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  • Sometimes, I get it in my head that love is like one of those skee-ball games you see at arcades.

    Skee-Ball Amy Butcher 2011

  • It should be said: it is easy, as a human, to really like skee-ball.

    Skee-Ball Amy Butcher 2011

  • Like, a person's seriously gonna tear down the entire deck of skee-ball machines with one face-first slide.

    The Onion: Joe Biden Receives Lifetime Ban from Dave & Buster's | Indecision Forever | Political Humor, 2010 Election, and Satire Blog | Comedy Central 2010

  • The happy hour is sponsored by United Social Sports (the guys behind those new skee-ball leagues at the Iron Horse Tap Room and, yes, H Street Country Club, among others) and So What's the Deal, which is another of those ubiquitous deal sites offering 50 percent off your sandwiches or Shawarma Spot or 60 percent off the tab at Velocity Five.

    Nightlife Agenda 2010

  • Play skee-ball at Iron Horse Tap Room or watch the ball drop on flatscreens at Nellie's Sports Bar.

    New Year's Eve FAQ: Free parties, drink specials and dancing Fritz Hahn 2010

  • A group of women was playing skee-ball, and strings of tickets issued from the coin box at the end of the game.

    A Day at the Fair 2010

  • The last hole, where players have to hit the ball through a loop and up ramp to a skee-ball board to try to deduct strokes from their score, represents the uncertainties immigrants faced.

    The Golden Door Mini-Golf Course 2010

  • The group dispersed back to their games, with the women who had been playing skee-ball rushing into a photo booth to have their picture taken.

    A Day at the Fair 2010

  • In honor of the dead guy, we evolved beyond terrible pizza and skee-ball and celebrated instead with a 3-D Movie [Bolt] and bowling ♥ Hayden was miserable for the entire first game.

    Death Day Celebration « Bodhicitta 2008

  • Peter HanleyI think a better analogy would be the tickets you get when you play skee-ball or the ball-bearings you get from pachinko

    The Point of No Return 2008

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