I've figured it out!
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I've figured it out!
This winter Olympics thingy they're making such a big fuss about on television.
It has something to do with sliding around a lot, right?
It's so much more satisfying to watch a sport when you understand it.
Best wishes,
Jerry
It has something to do with sliding around a lot, right?
It's so much more satisfying to watch a sport when you understand it.
Best wishes,
Jerry
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Oh. I thought it was about brightly colored Spandex. My mistake.Jerry Freeman wrote:This winter Olympics thingy they're making such a big fuss about on television. It has something to do with sliding around a lot, right?
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It's about selling sh*t, like every other form of television.
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s1m0n wrote:It's about selling sh*t, like every other form of television.
We have a winner. I haven't watched any television so who are the current "official sponsors of the 2006 Winter Olympics" in the US?
Coke? Pepsi? Budweiser? Ford? Chevy? Everyone, jumping on the bandwagon?
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Not the educational channel.... they sell great stuff like "Best of British Humour" tea cozies and "Anne of Green Gables" dolls and videos of the show that's on right now (in case you don't have a VCR to record it yourself).Mitch wrote:I'll buy thats1m0n wrote:It's about selling ----, like every other form of television.
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Ah, but curling (another of those innovative Scottish games, like golf and haggis hurling) is about people moving rocks from one point to another on ice. Now that is a sport worthy of the Olympic Games.Charlene wrote:It's about people moving from one point to another on either snow or ice, either inside things or with funny things strapped to their feet.
To be honest, since I saw the movie Men With Brooms a few years back, I've started paying more attention to curling. There's some real strategy to the game, which is a nice contrast to the usual "get there first" style of most Olympic events.
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I like the skeleton and the luge...
there's something about sliding down a pipe at 80mph on nothong but a bit of metal...
Living in Utah and Canada, I've been into a lot of winter sports, and I can understand one's motivation for getting into them, and I have no doubt that lugers and skeleton-ers (?) are seriously dedicated to their sports, but man you gotta be drunk or crazy to start those!
there's something about sliding down a pipe at 80mph on nothong but a bit of metal...
Living in Utah and Canada, I've been into a lot of winter sports, and I can understand one's motivation for getting into them, and I have no doubt that lugers and skeleton-ers (?) are seriously dedicated to their sports, but man you gotta be drunk or crazy to start those!
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Tyler Morris wrote:I like the skeleton and the luge...
there's something about sliding down a pipe at 80mph on nothong but a bit of metal...
Living in Utah and Canada, I've been into a lot of winter sports, and I can understand one's motivation for getting into them, and I have no doubt that lugers and skeleton-ers (?) are seriously dedicated to their sports, but man you gotta be drunk or crazy to start those!
Even more the Aerials. There is an added incentive to land with the aerials. If you don't land...your dead...at this point who cares about the medal..if you survive..thats an accomplishment in its self
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I would have thought that if you didn't land you'd go into orbit...Celtic983 wrote:Tyler Morris wrote:I like the skeleton and the luge...
there's something about sliding down a pipe at 80mph on nothong but a bit of metal...
Living in Utah and Canada, I've been into a lot of winter sports, and I can understand one's motivation for getting into them, and I have no doubt that lugers and skeleton-ers (?) are seriously dedicated to their sports, but man you gotta be drunk or crazy to start those!
Even more the Aerials. There is an added incentive to land with the aerials. If you don't land...your dead...
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