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FunBowlingTees.com now has a new line of T-shirts available at our T-shirt store. If you've visited our site, you're probably familiar with our Gutter Duster T-shirts, designed to be an excuse for bowling gutter balls, and our I'd Rather Be Bowling T-shirts, for those who would rather be bowling even though they stink at it so much they almost hate bowling. If you have ever heard someone say, "Your ball will be right back," to a frustrated bowler, and then perhaps the ball didn't come back, then you will relate to our new Bad Ball Return T-shirts.

Have you ever been bowling, bowled a bad ball, and then someone tells you that your ball will be right back? And suppose the ball return didn't return the ball right away, because the ball got stuck or the ball return wasn't working well. Then you had to call the front desk and ask for a ball return, and it takes forever for them to do it, especially in a big bowling center. Our new Bad Ball Return T-shirts poke fun at that. On the top it says, "Your ball will be right back." Below that, it says, "Okay, any second now..." and then "Okay, any minute now..." and so on. And at the bottom, there is an intercom button, and then it says, "Ball return on lane 150, please." I'll let you see the rest for yourself. If you have told a frustrated bowler, "Your ball will be right back," then you should get a kick out of this one, even if you've never seen their ball not come back after you say it.

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On December 29, 2003, on lane one of the Lebanon Bowling Center in Lebanon, Indiana, Gene Wethington set a new world record for the sport of bowling. But it's not the type of record you might expect.

Ryo Nishimura, a JPBA bowler from Japan, is the first bowler ever to bowl a 900 series outside the United States. Not even an American PBA bowler has done that. The PBA tour's high three-game series is held by Jason Hurd, who bowled an 889 series in the 1999 Tournament of Champions in Overland Park, Kansas.

And if you think that 900 series is something, you won't believe this! Robert Mushtare, a 17-year-old from Carthage, New York, is not only the youngest bowler to have bowled a 900 series (that's three perfect 300 games, or 36 consecutive strikes) approved by the United States Bowling Congress, but he is the first bowler (period) ever to bowl two 900 series approved by the USBC. Local cable news channel News 10 Now even did a story on this event.

You think that's incredible? Well check this out! Brandie Reamy from Livonia, Michigan, is the youngest female bowler to bowl a perfect 300 game approved by the USBC. How old is she, you ask? She's not even in her 20's. She's not 17, not 16, not 15, not even 13, but 12 years old. That may not sound like much when you consider that the previous holder of this record, Nicole Long, was only a month older. But that record was set 11 years before Brandie Reamy set her new record. So anyone that young bowling a perfect game is outstanding.

Most of those are only within the United States, but Wethington's world record is nothing like that at all. In fact, it's probably far beyond what you would expect or even believe. Are you ready for this one? Wethington's record is for--oh yeah, I forgot to say that it has nothing to do with scoring. Okay, now that I've pointed that out, let's move right along. Wethington's record is for--the longest amount of time of continuous bowling. (Fooled you there for a second, didn't I?) So how long was it? It wasn't 12 hours. It was greater than that. It wasn't even 24 hours, and it wasn't even 48 hours. it was 54 hours and 4 minutes of non-stop bowling.

Here's another one from FreshTribe.com. Have you ever tried a new challenge when bowling, such as bowling with your left hand (assuming of course you're right-handed, otherwise bowling with your right hand) or even bowling backwards? This guy tried bowling backwards, and you wouldn't believe how he started doing that and how well he does it.

This isn't another article about Superman at the bowling alley, but about a video I found of a professional bowler doing his split-second impression of Superman, or an impression of Superman trying to fly with a ball that he doesn't realize contains traces of kryptonite, however you want to look at it. The pro bowler steps up to the line and makes his approach, and on his release--well, let's just say there was no release.