How many Oppo's like playing croquet?

"505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
11/17/2014 at 15:53 • Filed to: None

It is like my favorite thing to play. I am feeling like the time to play has passed with autumn, which we never really had up here. My MO is to run a non standard course, over the river and through the woods. This was over the fire pit and through the woods in my back yard. This was setup day, the following day we were too competitive to take pictures (competitive may = drunk)

Have a music video where some people are playing croquet.

DISCUSSION (24)

Party-vi > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:02

O_o

macanamera > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:05

Croquet is absolutely top, chap. When I'm not yachting or playing polo, croquet is my favorite lawn activity.

Scary__goongala! > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:06

In the wise words of Robin Williams "Fuck Croquet"

lol just kidding

During some family party my cousins and I came up with lazy bocce ball. Which entails walking while sitting in your lawn chair whenever you have to move. And you must be drinking the whole time.

BrownMiataDieselWagon > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:06

I don't know much about croquet, but I do love The Pharcyde!

505Turbeaux > Scary__goongala!
11/17/2014 at 16:06

my kind of sport, for real

Rainbow > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:07

It's only fun when I get the yellow ball.

Side note: If I was a pro golfer, I'd keep a croquet mallet in my bag just because. Also a hockey stick.

GhostZ > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:12

Of course.

With cars .

HammerheadFistpunch > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:13

Thats weird to hear that song mashed up

Thinking about this trail or some overlanding this weekend to boot!

BoulderZ > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:17

Always loved croquet, both traditional and creative courses. Fun variant, Adult Croquet: "Miss a shot, do a shot". Harpo Marx was a huge croquet devotee: http://librarycroquet.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/har…

He has a passage in his autobiography, Harpo Speaks, describing Woollcott's (a great big dude) gleeful dance at a great shot or victory, where he would pivot on the mallet "like blimp at tether".

Hoping I can get my yard in order enough for croquet and bocce. Right now it's so rough it'd be more like pinball.

505Turbeaux > BoulderZ
11/17/2014 at 16:18

you down south where you can play year round?

BoulderZ > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:20

Boulder, CO. You can play year round here, too, just not on turf. :) I'm using this winter (which got a late start two weeks ago but is making up for lost time) to lay out our new landscape plan, which will include irrigation and a chance at getting the yard truly fixed from previous owners'... "maintenance", let's call it.

PushToStart > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:22

damn, it's been a long time since I played croquet. I used to play it all the time at my grandparents' house with my cousins, and I was ALWAYS the red ball, or I wouldn't play, lol

505Turbeaux > BoulderZ
11/17/2014 at 16:24

lol makes sense. I swear I miss living in Denver like no other place. And hell, now I dont smoke cigarettes I would likely be more comfortable in Boulder. Never know when you are going to get snow in june, or a 70 degree day in January...I love it

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:24

All the best games can be played with a beer in hand.

505Turbeaux > PushToStart
11/17/2014 at 16:24

lol now you are the second person I have seen comment with a ball color preference. Rainbow prefers yellow

505Turbeaux > Rainbow
11/17/2014 at 16:25

sounds like my kind of golf too

Alfalfa > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:26

I love croquet, although I haven't played in ages. What comes to mind first, though, is the game I invented with my brothers and cousins with my grandma's croquet set. Each player had their own wicket in a corner of the yard to guard, and one ball was placed in the middle. When the signal was given, we would all run from our wickets to the ball and try to get it through any wicket but our own, while of course guarding our own wicket when necessary.

Those were basically all the rules. The game was aptly named "Pain".

505Turbeaux > Alfalfa
11/17/2014 at 16:27

uh, this sounds awesome. And painful depending on the size of the lawn

BoulderZ > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:30

Yeah, the whole front range, even most of the state, is pretty difficult for smokers these days, in bars/restaurants anyway. After a fashion, it's arguably a bit more free about smoking at home than most regions now, though. ;)

Our fall was gorgeous as usual, but really long. Highs in the 60s every day until the weekend of 8/9 November. That next week, lows below zero, some days never out of single digits, lots of gorgeous powder snow (heard 42" at Breck) and only today will it maybe get over freezing here. It's making me change some of my projects around, but I do love it.

Alfalfa > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 16:31

It wasn't very big. Have you ever watched rugby? It looked more or less like a scrum the entire time, but of course with mallets.

505Turbeaux > Alfalfa
11/17/2014 at 16:38

lol yeah I used to play in Denver in the pick up league.

PushToStart > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 17:11

It's not just a preference, it was a rule I lived by.

BZiel > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 17:56

When I was in college (some 30 years ago), four of us lived in a house on top a mountain surrounded on all side by cow pastures so steep a ball would roll a quarter mile before it came to a stop...no exaggeration. Me and the other guys bought a cheap-assed croquet set and proceeded to play that alcohol-fueled game for two years down 500ft drop offs, through cows legs, around a christmas tree farm, and across the Blue Ridge Parkway stone bridge over HWY 421 Deep Gap, NC. Hell, we even bought an aluminum baseball bat to hit the dam balls back up the cliffs.

Probably not your typical tournament croquet, as we didn't wear all white. Well, that, and we said "fuck" a lot.

I'll take 911 RS for $5000 > 505Turbeaux
11/17/2014 at 18:16

I enjoy it immensely. We usually try to play in VA after Thanksgiving dinner, and anytime my siblings and I all go home during the summer.

We setup a standard course (9-wicket) in the backyard, but that requires playing through the ancient swing set, the mole tunnels, and the trees, while also navigating changes in grass, and slope. Plus, if you roquet too hard there's a good chance you can send someone through the side yard into the driveway or down the hill into the woods.

Obviously it's enjoyable.