Don’t know much about Wally Ball, but Stickball with “Spaldeens” was the game of choice where I grew up. In the 70s, handball on elaborately graffitied walls was also quite popular. 
Congrats to @RightCoaster, who Won the Internet in addition to his son winning the Pickle Ball Championship.
@curiositycat333 We used to play in a Wallyball league. We knew some people who had won some sort of national Wallyball championships.
Do kids still play broomball in places where there are ice rinks? There were enough injuries back when I played that maybe that has been lawyered out of existence.
When I read your post @RightCoaster, I was at first thinking this was a “ball” in the Cinderella sense of the word, with a pickle theme. There, striding triumphantly across the stage is RCson, King of the Pickle Ball with the beautiful Queen on his arm…
I guess I had too much of @klinska’s bourbon.
All hail the Pickle King!
@rightcoaster Kudos on your DS’s racquet sport achievement! 
goes off to google “pickleball”… I must live under a rock.
@mamaedefamilia – I thought it was a joke so I finally googled also! I have never heard of it, so I must be living under a rock also! Having said that, I was taken aback when friends from Boston had never heard of paddle, so perhaps it is regional.
Just drove by the local YMCA and the sign read “Pickleball Tournament” :))
@RightCoaster documentary…
Pickleball Dreams
Came out of under the rock 
google-imaged it and I remember having seen it before.
I also played Wallyball during grad school. @curiositycat333 @Ynotgo
Congratulations on the championship @RightCoaster ! <:-P <:-P
I was under the rock with you @mamaedefamilia! Something for the resume @RightCoaster.
As far as roommates, S will have to go with the roommate match. I think he will be the only one from his HS at the college he ends up at. Or maybe one of his female classmates may be there, but not as a roommate!!
Got home at 8pm tonight after a very long day of fencing. D came in 3rd in the state for Epee! Next week is team championships!
That is great news about BU, @botcom!! Thanks for sharing that info - very happy to hear that they changed their policy. Though I won’t mention it to my friend who had to take out loans!
Congrats to your son, @rightcoaster, will there be a pickleball trophy? An awards ceremony? Perhaps a theme for his graduation party?
@MotherOfDragons my kids were obsessed with Charlie and that damn candy mountain. As well as the guy who wanted to eat “awllll” of the waffles" (Julian Smith). Lol
Congratulations on the pickleball win, @rightcoaster. I hope you relish the experience, after all, it is a big dill.
(And now I’m worried the mods will kick me off CC for that.)
@JenJenJenJen - I was going to make a comment about pickles and relish and wieners, which, in turn, might have led into a wisecrack about Anthony Weiner and sexting, but that would really get me kicked off CC.
In the meantime, I learned a great new word yesterday: witzelsucht - it’s a neurological condition that causes the sufferer to compulsively make inappropriate jokes or puns - all the time.
@LoveTheBard I just meant ironic in the sense that it happened on a sucky college visit! I imagine dislocating your shoulder is extremely painful. I like the full scholarship idea, that’s perfect!
I have used that trick of alternating Tylenol/Advil in the past, I’m glad you reminded me. I haven’t had surgery and no specific injury i can pinpoint. They don’t have a root cause, it’s just “frozen shoulder.” I can’t reach behind me at all - that’s the worst part of it and of course the constant pain. Plus the pain has moved throughout my entire arm (like tennis elbow) and tendinitis in the wrist too.
I plan to go on an anti-inflammatory diet next week, which I bet will help a lot. I went gluten free a couple of years ago for thyroid issues and skin issues and both issues went away very quickly. They came back a week or so after I started eating wheat again, so I know it can work! Of course they say I can get a cortisone shot for the pain, but I’m uncomfortable with that option, it just masks the pain, weakens tissue and doesn’t actually heal anything. I’d prefer to try to continue with the PT, and maybe adjust my diet and work it back to health naturally.
Ooooh—that can be quite bad, @Fishnlines29, speaking as someone who started to have limited motion in my shoulder (though it never got as bad as what you describe). If it feels like you have pain in a specific spot but then when you try you can’t pinpoint where that specific spot might be, that’s one diagnostic of a SLAP tear. I had surgery to repair mine a couple years ago, but it really was simply forestalling the inevitable (in the hope that the technology gets better in the meantime) of a full shoulder replacement, given the way everything’s deteriorated/ing in there.
If things are just frayed a bit or locking together or whatever and it’s not a proper tear (as mine was, or at least as mine became after I’d abused it enough), though, physical therapy is your best option, so there’s hope.
(Also, thanks for fixing the acceptances thread—I’d been watching with dismay as it got messier and messier, but never had the patience to sit down and make it right again.)
@rightcoaster you made my day! Ha! But I too had to google pickeball.
Since last posting, one Big MAC possibility at Miami, good size merit at UConn and a couple of “sliders” at a couple of schools. So things are looking up.
Lol, you’re all dilling me!
@linsweet – bahahaha… I love the use of sliders!