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Re-evaluating a Personal Top Five
Mu Beta Started conversation May 16, 2004
The weekend's activities with Odo have given me a new entry in a Top Five that is very near to my heart. So, I now present...
Master B's Top Five Crazy Golf Holes
1) 'Counterweight' - Sandown, IOW (now sadly closed). A masterpiece of engineering, making the ball stop at the top of a ramp brought the counter weight into play and tipped the ball off at right angles towards the hole. Too hard and it went down the other side and was returned to your feet.
2) 'Loop the Loop' - Cleethorpes. A combination of skill and acrobatics. Hole in ones possible with great accuracy.
3) 'Mumbles Harbour' - Mumbles. NEW ENTRY! A very subtle little hole. Knock the ball through the cliff cutting but judge it dead right or it rolls round into the harbour where you haven't got a straight putt at the hole. Genius.
4) 'Flower 12' - Palma Nova, Majorca. A stream-jump and a clever little up-the-ramp, with some nastily postioned rocks and a cunning little return loop if you hit it too hard.
5) 'Lifebelt' - Mablethorpe. Pop the ball up the ramp and into the lifebelt. If you get it in the right quadrant it rolls straight into the hole. If not, you're left with either a returned ball, or a nasty little bank shot for 2. Immensely frustrating
B
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted May 17, 2004
You know, I don't think I've ever played crazy golf. Clrealy I've been missing out.
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Number Six Posted May 17, 2004
Hey, I was playing Crazy Golf on the weekend - Pymmes Park, Palmers Green, N12. 
Must be the new season, or something.
Have you ever played the 'Arnold Palmer' course on the seafront at Scarborough, B?
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Mu Beta Posted May 17, 2004
Is that near the funfair-y type thing over the harbour?
B
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Number Six Posted May 17, 2004
Ho yus. Unfortunately it was closed when I had that week back in January when I was spending most of my life there...
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Mu Beta Posted May 17, 2004
There's another very good one up near the leisure centre. And one in Filey, I believe.
B
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Mu Beta Posted May 19, 2004
And Kerr - yes, you have been missing out. It's a more than adequate outlet for bad sportsmanship and overcompetitiveness. Both of which I suspect you have a modicum of.
B
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Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted May 19, 2004
Hmmm no Windmill related hole? How can you leave out such an established classic of Crazy Golf.
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Mu Beta Posted May 19, 2004
They're no classics really, are they? And they always break.
B
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Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted May 19, 2004
bah! It aint Crazy golf if it aint got a crappy windmill that barely works 
...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted May 19, 2004
How dare you slur my character 
I'm no bad sportsman. Over competetive, yes
Err, I think there's a crappy little one in Shobnall Fields. If it's not being used as an underage shag-palace, I might wander up there sometime.
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A Super Furry Animal Posted May 19, 2004
>> underage shag-palace << What about Homer and Marge Simpson? Hardly in the bloom of youth!
RF
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted May 19, 2004
Mmm. I was just thinking about what the rest of Shobnall Fields is used for. I fail to see why the 14 year olds would treat the craxy golf park any better than the rest of it.
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Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) Posted May 19, 2004
"Underage Shag-Palace"? Didn't I hear them in session on the John Peel show last week?
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A Super Furry Animal Posted May 19, 2004
Playing their soon-to-be-a-hit single, "(Gettin' Down On) The Crazy Golf".
RF
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Mu Beta Posted May 19, 2004
Stop it! You'll give Odo ideas.
Hopefully...
B
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Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) Posted May 19, 2004
(insert "hole-in-one" joke here)
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A Super Furry Animal Posted May 19, 2004
I refer the honourable gentleman to the "The Simpsons" episode heretofore bementioned...um...previously. 
RF
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Mu Beta Posted May 19, 2004
Don't refer me. I've seen it! Refer her. 
B
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A Super Furry Animal Posted May 19, 2004
Oi! Odo! Watch that episode of The Simpsons!
That do?
RF
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- 1: Mu Beta (May 16, 2004)
- 2: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (May 17, 2004)
- 3: Number Six (May 17, 2004)
- 4: Mu Beta (May 17, 2004)
- 5: Number Six (May 17, 2004)
- 6: Mu Beta (May 17, 2004)
- 7: Mu Beta (May 19, 2004)
- 8: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (May 19, 2004)
- 9: Mu Beta (May 19, 2004)
- 10: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (May 19, 2004)
- 11: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (May 19, 2004)
- 12: A Super Furry Animal (May 19, 2004)
- 13: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (May 19, 2004)
- 14: Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) (May 19, 2004)
- 15: A Super Furry Animal (May 19, 2004)
- 16: Mu Beta (May 19, 2004)
- 17: Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) (May 19, 2004)
- 18: A Super Furry Animal (May 19, 2004)
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