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I think Slip McScruff would have been into curling if he didn't get into hockey. He accidentally trained really hard for it karate kid style as a child because he would always make a mess on the kitchen floor and then have to scrub it clean before his mom got home. The situation was so severe that he actually had the knock on effect of having to replace the broom since he was sweeping so hard.

Through another crazy coincidence, he tended to make a mess by spilling jars of home pickled vegetables which had stones in the top to keep things weighted down. So he would slide the stones into the trash across the floor he just swept. He made a game out of it so he got very accurate in his curling.

As an incredibly skilled amateur curler, you might wonder why he never went pro. Most likely because he was the only kid in town that could curl, so there wasn't any organized league around it. Instead, he used his half-baked skills on skates to become a professional hockey player.