Can I get an answer without just quotes from the movie?

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skinnyev@reddit

It’s because the league office is run by a kraut.

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81jmfk@reddit

Also Dude, kraut is not the preferred nomenclature. German-American please.

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michaltee@reddit

Germans huh? Nothing changes…fucking Nazis.

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bluescale77@reddit

Oh, come on u/81jmfk, they were threatening castration! Are we gonna split hairs here?

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DummBee1805@reddit

My 63rd favorite thing about this movie: Walter double-checks the name of the guy who runs the league office so he can use the correct racial epithet.

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thedudeabidesb@reddit

good catch. that absolutely IS HILARIOUS. Am I wrong? Am I wrong?

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Darkshines47@reddit

The Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint!

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neogeo828@reddit

I knew you guys wouldn't disappoint! I love this sub.

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ThirdHandTyping@reddit

Has the whole world gone CRAZY!?!? AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULES?!?!

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mkingoxford@reddit

I have buddies who died FACE DOWN in the MUCK so that YOU AND I can enjoy this FAMILY restaurant!

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CampSubject9176@reddit

It’s league play Smokey. There’s no Fukin amateurs allowed. That’s why you have a team of draft dodgers on 22, a Nam Vet on 23, and a team of old China men on lane 24.

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IamjustaBeet@reddit

Everything is a fucking travesty with you man

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Over in the Star War sub, there's a line that I think Harrison Ford said in an interview or sonething, that gets trotted out often when someone asks a question about a highly technical detail, like a matter of physics in space. Seems appropriate here.

"It's not that kind of movie, kid."

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The_ZombyWoof@reddit

Mark Hamill on the Seth Meyers Show

https://youtu.be/onMm0DLg8CE?si=Ns8Ogg4_e9zjgJpM

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glue_lagoon@reddit

Well, there isn’t a literal connection.

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classy_dirt7777@reddit

The Coen Brothers or the other producers didn't seem to think it mattered. Or didn't know enough about league bowling to change this detail.

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YankeeClipper42@reddit

It was a production thing. There wasn't enough space for Smokey and the Cavaliers to sit with Donny, Dude, Walter, and the fucking Pomeranian while shooting the scene. So the Coens had them sit on the next spot over.

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Snatchl@reddit

Next spot over…

But I wudn’t over

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DatSauceTho@reddit

u/Snatchl you are entering a world of pain…

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BlankSlate400@reddit

Am I wrong?

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Nsflguru@reddit

You’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.

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TiminatorFL@reddit

This dude produces.

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Illustrious-Hair3487@reddit

I’m just going to reply here to keep the earnest answers consolidated in one place.

It could be that Smokey was in an entirely different match, which would make it even funnier/crazier that Walter flips out. Walter/Dude/Donny may have just been waiting for their match on their lane with Dude keeping score for Smokey’s match as a courtesy.

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Nice_Improvement2536@reddit

Were you listening to the Dude’s story?

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gruby253@reddit

I was bowling.

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AbruptMango@reddit

I wasn't over. Gimme the marker, Dude, I'm marking it an 8.

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MornGreycastle@reddit

Am i the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?!

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Icy-Degree-5845@reddit

Yeah but I wudn't over.

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DatSauceTho@reddit

They’re callin the cops, man…

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funkypunk69@reddit

Tending the chickens, heating up leftovers, hanging with the fam...

chill as fuck

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Zer0daveexpl0it@reddit

Anyone flash their piece out on the lane?

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wizardneedfood@reddit

I, myself, dabbled in pacifism once...

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Mind_if_I_do_uh_J@reddit

Yep. Now it's up my ass.

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RedditFact-Checker@reddit

Was the trigger pulled until it went "click"?

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Mind_if_I_do_uh_J@reddit

This is our concern, Dude.

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Darkshines47@reddit

Calmer’n you are.

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omega_red24@reddit

Walter says it's to see who enters the next round robbin. Doesn't say smokey, Walter, the dude were playing each other... independent games. This is in the time before digital scoring, perhaps dude is just keeping score for both games, which makes sense because they are in adjacent lanes.

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ciocras@reddit

Separate incidents!

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KelownaMan@reddit

Then whose team is Donny on?

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michaltee@reddit

Yep. And if Smokey’s team got into the next round robin after an 8 was marked when he went over the line…well, that ain’t right either.

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N00BY_D00@reddit

What are you, a fucking Park Ranger now?

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benificialbenefactor@reddit

This is the answer. I am old enough to have experienced this.

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Imnotreallythere@reddit

They might not be playing directly against each other in that game. Ive seen leagues take up a few lanes, depending on how many teams are in it. Smokey and his team might be playing another team. However, as in most sports/competitions, the results of a different team may affect standings for other teams. Calling out the toe over the line, might not help Walter and his team directly, but in the standings it may make a difference depending on how close they are in points. Abide.

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Cool-Attorney4750@reddit

So lane wise he's pretty cool?

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funkypunk69@reddit

you wouldn't know me in a crowd

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thebeakman@reddit

Are we meaning "know" in a biblical sense?

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Desperate_Jump_3062@reddit

What in God's holy name are you blathering about.

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Bullshit_Conduit@reddit

They might not be playing against them, but wins count as points in leagues, no? Why should Walter want anyone to get points for a W when they were over the line?

Tournament seeding, man.

If i saw someone on another softball team in my league cheating I would tell on them.

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Hot_Paper5030@reddit

You're obviously not a golfer.

Obligatory quote out of the way, the movie is set in 1990 in Los Angeles. Do we know the rules of league play in 1990 in LA - possibly Hollywood even? Maybe in the Valley?

Has new information come to light, man?

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OldRaj@reddit

You clearly don’t care about the rules.

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BlankSlate400@reddit

That’s the way they shoot scenes in a beaver picture.

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DingJones@reddit

You mean vagina?

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peauxtheaux@reddit

I mean, you know the guy?

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stuff_happens_again@reddit

Know him? I may have introduced them.

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Mechanical_Monk@reddit

Ok, but how does all this add up to an emergency?

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Is_This_Real_Life_82@reddit

What is that? Some eastern thing?

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MellowDCC@reddit

No

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torontopeter@reddit

OP YOU’RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT!! This sub is all about the quotes.

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badforman@reddit

You gotta date Wednesday!

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melosurroXloswebos@reddit

Was this BULLshit?! I don’t give a fuck! It don’t matter to Jesus!! You might fool the FUCKS down at the league office but you don’t fool Jesus!

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gtaguy75@reddit

Who you gonna call?

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willardTheMighty@reddit

That had not occurred to us, Dude.

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jc4200@reddit

You're gonna get quotes, and you're gonna like it!

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SafeItchy6145@reddit

It was probably easier to shoot.

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Particular-Word1809@reddit

Who the fuck IS this guy?

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jerseycitymax@reddit

I’ll suck your cock for a thousand dollars.

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Ok-Lavishness-7904@reddit

Probably just a better angle for filming. The opening bowling sequence has 5 bowlers completing their deliveries one right after the other, and proper etiquette involves a pause to let bowlers on either side complete their follow through

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TheoryAffectionate99@reddit

I am the Walrus.

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Vegetable-Put3884@reddit

I’m just glad there is somebody here who gives a shit about the rules. I take comfort in that.

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PungentOnion@reddit

Question I have is there are 3 of them so why are they playing against 2? Unless Donny is a figment of Walter’s imagination

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Ordinary-Election-94@reddit

You can imagine where it goes from here…

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thatschate@reddit

Separate incidents !

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big_MIDGET6@reddit

Oh please, dear?

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jonahsocal@reddit

Youre entering a world of pain if you demand an answer to a question like that from a sub like this.

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Blueshockeylover@reddit

Clearly you’re not a golfer.

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sexwiththebabysitter@reddit

Obviously

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peauxtheaux@reddit

Obviously

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peauxtheaux@reddit

Obviously..you are not a golfer.

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LastUserStanding@reddit

Yeah but it went alright. Dude’s scene got a little dinged up.

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KickComprehensive765@reddit

Have it your way dude

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ish--mayel@reddit

This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass.

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nobodycares888888@reddit

Well, I can see you don’t want to be cheered up here. Come on, Donny. Let’s go get us a lane.

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VVOLFVViZZard@reddit

‘nother Caucasian, Gary.

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mkingoxford@reddit

Friends like this huh Gary???

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JakeFixesPlanes@reddit

That’s right Dude

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JakeFixesPlanes@reddit

That’s right Dude

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AdultishRaktajino@reddit

Maybe there was a little prick stonewalling them on lane 24 and the alley was waiting on the repair man being dispatched to fix the pin setter on 21.

I mean uh... hasn’t that ever occurred to you, man? Sir?

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custyflex@reddit

Que ridículo!

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TheB1G_Lebowski@reddit

Hell yeah man, I got a rash.

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Albus_Q@reddit

What in God’s holy name are you blathering about?

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DSTNCMDLR@reddit

u/Greglebowski74 was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling

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OkieDragonSlayer@reddit

Two lanes really brought the alley together, did it not?

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Cool-Attorney4750@reddit

Life does not stop and start at your convenience

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RobbMeeX@reddit

You miserable piece of shit!

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ProfessionalDig6987@reddit

Well Dude, we just don't know.

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papa_f@reddit

I mean say what you will about the tenets of national socialism dude, at least it's an ethos

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eronbreen@reddit

That must be exhausting.

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sweatpantsDonut@reddit

maybe Walter made them split into two lanes. Everything is a fuckin' tragedy with him.

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eronbreen@reddit

I’m not Mr. Lebowski. You’re Mr. Lebowski.

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DoctorCockedher@reddit

I’m guessing that the producers just didn’t know the convention. It’s like when I watch movies that depict the U.S. military or tactics and think, “if only they had a consultant on board.” But that’s just because:

”Who am I? I’m a fucking veteran! That’s who I am!”

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papa_f@reddit

Hey, fuckin fascist

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SpringTour77@reddit

Why are you being a hard-on about this? But you’re right, that contravenes a number of Venice Beach League by-laws.

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michaltee@reddit

Hey come on man, he’s not tryna scam anybody here.

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WilltheNYJetseverwin@reddit

Yes, yes! The Stranger warned you it's stupifying. I ain't never seen a bar that close to the lanes either, but I ain't seen the queen in her damned undies either. I'm flunking social studies and I am the walrus.

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michaltee@reddit

We know it’s your fucking homework! Where’s the fucking money you little shit?!

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mclms1@reddit

Obviously your not a golfer.

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Cool-Attorney4750@reddit

These quotes draw a lot of water in this sub. You don't draw shit, OP

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analogkid01@reddit

You're like a child who picks apart the details of a movie and wants to know--

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ahawl03@reddit

That had not occurred to us, dude. New shit has come to light!

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canada1913@reddit

I think it helps make the separation between them, they can freely talk shit about the Jesus while not being in earshot. I do believe that when the cohen brothers made this movie, they make every single matter, every nuanced set piece, and word has some kind of thing about it. I like to believe they didn’t just say “fuck it dude, let’s go bowling” over any details.

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CatBoyTrip@reddit

You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?

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Particular-Wrongdoer@reddit

Talk to that Kraut Buckhalter.

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jonnyredshorts@reddit

We just don’t know, dude

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Queencitybeer@reddit

Listen you human paraquat, I played in a pretty casual league and we had 2 lanes. We’d play 4 games. We switched sides after each game. So each team played 2 games on each lane.

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draynay@reddit

What are you, a fucking Bowling Alley Ranger now?

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ThirdHandTyping@reddit

Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling.

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lillychr14@reddit

It’s because those fucks down at the league office are the laziest in Los Angeles County putting them in the running for laziest worldwide.

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gloriosky_zero@reddit

Don't be fatuous u/GregLebowski74

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Haunting_Ant_5061@reddit

“Can I get an answer…?”

I’m sorry, I wasn’t listening.

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10BAW@reddit

You're killing your father!

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MichaelStahlke@reddit

Now so far, we have what appears to me to be a series of victimless crimes.

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NotQuiteSober98@reddit

I’ve got certain information, certain things have come to light.. uh… Has it ever occurred to you.. uh.. that instead of… uh.. y’know.. running around.. uh.. uhhh… blaming this subreddit.. y’know, given the nature of all this new shit… y’know… I-I-I-I… ehhhh.. this could be a lot more uh.. uh.. uh… uh.. uhhhhh… complex… I mean it’s not just/it might NOT be just such a simple… uhhh… y’know?!?

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TheSpaceman1975@reddit

Look, you’re gonna have to take this up with Gary.

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StickyLafleur@reddit

I told that crowd a thousand times I don't roll on Shabbos

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D43m0n1981@reddit

Shut up u/greglebowski74 you’re out of your element!

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voyagergreggo@reddit

Okay sir. You're a Greg, I'm a Greg. That's terrific.

But I am very busy, as I imagine you are.

What can I do for you, sir?

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bebopgamer@reddit

OP is getting the quotes they richly deserve, but I'll venture an explanation.

In my experience, when a bowling alley has league play it's typically the whole alley, that is to say: on league nights (typically week nights, T, W, or Th, leaving the weekends for families and "casuals") every or almost every lane in the place is a league team. They are all tracking their scores to compete against all other league teams across the length of the season.

Since Walter is a very competitive A-hole (and because he was desperate to change the subject away from his ex wife's dog) he would have called out any rule violation he saw (or thought he saw) on any lane that night.

After all, it could determine who enters the next round robin. Am I wrong?

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