My longest blog title ever, and it's for these unused, still carded, old store stock, silly gag gift medals aimed at the hot mess gutter kings 'n queens on your Wednesday night league. Is your team cursed with bowlbonic plague? Are you leery about saying something to wrongfoot just because they occasionally pay for the pretzels and beverages-- even after they've caused you to lose yet another big one? Try awarding them for their sloppy brownouts --there's actually a medal for these messy men and weak-link women! What fine form each one represents too! So. Get the picture? Now, please go out and stand in a field, somewhere far away instead... thank you!
These are pretty cool; I wonder how many of these gag gifts got handed out in bowling alleys? You wouldn't do this now-a-days because you'd probably start a fight!
ReplyDeleteAs always, I love really kinetic art that manages to do it in small size with a limited color palette. There's a lot of skill in that.
There are five vacancies on this card, I can only guess they were given out as a light hearted award to grown ups or to youngsters before participation trophies were a thing.
ReplyDeleteNeat find, thanks for sharing.
Hah! Pretty niche. I feel like I rate one of these--I'm just that good!--but I've never joined a league or spoiled anybody's chances for a trophy. All I've done is bowl perfectly poorly on my own dime. And even that only rarely.
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