Spring Cleaning

by Joe THE / DiscLife.com
May, 2002

I wonder who Bill Clinton was cheering for in the recently held Tonya Harding vs. Paula Jones "Celebrity Boxing" match…

Good day fellow disc golfers and those of you who may have accidentally wandered in to this site while Google-searching for big-mouth jerks. I hope these first few months of 2002 are treating you well.

I want to spend time in this installment of Joe THE to wrap up some loose ends from some previous articles, and throw a few hellos out to a couple of you. Don't worry…this isn't the end of my well of madness, just a chance to do a little "spring cleaning" of my own and to acknowledge some cool deeds of some fellow golfers.

In most of my articles, I look for input from all of you. This helps me to keep this interactive, and to allow you a chance to participate and have fun along with me and the other readers. For the past 15 months since I've been a contributor at DiscLife.com, I have received a couple hundred emails from you readers.

My first THANK YOU goes out to those of you who continue to drop by to check out my musings, and especially to those of you who have found the strength and courage to email me. It's been a lot of fun reading your input and then incorporating it into follow-up articles. Disclife has also provided me with the opportunity to meet golfers who are coming to Philly, and they email me asking if I can meet them at the course for some fun. This is how I met Mike Holgate, founder of Ching discs. We have kept up our back-and-forth emails since August of 2001. It's always great to hear from you Mike. And, a huge thanks for the Skill Shot basket you sent to me. I love it! And, a free plug for yah! For those reading this who are looking for a nice affordable portable basket, I recommend you check these baskets out. Mike, you roc(k)!

Back to the silliness……

In January of last year (2001), I penned the Describing a Bad Round article, and with your input, posted a follow-up with more descriptions on February 13, 2001. However, another set of responses were sent to me recently by Brad Hornal from Bowling Green, KY. Thanks Brad! Here's what Brad says after some bad golf: "I've seen enough bogeys to get the cold war restarted!" (let's hope not!!), or, he'll tick off with "I've had more blind shots than Ray Charles in a bordello!" Hey….I like Ray Charles!

I took you all on my Drive By Tour of Philadelphia last June, but if you ended up in the city, and took the tour by yourself, you may have gotten lost. Sorry about that. Lisa Smith and Dave Stembel, fellow Sedgley golfers, and also Gregory Shumate (from Reading, PA) were kind enough to let me know that I screwed up… it's the Ben Franklin Parkway that leads up to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and not JFK Parkway, as I incorrectly listed. JFK Boulevard is nearby, but does not lead up to the Museum. Jeez…is it any wonder I got the WinnieCrew lost (with me in the Winnie!) when I took them to Sedgley while they were in the area last summer! Heh heh heh Woooooops!

I was rambling along in July of 2001, and wondered what some uses for old discs could be. Chuck Ritter emailed me and said that some of his friends hang their old plastic on their walls, which is cheaper than modern art. I guess it could make for some interesting conversational pieces for people who have no idea what the discs are actually used for. He also said that his dishes don't get washed as often as they should, and discs could be used in a plate emergency. Thanks, Chuck, but I think I'll stick with take-out! Ray-J (you can call him Ray, or you can call him J) has the idea of flipping old discs over, filling them with quick-dry cement, and using them as decorative walkway stones. I like that…and as a joke you could slip one into someone's golf bag and wait for his or her reaction! ("What'd you throw there….a rock?!") And lastly, JPickIII said, in reference to the many minis he's received at tournaments, they make great coasters in a room full of disc golfers….until they have too many beers and begin throwing them around the house. I think this goes under the "risk vs. reward".

Quips from the Course, from December 2001, received good input from Kevin McCoy: