Gib,
Your question was so interesting I had to go out to Cinnabar Hills and hit some golf balls and drink some cabernet to mull it over. Changing your picture on each post just requires going into the “Profile” section of GCA and editing your personal details. The only problem is that it changes ALL of your posts, so that Royal Kabul 1982 picture is now gone forever……..
……Oh, you asked two questions, didn’t you……
While I find it difficult to visualize Nicole Kidman going to the trouble of getting herself naked in front of me without wanting to have sex with me too, and I can’t imagine Rosanne Barr even partially naked, which in my book is a pretty much a requisite for sex, I’ll take the latter. Just as I am on the record that there is no such thing as a bad golf course (a statement which nobody effectively refuted) I’d prefer to grin and bear my grapple inflagrante with Ms. Barr than suffer an up close but not by a longshot personal enough moment with Ms. Ex-Cruise.
BTW, Huckster, I was not using RDP as an example of a “s h i t t y “ course but just as a workingman’s one. After all, I haven’t played it, so how would I know anyway? In terms of the question of playing RDP vs. walking Dornoch, I’ll still take RDP. As a matter of fact I have played very few non-competitive rounds at Dornoch over the past 10 years and when I am there actually prefer to play friendly or solitary games on it’s 2nd course, the Struie, which is the RDP of the Highlands. Yes, I’m sometimes a few tacos short of a combination plate……
Now I’ve got a question. How did Tom Paul become a “DOYEN” during my absence on holiday! How can I even dare to respond to his queries, particularly since they have become much more eloquent since he acquired his new title?
Tom, you are very right that the only part of my ramblings which are really of interest to the topics we pursue relate to how archies and others manage to create shots and holes and courses which use or create the landscapes which allow for interesting and pleasing matrices within the rules and realities of the game of golf. As the boy said to the man who asked him why he was digging frantically into the big pile of manure, “There must be a pony in there, somewhere!”
We’ll find that pony someday, but until then I’ll retract all the heretical thoughts I have posted on this topic and heartily agree with Gib that CB McDonald is as much of an artist as my 4-year old (she’s damned good, by the way…).
So, Gib. How does one edit one’s past posts……?
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