax rhapsodic", I think of how running worked its way into my soul. For nearly 50 years now, I have been running. I took two short breaks when I was pregnant, and three when I was competing in bodybuilding shows (running made me "stringy looking"). Otherwise, I've never stopped, and can't imagine life without it. I think, perhaps, every athlete feels that way about their sport.
So, it sounds like the goal here is to bring golf into the new world, and making it all techy would be of interest to the young, video game set. Maybe the body of the game dies, but the soul lives on. I'm just waxing rhapsodic here, Jim:-)
Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
xo
Pam
reply by the author on 21-Oct-2023
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Should it be "newly-created feathery ball" instead of just "feathery"?
Is McDrone's the future of McDonald's? Just wondering:-)
Yes, I would think Paul and Ernie would have thought about what had happened most of the night - how do you not think about spending three lives in another time?!!
When I read this, and when I hear my husband "wax rhapsodic", I think of how running worked its way into my soul. For nearly 50 years now, I have been running. I took two short breaks when I was pregnant, and three when I was competing in bodybuilding shows (running made me "stringy looking"). Otherwise, I've never stopped, and can't imagine life without it. I think, perhaps, every athlete feels that way about their sport.
So, it sounds like the goal here is to bring golf into the new world, and making it all techy would be of interest to the young, video game set. Maybe the body of the game dies, but the soul lives on. I'm just waxing rhapsodic here, Jim:-)
Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
xo
Pam
Comment Written 20-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 21-Oct-2023
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Ask your husband if he's ever heard of a "feathery" (some spell it "featherie"), and I'll bet he has. That was the official name for the feather ball, which Aggie, Kirk, and Putt called it.
McDrones? I'm guessing McDonald's will get into that one of these days.
I imagine you're right about various sports working their way into people's souls. I've heard it said a number of times in sports movies, like Roy Hobbes when he said "God I love baseball" in The Natural and Coach Taylor saying the same thing about football in the TV series, Friday Night Lights. I think it's just something about the human condition. I loved the line from the movie The Legend of Bagger Vance when old Hardy Greaves says "God is happiest when his children are at play."
One last thing: Kevin's goal with the simulator is to make it appeal to everyone--not just the "techy" youth, but to the old farts like me who enjoy walking or even riding a cart, and smelling the fresh cut grass, and feeling the wind in my face. (Oops, I'm waxing nostalgic again!)
Comment from Kaiku
I can imagine where all of this is going. Have you seen the new miniature golf course called 'Popstroke'? A Tiger Woods development with partnerships. The game is seeing a new revival.
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2023
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I can imagine where all of this is going. Have you seen the new miniature golf course called 'Popstroke'? A Tiger Woods development with partnerships. The game is seeing a new revival.
Comment Written 19-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 20-Oct-2023
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I haven't actually seen one, but I have seen details of it on his website. It looks very cool.
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it is
Comment from Carol Hillebrenner
They do sound like the right combination to find a way to save golf. Paul's story about sneaking onto the course just before dark does make golf seem very special. I never thought about the smells and other sensations of being on a golf course just before dark. In Colorado the course was thin native grass with sand greens as well as dogs and geese.
reply by the author on 19-Oct-2023
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They do sound like the right combination to find a way to save golf. Paul's story about sneaking onto the course just before dark does make golf seem very special. I never thought about the smells and other sensations of being on a golf course just before dark. In Colorado the course was thin native grass with sand greens as well as dogs and geese.
Comment Written 18-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 19-Oct-2023
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That part was biographical. It's the Austrian pines that have a certain odor that only seems to come out at night. I speak from experience from my days as night waterman.
Comment from Lea Tonin1
He likes the red heads or the Ginger's as they are more commonly referred to at least here anyway! I would think the ultimate golf simulator will be very real and plant yourself right in the middle of the game, You may not know the difference between reality and simulator.
What it must be to be a professional golfer and all you had to do all day long was golf that would be cool. I used to take my son's pitch and putt that is the extent of my golf knowledge. I'm an excellent putter, a very c***** driver. Is the purpose in mind hurrah for the golf game!
Okay, so the last joke was a Dad joke. This one's has a little more meat to it, shall we say. Are you ready?
" What do a Walrus and Tupperware have in common?"
"They both like a tight seal!" Sooooo bad I know lol!
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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He likes the red heads or the Ginger's as they are more commonly referred to at least here anyway! I would think the ultimate golf simulator will be very real and plant yourself right in the middle of the game, You may not know the difference between reality and simulator.
What it must be to be a professional golfer and all you had to do all day long was golf that would be cool. I used to take my son's pitch and putt that is the extent of my golf knowledge. I'm an excellent putter, a very c***** driver. Is the purpose in mind hurrah for the golf game!
Okay, so the last joke was a Dad joke. This one's has a little more meat to it, shall we say. Are you ready?
" What do a Walrus and Tupperware have in common?"
"They both like a tight seal!" Sooooo bad I know lol!
Comment Written 18-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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Alright, here's a Dad joke for you: When I was younger, my dad used to roll me down the hill in tires. Ah, those were the good years! (GoodYears)
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Loyola. Ugh
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2 cows standing in a field, one cow says. "Aren't you afraid of getting mad cow disease?"
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2 cows standing in a field, one cow says. "Aren't you afraid of getting mad cow disease?" The other cow said "what for? i'm a squirrel."
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Boo!
Why do cows wear bells around their necks?
Because their horns don't work.
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Lol
Comment from barbara.wilkey
So, these three are doing to figure out a way to simulate those feelings of playing golf. This should be really interesting. I can't wait to see where your take this. I saw a few ways to tighten this post, but I've mentioned them in previous posts.
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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So, these three are doing to figure out a way to simulate those feelings of playing golf. This should be really interesting. I can't wait to see where your take this. I saw a few ways to tighten this post, but I've mentioned them in previous posts.
Comment Written 18-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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I hope it will. I hope I can present the ideas simply enough so that folks can understand them. I'm not an engineer myself, so they shouldn't be that difficult to follow. I just hope they aren't totally impracticable.
Comment from lyenochka
I think you waxed eloquently as your love of the sport really comes through here. I guess now we will see what three engineers can do together to revamp the sport to appeal to a fast-paced techy world.
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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I think you waxed eloquently as your love of the sport really comes through here. I guess now we will see what three engineers can do together to revamp the sport to appeal to a fast-paced techy world.
Comment Written 18-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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All those things I mentioned like my nose glued to the window of a moving car, watching golf courses from above in a jet, riding my bike, hopping the fence and playing at dusk were all things from my youth. It was easy to wax eloquent about it.
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I sensed it was autobiographical in those passages!
Comment from Wayne Fowler
Well written.
Hmm... three beautiful red-headed wives before... Not real sure you want to share that with the present wife.
diurnal - Whoa! You sent me to the dictionary!
simulator - as in flight simulator? where you actually swing clubs at a screen, or something?
Best wishes.
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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Well written.
Hmm... three beautiful red-headed wives before... Not real sure you want to share that with the present wife.
diurnal - Whoa! You sent me to the dictionary!
simulator - as in flight simulator? where you actually swing clubs at a screen, or something?
Best wishes.
Comment Written 18-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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Yeah, she keeps wondering about this, as she is (was) a brunette before turning gray.
They'll never know they are hitting into a screen!
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No ball? Imaginary ball?
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Partly, but not the one you strike.
Comment from Paul Manton
It's a plan! And it's a golf simulator, Jim, but not as we know it! (I'm getting that joke in every time!)
Well, this was a more pastoral and lyrical chapter, with beautiful evocations of 'the good old days'. Well done, Paul, for your moving contribution.
Also you used this passage to give a useful resume for new readers; that was very smart - so now most of us have a smattering of the three worlds of golf's 'history & future' - since no one in the present has yet experienced 'the suit'.
But the idea of a multi-sensory golf simulator - that is a masterpiece which you guys can certainly produce. You - and no-one else.
Thanks for this one, Jim.
Paul
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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It's a plan! And it's a golf simulator, Jim, but not as we know it! (I'm getting that joke in every time!)
Well, this was a more pastoral and lyrical chapter, with beautiful evocations of 'the good old days'. Well done, Paul, for your moving contribution.
Also you used this passage to give a useful resume for new readers; that was very smart - so now most of us have a smattering of the three worlds of golf's 'history & future' - since no one in the present has yet experienced 'the suit'.
But the idea of a multi-sensory golf simulator - that is a masterpiece which you guys can certainly produce. You - and no-one else.
Thanks for this one, Jim.
Paul
Comment Written 18-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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True, a little beyond what we know it. This was the really fun part of the novel for me--thinking how this thing might work. Still not sure how practicable it will be, but it sure was fun thinking about it.
Thank you so much for your wonderful review, Paul.
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Great job, Jim.
Now in fist fight over rankings!
Tom is not convincing me.
Comment from Debbie D'Arcy
Oh very clever, Jim! Your lovely story brought everything together with passion and evocative detail, reminding the reader of the sequence of events leading up to this inspirational moment of decision. Your writing is, as ever, flawlessly, rich in colour and delight just like those fairways from the plane:) Well done! Debbie
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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Oh very clever, Jim! Your lovely story brought everything together with passion and evocative detail, reminding the reader of the sequence of events leading up to this inspirational moment of decision. Your writing is, as ever, flawlessly, rich in colour and delight just like those fairways from the plane:) Well done! Debbie
Comment Written 18-Oct-2023
reply by the author on 18-Oct-2023
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Thank you so much, Debbie. And now for the fun part where we see what the simulator has in store.