Pick Your Favorite Activity: A Public Poll

[Danger]

Reading for sure. Sex for sure. Shooting (when I can own guns again). PF for sure. More sex. Driving, when I get my license back. Flying (can't afford it). League (or casual) pool and darts. Being a bar-fly. Watching TV. A couple of computer games such as mah-jongg solitaire. NTN when it was available in town.

 

[BobG]

Reading for sure. Sex for sure. Shooting (when I can own guns again). PF for sure. More sex. Driving, when I get my license back. Flying (can't afford it). League (or casual) pool and darts. Being a bar-fly. Watching TV. A couple of computer games such as mah-jongg solitaire. NTN when it was available in town.

I spent a year on a remote assignment to Alaska. By the end of the year I was incredibly good at pool. Our little outpost had a 4-person pool team entered in a league (each bar in the general area had a team). Between one of the firemen and I we were a lock to win virtually every match, since it was highly unlikely we would lose more than one game between us and it was also unlikely that the other two members of the team couldn't win at least two games in their matches. Alas, that's the only time I've ever played so much pool.

I also became a pretty good defensemen in floor hockey (you can't generally ice skate outside in the winter in Alaska. It's too cold - you'll freeze your butt off). I even scored a hat trick once (unfortunately, only two were into the opponent's goal, but when you're close to scoring a hat trick, you do what you got to do.)

Edit: I was never as strange as the parent of one my daughter's friends. He became incredibly good at ping-pong while on a remote assignment. He'd play himself - both sides of the table. Incredibly impressive in a way, but really, really strange.

 

[Danger]

He'd play himself - both sides of the table. Incredibly impressive in a way, but really, really strange.

I do that with darts, right against left hands, but this dude must have been spookily fast. Did he stand in the middle and switch hands, or actually run from end to end?
We might have been in the same pool league, just different categories. We're VNEA, and now also sanctioned for BCA. Our teams used to be 5 player 15 game format; now it's 3 player and 15 games. Finals are in Vegas at the end of May/beginning of June.

 

[BobG]

I do that with darts, right against left hands, but this dude must have been spookily fast. Did he stand in the middle and switch hands, or actually run from end to end?
We might have been in the same pool league, just different categories. We're VNEA, and now also sanctioned for BCA. Our teams used to be 5 player 15 game format; now it's 3 player and 15 games. Finals are in Vegas at the end of May/beginning of June.

Our league consisted of the bars from Nenana to Healy. We also had a basketball league (which I didn't play) that covered the same area. I remember the first time the Nenana Native Tribe came to play one of the military teams - you had the teenage kid, his dad, and grandpa and a couple of others making up a pretty motley looking group. One look and you knew it was going to be a blow out. It was - just the opposite way I would have thought. I felt sorry for our guys. Those other guys were good!

The worst moment in the game was the start of the second half. One of the Nenana players seemed a little puzzled and had to check with the ref which basket each team was shooting at. The ref confirmed that they were, indeed, switching baskets, same as every game. So the player shrugged his shoulders, tossed the ball into one of his players standing under the basket, who tossed in an easy lay-up while our players stood at the opposite end of the court by the same basket they defended in the first half. Talk about a team being totally befuddled! I think that was the moment they gave up on any hopes of a second half comeback.

We also had a volleyball league that I did play in. We had a great championship match. The team we were playing had a woman schoolteacher as their star. The match turned when she caught her legs on a team mate left behind on Earth and landed on her head, forcing her to leave the game. Then, with her team losing in the third and decisive game, she leaps up from her stretcher, throws the ice aside, and re-enters the game. We just barely survived their comeback. (We were just lucky the Healy team had to withdraw at mid-season. We wouldn't even had made the championship if they stayed in the league).

 

[Andre]

My favorite pastimes included plants, classic music and poetry, cultivating bonsai, art, painting and air brushing, specializing in portraits (I can be hired), but then somehow I got a scientific missions and I sort of dropped all of them.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I checked reading, cooking, and other. Under other (aside from the obvious) would be chess, go, billiards, being a bar fly(thank you for reminding me Danger), writing, and various artistic endevours.

 

[Francis M]

Hiking, reading. I didn't check eating (it's a survival thing not an enjoyment thing ). Same with showering someone put under other. dirty=unhealthy at some point .

Others would be biking, radio control airplanes, rockets, tactical/strategic games, computer games/sims, RPG's (roll playing games not rocket propelled grenades ).

 

[Mk]

"Physics is to mathematics as sex is to masturbation"

All four!

 

[DeadWolfe]

Drinking.

Lots of drinking.