Word: croqueted
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...funny. In fact, he's so unfunny . . . he's funny!" But the act was largely the one he had honed for years in other venues. He developed Happy Feet in his living room. He learned juggling from the court jester at Disneyland; Steve practiced at home with croquet balls and badly bruised his fingers. Or take the hat-with-the-arrow routine (please). "It was a thing we used to sell at Disneyland," Martin says. "It goes back to the theory, 'God, these gags are so dumb!' By the end of the act I was wearing the hat with...
Almost no amateur golfers play by the rules. They have come to an accommodation with themselves and one another to bump the ball in the fairways or nonchalant it on the greens. The game most of them play combines croquet with tiddledywinks. But they know the rules. Alerted by the whistle blowers, P.G.A. tour officials penalized Stadler two strokes for innocently "building a stance" with his flat towel and then disqualified him entirely because the scorecard he had signed the day before was now incorrect. Some might say the punishment fit the crime no better than the pants...
With the shortage of facilities and general lack of knowledge concerning the sport, you might wonder how these Quincy House residents got involved in croquet...
...these guys in the [croquet] club who said they were going on a free trip to New York and asked me to join, and I wanted to go to New York so I did," admitted Anderson...
...three years after Anderson's first experience with competitive croquet, he's still playing because, quite simply, "croquet...