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I thought this would be about the ban a few years ago: Brooms with certain bristles were banned, as it made it "too easy". From the same paper a few years back

• stan_rogers 9y ago
  Hey, some of us are still fuming about brushes. The couple of days after a bonspiel used to hurt.
  • irremediable 9y ago
    What did people use before brushes? (I love that the user complaining about curling minutiae has the username "stan_rogers", by the way. Possibly the most Canadian thing ever.)
    • stan_rogers 9y ago
      Proper brooms, as opposed to push brooms. You might occasionally see a skip using one just to call shots these days. It took a lot of effort to sweep effectively with a corn broom. (I can sing all of his stuff as a party piece, but I had the name a long time before he became famous, and Stan is a really common name in my family going back many generations. Probably related if you go all Mormon on the genealogy, but that's more effort than fun.)