Feb 28 2008You Deserve It: Home Installed Bowling Lanes
Are you a bowling fanatic? Does seeing The Big Lebowski give you a boner? If so then you're not invited over to watch it this weekend. Just kidding, you're more than welcome. But if you just plain love bowling and hate having to leave the house to hit the lanes, then how about getting your own installed? United Bowling will install two regulation lanes (complete with pin setter-upper, ball return and computer scoring) in your home for a paltry $88,000. Unfortunately I called and that cost does not include building the necessary 88' x 12' x 10' room. So, yeah. Thought I was going to pull a fast one on them. Nope. I still managed to sneak in the "Do you carry 12lb balls?" joke though. Freaking classic. I'm throwing rocks tonight. Mark it, Dude.
Another picture of the lanes, and a DIY video of some guy that made a 10ft lane in his garage, after the jump. If you watch the video make sure to notice the pin hit the camera at 0:37.
Reader Comments
1. matt - February 28, 2008 4:17 PM
Now that owns!
88 Extra Large seems like more than it should cost though
2. Andrew - February 28, 2008 4:25 PM
I drink your milkshake!
3. nibstar5 - February 28, 2008 5:25 PM
"I drink your milkshake!"
--nice
4. PB&J - February 28, 2008 6:38 PM
I'm working on my short game.
5. kat - February 28, 2008 6:56 PM
this would have been Al Bundys dream
6. bonzo420 - February 28, 2008 6:59 PM
we'll cut off your johnson lebowski-
yea and then we'll stomp on it and squish it!
WE WANT THE MONEY LEBOWSKI
WE BELIEVE IN NOTHING!
WE WILL CUT OFF YOUR JOHNSON!
~420~
7. blp - February 28, 2008 7:00 PM
Al Bundy's dream would include a toilet in the same room as the lanes, the latest issue of Big Uns in reach, a nudey bar next door and Marcy, Peg and the kids instead of pins.
8. bonzo420 - February 28, 2008 7:01 PM
we'll cut off your johnson lebowski-
yea and then we'll stomp on it and squish it!
WE WANT THE MONEY LEBOWSKI
WE BELIEVE IN NOTHING!
WE WILL CUT OFF YOUR JOHNSON!
~420~
9. dhurowitz - February 28, 2008 7:06 PM
Love to bowl, will try to build one into our next office location!
10. mint - February 28, 2008 7:35 PM
wow 10 whole feet? amazing. Seriously? do you suck so bad that you really need the gutters on a 10 foot lane? Apparently the DIY guy is walleyed, pigeon toed and a wrist twister.
11. haqikah - February 28, 2008 10:16 PM
Sweet!
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12. guate6 - February 28, 2008 10:28 PM
#10: Jealous? It's a fully working setup they did themselves and you say it sucks? Hah. I say it's neat. Both of them are neat...88 Stacks though? that's a hefty price, but for us simple folk who can't afford that, it's nice to watch others blow their money on shit like that.
13. Matt - February 29, 2008 11:58 AM
The Dude: Walter, what is the point? Look, we all know who is at fault here, what the fuck are you talking about?
Walter Sobchak: Huh? No, what the fuck are you... I'm not... We're talking about unchecked aggression here, dude.
Donny: What the fuck is he talking about?
The Dude: My rug.
Walter Sobchak: Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!
The Dude: Walter, the chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill, so what the fuck are you talking about?
Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
The Dude: Walter, this isn't a guy who built the fucking railroads here. This is a guy...
Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about?
The Dude: Walter, he peed on my rug!
Donny: He peed on the Dude's rug.
Walter Sobchak: Donny you're out of your element! Dude, the Chinaman is not the issue here!