lord denning rocks

It looks like curling and law go together, certainly here at the little law school on the prairie. Today, our team "Lord Denning Rocks" (offical name Law Team #2) hit the curling rink on campus. Yes, a curling rink right on campus, welcome to the prairies.

First an explanation of the name for those NITK (not in the know). Lord Denning is a prolific English judge, most notably from his stint on the English Court of Appeal. Not only was he prolific in the number of his judgments, he was a very descriptive writer, capturing the essence of english country life in his judgments. Lord Denning would begin today's post on the curling game something like this:

"On a cold, blustery day as the wind blew across the snow-covered prairie, proud people gathered at their local curling rink to wage a collegial battle. Amid cries of "hurrry" and "haarrrrd", they took to the ice and threw rocks at painted houses..."

The rocks part of our name, obvious enough, Lord Denning, as a Judge, he just rocks; and in curling, the rocks (pictured above) are what you throw at the "house", the painted rings at the other end of rink.

We were a rag tag group, none of us having played very much, and some, never at all. But we put in a respectable 6-5 loss. We even started out scoring two in the first end, and stealing two in the second.