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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe Curling, where men use brooms vigorously. They just don't use them on the kitchen floor. The sweeps are usually carried out at low level and involve much shouting and grunting and heavy breathing. After the sweeps clear the way, the incoming strike arrives ... That starts when they slide their rocks on ice from house to house, trying to hit the button or smash their rocks against other rocks to knock them out of the house. I think it's a male domination ritual ... I do believe some females do it as well. Some nice, pretty, young ones as well. Although I think that they will use the broom on the kitchen floor . . . Remember this Curling? She looks very comfortable holding that broom like that. No idea what movie that was, but the only outdoor curling I ever did was the "Cordwood Bonspiel", where your brought your own "rocks" made of wood (turned on a lathe to make a cylinder, with a large spike bent several times to make the handle). Some players took an easier route and used a "jam can" or "paint pail" full of cement for the job. The key feature of these homemade rocks was that they didn't slide very well, and outdoor ice was not nicely pebbled. Of course the temperatures were not controlled either so the ice was not so slippery when it got more than 10ºF below freezing. And mom didn't like having her straw broom beat up by the sweeping - it usually left more straw junk on the ice than it cleared off anyway! But it got us outside and active.
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