Fancy a game of minigolf?

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There is no decent minigolf to be had around where I live, and it's been ages since I've played it. I've got a hankering to play it again, though. What about you?

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 7 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Can we use our manly members as putters?

― Oops (Oops), Friday, 7 February 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Come on, man!

FANCY A PUTT?

Are you not thinking?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 7 February 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit, Oops took my line!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 February 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, Dan, here ya go:
*hands back line*

― Oops (Oops), Friday, 7 February 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris.. I feel your pain. One of the things I miss most about southern California is the abundance of wacky colorful mini-golf amusement parks in every suburb. That said, I know there are a few in the Seattle area to be sure. They may not be the same, but I've yet to round up some folks give them a shot.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 7 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Can we use our manly members as putters?"

(It's just not the same... *sob*)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 February 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Teeny, you are so painfully right.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 7 February 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

According to Andy Miller, (author: Tilting at Windmills, a book in which he roses to represent England at the european minigolf championships), there is an 'Adventure Golf' course in croyden but i know not where.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Also if you don't think penises were on my mind when I asked this question, you missed half the point.

The other half, however, is an earnest love of minigolf. I spent a few summers in Myrtle Beach, SC, which has some phenomenal minigolf courses. And the first time I went to Las Vegas we went minigolfing at 3 a.m., proving once again that New York is not the city that never sleeps: Vegas is, baby.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

DB: Next time I'm up there, maybe we'll give it a whirl. Or... a putt. Or something.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"adventure golf", Ed? WTF?

Last time I played crazy golf (UK usage to distinguish the stuff with colourful obstacles, ramps and chutes from simple putting greens) I was injured by Andrew L. He got frustrated at some hole and whacked the ball really hard. It ricocheted off something and hit my knee. I collapsed, onto my putter which jammed into the ground and severely bruised my solar plexus. Be warned!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Putt putt for the fun of it.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

English Crazy Golf Courses

― Ed (dali), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Minigolf = sport of kinds. Father Ted's minigolf course = lacking.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 February 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, minigolf - the cheapest way to do something "adventurous" here in the town the mouse built. Words of advice: Avoid ALL minigolf courses at Disney, unless you've an iron stomach and ears, to handle the sickly-sweetness of it all, complete with endless rounds of horrible music and sreaming touristy kids and all. Only redemeaning feature of the "Winterland" park - it's next to one of the "lakes" (otherwise known as drainage ponds) and if you time your visit right your game can be interrupted by ducks and geese leading their babies across the fake putting greens and the babies sometimes chasing your ball and knocking it out of place. Listening to pissed-off, badly sunburnt, middle-America fathers who have had far too much of Disney and their kids and spending money and who now have to tolerate the waterfowl wandering through and disrupting the game and occasionally doing their business on the balls, can be a pleasant way to pass time.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 8 February 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

DB, you have to check out the minigolf place down at the end of 405 in Tukwila, right off the exit ramp to the West Valley Highway. We talked a friend who's a serious golfer into going there once, and bringing his golf shoes and real putter out onto the course, and had the rest of the people there staring at him lining up his putts through the windmills & such.

There's also one inside the arcade building next to the Space Needle which has a mini-Microsoft campus as one of the holes. I've never played it,though. :- (

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 8 February 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi Mslaura, we used to live in Orlando and we often played minigolf down on International Drive because Orlando was a horrible place to live and there was hardly anything there that we wanted to do apart from play minigolf and ride on Back to the Future at Universal Studios (we lived on Kirkman and had annual passes). I can taste the humidity and the stench of chlorine even as I type. The place we played at had baby alligators in a moat thing out the front. Have you been to Numero Uno, a Cuban restaurant on (I believe) Orange Blossom? It is good.

You've got me laughing remembering Orlando's thousands of "lakes".

My gift to you: Don't ever, ever have the breakfast buffet at Shoney's.

― estela, Saturday, 8 February 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

FEAR SCANDIA

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Saturday, 8 February 2003 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

when i was a teenager, some high school friends and myself went down to the Jersey Shore. we got drunk and ended up at a pitch-and-putt mini-golf on the Seaside Heights boardwalk. we were being "serious" at first -- trying to hit the ball through the windmill and the hippo-mouth. at some point, we got sick of that dumb shit and just whacked the fuckers onto the boardwalk and the beach.

we were told (not very nicely) to leave -- we were lucky we didn't get arrested.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 8 February 2003 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Golf 'n Stuff

you have to check out the minigolf place down at the end of 405 in Tukwila

Ah, "Tukwila" I sigh, from 3000 miles away. Do I hear a Puyallup?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 8 February 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Megabowl,
Valley Park Retail & Leisure Complex, Purley Way, Croydon CR0 4YA
Telephone: 020 8686 1166

I've been round it, it's great.

― Simeon (Simeon), Saturday, 8 February 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Make that Golf 'n Stuff

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 8 February 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I love WA names: Puyallup, Nooksack, Walla Walla, Poulsbo.... argh, I really need my coffee if those are the only funny ones I can remember right now.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 8 February 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

You forgot Tillicum (my favorite), Mukilteo, Steilacoom, and Chuckanut.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 February 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, those are good ones.

I also just brewed a full pot of coffee & discovered I have only a smidge of milk left. Damn it! I don't want to walk to City Foods & pay $4.00 for a half gallon to get more, but I'm not in any state to drive to Safeway.

From BC: Nanaimo, Tofino, Ucluelet

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 8 February 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Kamloops, Sooke, Banff

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 February 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Hello Estela - I envy the fact that you have apparently escaped from Florida - some day I hope to be able to say "I too made it out of the state, in one piece an not too disgusted by humanity."

I have played minigolf on I-Drive - at a Pirate-themed place with a challenging course - probably the only one I actually like in the area. But I avoide I-Drive like the plague as best I can.

I've not tried Numero Uno, but I just sent an email reminder to myself - thanks for the recomendation *grin*

We've annual passes to Disney so I can go watch the tortoises and bats at Animal Kingdom - I've only done Universal once - though I do want to see Islands of Adventure, I think.

Thanks for the warning about Shoney's *laughing* I had a bad experience there for a work/lunch thing and have run screaming from it ever since. Actually, I avoid buffets most of the time - and then I read "Kitchen Confidential" and I've decided I'll starve before eating at another one.

Be well *smile* And think of me stuck in the swamps, yearning to break-free and live some place where the rivers actually *flow* instead of stagnate.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 8 February 2003 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi Laura, I have been corrected: Numero Uno is on Orange, not Orange Blossom. I hope you don't have to live in Orlando for too long, or that you get used to it: we hated it, especially at first, and were really happy to leave. The heat was intolerable and people were difficult to relate to.

We think our minigolf place had some kind of Aztec Adventure theme; I have faint memories of glowing masks and trickling water and caves (and sullen employees sporting canker sores).

Good luck. I know *exactly* what you're going through!

― estela, Sunday, 9 February 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

*laughing* Thanks for the clarification on Numero Uno's location, Estela. My latest favorite place is on Aloma - by Pebbles and the Whole Foods Market and such, just west of 436/Semora - it's a *real* Spanish food restaurant called, I think, Cafe Aragon. To die for! (Though the service is amazingly slow, unfortunately.)

Next time I'm on I-Drive I'll look for your minigolf place, repleat with the glowing masks and all. (Though I shall try to avoid the sullen employees with canker sores as I am feeling snobbish.)

I've been here for five and a half years - I don't mind the winters and falls, and love the native wildlife and the birds and such, but REALLY dislike most of the population and the urban sprawl and the backwardness of everything. But last night I went and walked on the beach and that cheered me up a bit :)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 9 February 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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