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“Sometimes, there’s a man. And I’m talkin’ about the Dude here - the Dude from Los Angeles. Sometimes, there’s a man…” So said the Stranger during a moment of Zen in the motion picture The Big Lewbowski. Parallels can be drawn between the finest bowling movie ever made and the results of last night’s bowling challenge. The truth be told it was not one man but a group of men who showed what they were made of. Five men to be exact. Five brave men who beat two other men and two women in February’s installment of the Head Company Social.

It all went down underground in a disused parking garage at the Tavistock Hotel…
This once proud car park had been turned into an orgy of bowling balls, oiled lanes and pin monkeys all writhing and mixing it up with the cheese cake cherries who strolled in to roll a few buckets.

The atmos was tense and the bar service slow but this didn’t faze the Fantastic team of Bennett, Khoury, Reddie, McFarlane and Dunne. They showed up to win. To win and to eat chicken wings by God.

The opening frame started with Bennett throwing a poodle down the right hand side, signaling that things were going downhill faster than a 6 pack through June Allyson. But as the night wore on the fellas gathered their strength and dug down into their own hearts of darkness, summoning up every ounce of bowling skill they had.
Two hours and many strikes (’strikes’ meaning ‘beers’) later the final combines scores stood at Team Fantastic = 370 Team Spastic = 367.

“We didn’t give a rat’s ass what the other team was doing. Our focus was on our own balls.” said Khoury at the victory party, “I mean they were just shit really.” And shitty they were as McFarlane adds in, “Now I’m not one to delve into hyperbole but the winning team probably bowled the best 2 games ever in the history of the sport”.

In all fairness the losing Spastic team of Chinery, Markland, Hawkins and Elliot were just too overwhelmed by the awesome display of ball to pin talent put on by the better squad, but as Markland suggested at least they had fun. “At least we had fun. I guess.”

Sadly a few people were unsociable. Kate Larsen could not attend the event as she was not up to the challenge and is severely lazy. Other missing rollers were Dave “7 - 10 Split” Hrycyszyn and John “What’s a ball?” Parnell who were rumoured to be doing something together.

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