My serve used to be incredible, but in a long rally I’m screwed.

You haven’t seen my serve yet, my friend. There won’t BE any long rallies.

I’ve never actually played ping pong, but I’m pretty dominate at air hockey.

I’ll beat you at both.

OK, so I just commented but apparently it didn’t take. So.. umm.. either Arjewtino is mad that I wiped the floor with the competition last night, or my internets are mad at me.

The gist, I totally dominated on the ping pong court (except for my 2 losses to Arjewtino *lowers gaze to honor the exalted*). When I went to the bar to get water, the bartender clearly saw me breathing a mite heavy and said “getting a little intense on the ping pong table?” Oh yes, Ms. Bartendress. Intense indeed.

So, the gauntlet is being thrown: Full on, bracketed, winner takes all ping pong tourney this summer. A true battle royale. Maybe on the ellipse. With media coverage.

The game is SO on.

THIS is interesting. Ping pong bracketology. Love it.

how in the hell did I only get to play two games last night? And neither was against Arjewtino. Apparently, I’m ADD at any Thursday evening event where there are people and drinking involved.

I KNOW, I just realized I didn’t play you. Just as well, you would have cried.

When the SO and I first started dating, long ago in a galaxy far, far away… We would go down to this local dive bar and play air hockey. I ‘mopped the floor’ (to use the favored expression) with him just about every game.
Unfortunately, I had a monsterous bruise on my right thigh from hitting the table every time I made a slap shot. It’s a good thing we didn’t start dating during shorts season. People might have wondered.

Is THAT the excuse you came up with to explain the bruising? Poor you.

Ping pong was the only game I rocked in gym glass. Don’t even get me started on air hockey — it makes me a fierce competitor.

You guys played ping pong in gym class? No rope climbing, mile runs, or medicine ball sit-ups? Lucky.

So what hand were you playing with given that the one is hang-nail damaged?

The pain was gone from my finger yesterday so, bandaged and all, I was able to play many rousing games against lesser players.

It’s only fun if people play it slowly. Playing fast to win just takes all the enjoyment out of it.
Now that I’m older, I can see how winning isn’t everything.
Ping pong is a good example of that.
Yo soy tu papa!

“Winning isn’t everything”? I thought I knew you, Twoste.

Are you really going to expect me to read this without any mention of me beating you 10 straight games in sub-arctic conditions with 103 degree fever. This makes me question the integrity of this blog….if you are the Forrest Gump of ping pong but have never been able to beat me, what does that make me?

Damn, I was hoping today would be one of those days you don’t read my blog. Yes, Blue kicked my ass in ping pong when we visited Patagonia. I think I was temporarily distracted by all the dogs following us around and actually walking INTO bars and restaurants.

Blue - that makes you Chinese.

I suck at ping pong. But I am a force of nature if you turn that ping pong table into a beer pong table. Or as some people call it, “Beirut,” which I always thought was a little insensitive. (Says I, after assuming that Blue must be Chinese because of the mad el ping de pong skills!)

Now THIS comment made me laugh. Sorry to say, Blue’s as Jewish as me, if not more.

I used to be really good at air hockey (really!), but now I’m a wuss and am worried that the puck is going to hit my fingers…I have no delusions about being good at ping pong.

We STILL haven’t played air hockey, have we? You’ll have to find a place this weekend somewhere in MO for me to assert my dominance.

seriously, i will kick your ass in ping pong. seriously.

i hold the paddle right where it meets the handle and wedge it between my thumb and my first two fingers. (this is how my mother learned, using pans.) it will blow your mind.

we’ll wait til your little finger boo-boo heals, just so you have a prayer. and then… it’s on.

My boo-boo is well on its way to healing and your words are well on their way to being eaten.

Princess - I was going to say that… air hockey is flippin’ DANGEROUS! Smashed fingers, flying pucks, overzealous players flinging the little things you hit the little pucky thing with…

Air hockey is like teatherball: the fun to injury ratio is just not high enough to bother with.

Tetherball brings back bad memories of my tall friends beating me because I wasn’t high enough to stop the ball from spinning.

The last time I lost at air hockey, I was in Kindergarten. I have played many, many times since, but never against anyone serious about it. I have a standing challenge against the world.

As for ping-pong, I’m pretty decent. When my girlfriend and I started dating, there was a ping-pong table downstairs in my building. It turned out that she’d had a ping pong table in her house all her life, and was amazing at ping pong. I’d had a table for a few years, but my skills had lapsed a bit. She kicked my ass every single time.

So we kept playing, and after a few weeks, we were mostly even. Now I beat her almost every time, and therefore assert my loving dominance.

My girlfriend, as you might have read, thinks she can beat me at air hockey. Women are funny.

In the history of your life, you have never beaten me at el pingo pongo or whatever you people call it.

And you never will.

You’re half-right.

I used to have a ping pong table and would play endlessly. I loved that friggin game. I haven’t played it in years … I think from now on I’m calling it el ping de pong … sounds so exotic.

It does add a little class to the whole thing.

No lo creo. You really call it el ping de pong?

I would rock your world backward and forward in el ping de pong. Even in pong de ping you would be spanked…cause I’m amazing like that. I stand 100% on wins when I lived in Argentina (of course that was maybe 100 games tops).

I think your cocksure el ponguesa de ping stance is akin to another person’s outrageous claims about a 934560-2 lifetime shuffleboard record/957323412 Star Wars viewings. Far fetched, utterly unprovable and unlikely.

I hereby on this board challenge you to back it up any night next week at a ping pong table of your choosing. We also have unfinished duckpin issues…

living in asia is a really good way to have any ping of pong confidence shattered. i came here talking all kinds of smack about how i was the best at the abaccus, pingpong, and that my driving skills were the worst ever. my was i mistaken.

Yet again I feel my foreigness. I have played el ping de pong many times (and sucked throughly) , but I’ve never played air hockey. Despite living here for 12 years, I find it a strange, strange game. I know, I’m weird.

My Mum was an Australian ping-pong champion when she was 19. I have never beaten her (but I do not claim to be good). In fact, I’ve never seen anyone beat her. Then again, I’ve never seen her play anyone from China.

Did you know there is a moving coming out about ping pong? I can’t remember the name for the life of me, but I read it in a magazine and have been trying to Google it ever since. It looks to be along the lines of Dodgeball, Blades of Glory, etc…

I used to date a guy who played ‘Table Tennis’ very seriously. He had a subscription to Paddle Palace - no sh*&. That’s when I knew it was not meant to be.

And by ‘moving’, I mean ‘movie’.

Found it, looks like I read an incorrect review, this looks to be too serious for me. I’m done flooding your site with comments now!

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/movies/06ping.html?ex=1333512000&en=35d3b00d5fac0b2c&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink