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One pin from perfection!  I'm both happy and incredibly angry.  It's a weird emotion



:D >:(

Haha! That hurts.  I bowled a 299 back in 1975. 

I bowled a 64 last week...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5fm7QPA9zY

I bowled a 247 six years ago, and since then I had been trying to break 250.  I bowled a 247 about 8 times before beating it, a 248 about 4 months ago.  Then 3 weeks ago I finally broke the wall with a 278, 2 weeks ago I bowled a 269, and today I bowled the 299.  Seems like breaking that wall made a huge difference

Pretty nice.

Highest I've ever got is 114.  :-/
I blame it on the funny shoes!

[quote]Highest I've ever got is 114.

Awesome game!  My highest ever was a 280-something while bowling on my high school team. 

Whats a 299?

Whats a 299?

apparently its and almost perfect score of a bowling game (should be 300) Jake score only strikes until the end and took a photo of the score screen monitor ..please correct if I'm wrong I ask my self the same question early

Far out!  Congrats.  Well, almost perfect ain't bad.

11th grade, phys ed, they would take us bowling once a week, pretty cool.  I guess I was about a 120 or so, despite being in the middle of 4 years of weight lifting and could press & curl 100 pounds 10 times, I was still skinny and didn't have strong bowling arms.  They didn't really teach us how to bowl either, that would have helped.  But it's relaxing. 

You bowlers might appreciate this short film, made by my ex-girlfriend back in '81 at the local bowling alley. Watch for the guy with the "bowling excuses" T-shirt...

These guys weren't giving you tips were they? 

Whats a 299?

Bowling has 10 frames.  If you knock down all 10 pins on the first throw of a frame, you get a strike.  If not, you get a chance to pick up the remaining pins.  A perfect game is where you hit a strike every time for a total of 12 strikes (the 10th frame has 3 shots: the first shot, which if a strike earns you two because a strike is worth 10 pins plus the next two balls).  I had 11 strikes in a row, and on the last shot of the game I left one pin standing, which totals 299.  A perfect game is 300

[quote]Far out!