Comments on: You play table tennis? I play ping pong

By: Selena

Selena — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:18:13 +0000

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By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:41:18 +0000

Hi there, My name is Joseph… Aida knows me as JoeD. I need some help here: I just returned from Singapore this month. Aida had just sent me her new contact info, however i stored it in a laptop that has gone belly up and i cannot reach her. Any chance of you contacting her and having her call Joe in Seattle? She has the number.

Regards,

JoeD

By: John's wife

John's wife — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:51:47 +0000

If ping pong is exclusively a trademark for Park Brothers someone needs to notifying dictionaries, encyclopedias, journalist, TV news reporters and all those who market ping pong cards, t-shirts etc. In addition, history writers maybe need to be notified to change ping pong diplomacy to possibly ping pang diplomacy. When a US team received an invitation from the Chinese ping pang qiu team to visit the People’s Republic of China, Time magazine I read coined the phrase “The ping heard round the world.” When US players stepped into China followed by Kissinger and Nixon some writers referred to this as ping pong diplomacy. Some dictionaries define ping pong: shift, bounce, table tennis or an exchange. Ping Pang Qiu is sometimes translated to table tennis, ping pong, ping pong ball. Some claim ping pong came from the Chinese ping pang then others claim the Chinese ping pang came from the English ping pong phrase coined because of the sounds made by the ball.
Patrick am I ping ponging or blogging?

By: Bob Benford

Bob Benford — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:17:24 +0000

The name “ping pong” is owned by Parker Brothers the ccompany famous for “Monopoly.” So unless you want to pay a royalty most of us call the game Table Tennis. Our club has an average age of 70, but we all learned at a much younger age, often at the Y or in my case at the Salvation Army gym and also played in College.

By: John's wife

John's wife — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:36:49 +0000

Pensacola Bayview Table Tennis Tournament April 29, 2008 winners were printed in the Pensacola News Journal Sports Scoreboard section in between the Golf PGA Tour Tiger Woods… and the NHL conference standings. Table Tennis Sanctioned Division A Second Place Winner Grant and Novice Adult Winner First Place John. Grant was happy he got his 15 minutes of fame, all he ever wanted between your posting and the PNJ. John was happy to see Grant and his name in print in the sports section and not the obituary section.

You may find a table tennis club in your area on the USATT website. USATT is the national organizing body for table tennis in the US. USATT is affiliated with the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) the world governing body for table tennis and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC). Pensacola Table Tennis Club (PTTC) is a sanctioned USATT club in our area.

L.A. PTTC president enjoyed reading what you wrote and laughed aloud. PTTC club offers fun play “ping pong” for novices every Tuesday and advanced athletic play “table tennis” every Thursday, on Thursday USATT approved paddles are required. PTTC is having a fundraiser tournament for the American Cancer Society April 12 in Gulf Breeze. Hopefully Aida and others from the YMCA will enter the tournament. There is a novice ping-pong division so jump on a plane and come join in on the fun and festivities. Since John came in first place in the March tournament and second in the January tournament in the Novice Adult Division, he is nervous he may be bounced out of the “ping-pong” division and have to compete with the “table tennis” rated players in future tournaments.

By: patfan

patfan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:40:24 +0000

Mr. Newell!! You are much too modest. You are a formidable opponent who, on more occasions I care to admit, had me stomping and pouting like a little girl! Just wait until next time… You and that $6 Wal-Mart paddle of yours are goin’ down!!
(insert sinister laugh here)