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My grandmother is a five-time jeopardy champion, and sharp as a tack at 78 years old. She's distributing her daily thoughts on the olympics to a whole list of her favorite people (having recently embraced email in a big way) and I wanted to share it:
EDITED TO ADD: FRIDAY UPDATE:
-----Original Message-----
From: Joan Baer
Sent: vendredi 20 août 2004 16:34
Subject: Friday Observations
1. What a relief that, although the shot was being put at the ancient site, the powers that be didn't decide to be really authentic and have the competitors disrobe. Boggles the mind.
2. You heard it here: watch for Brazil in the next swimming olympics. We can all do a little meringue in the stands and admire the bronzed Latin fellows.
3. What is the mind set of Tyler Hamilton, a married biker, who dedicated his gold medal "For my dog, who died this year."
4. Golden girl or not, the cute relay swimmer should not be chewing gum on the podium. Spit it out, young lady.
5. Jargon I like: "Splash and dash " for the 50m free style. "Margaritaville" for the hole on the whitewater course where you get a faceful of saltwater. But the best is from the men's volleyball. Every sentence has a colorful phrase. Also, how great that that team consists of 2 who were dumped by former partners--who didn't make it to the games.
6. With the huge population of India, how can there be no athletes at all?
7. Eye opener: Gail Deavers, with the 3 inch blue fingernails, lacing up her sneaks. I want to try nail extensions but the girls in my hair salon told me I would look like a lady of the night.
8. Race walking has to be the clunkiest looking sport.
9. Now I know why I wasn't a winner in the Wellington Ave. badminton games. I had no idea serving could be so strange--or effective. I challange you all , on my front yard. I will even clean off the dog doo, the concrete bird bath pedestal, and the splintery picket fence for this.
10. Add Hamm & Patterson to amazing comeback stories in what the Times calls a group"..using high-pitched voices in need of WD-40."
Enjoy the week-end.
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"Larry Brown is no Phil Jackson. Do you have to have a high voice (Male & female) to be a gymnast? If all those Romanian babies were starving, are the Romanian gymnasts immigrants from another country. Peirsall is a great looking swimmer, but he hasn't have the POP of Popov, who may not be swimming as well as in the past, but looks better than ever. I like the laurel wreaths. The George Steinbrenner/Visa commercial is my favorite. Are duelists all left-handed? Have you noticed how few records are being broken? Have we finally reached to wall? If I were competing in the floor exercise, I wouldn't go for the home town music, which does get the audience into it, but a medley of music from the judges' home countries. During commercials, I can go not only to MSNBC but to the hispanic stations--big on boxing and soccer, and Bravo. Such opportunities."
Also, another descriptive top 10 list from last night's Olympics ... I was cracking up ...
10. Paul Hamm, what a gymnast, but he sounds like he could understudy Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music.
9. That one Russian gymnast, the really graceful anorexic? She has a stare that could cut glass. She was born twenty years too late, she has great communist facial expression.
8. Did you see that they have scaffolding up on the Parthenon? I mean seriously, in the words of Rick Reilly @ Sports Illustrated, did the Athenians have anything more important going on this year? Are they trying to get the Parthenon looking snappy for the podiatrists convention in October? TAKE IT DOWN
7. Peter Vanderkaay, American swimmer from last nights 4x200 freestyle relay he makes Michael Phelps look petite. Michael Phelps is 65. How big is this guy? Also, news flash, Vanderkaay, was born in 1984. AAH!
6. To add to my list of names I would never do to a kid: Guard. Fern. Klete. Walaya. Thade.
5. Interesting statistic from Olympic Village: During the 2002 Winter Games, 32,000 condoms were sold in Salt Lake City in twenty-one days. This was more condoms than were sold in the other 49 weeks of 2002 in Utah AND Nevada, total.
4. Apparently rowing is delayed due to winds on the course? September is supposed to be perfectly serene, but alas, this is August. Big winds. Also, I think lack of records in the pool has something to do with temperatures, remember, the Greeks forgot to build a roof for the pool.
3. We forget, in all the pomp and circumstance, that some of these countries are nightmares at best. That Kirsty swimmer from Zimbabwe swim away from that civil war, darlin! Also, when the Romanians won gymnastics congrats, ladies, but you still have to go back to Romania. Bummer.
2. We decided as a group that we want to party at the 2008 Games, so we should try to qualify. We decided our event would be synchronized archery, which hasnt exactly become a sport yet, but we could petition? Representing Iceland or the Federated States of Micronesia? Or how about Equestrian for the Former Canadian Republic of Nunavut? A little hair dye and we can pass as Eskimos. I doubt theres been a horse in Nunavut since the Neanderthals crossed the Bering Strait.
1. We are also taking bets on when Michael Phelps wetsuit is going to slip that last half-inch, leading to a sweet Janet Jackson moment and women nationwide dazed on the couch, drooling.
EDITED TO ADD: FRIDAY UPDATE:
-----Original Message-----
From: Joan Baer
Sent: vendredi 20 août 2004 16:34
Subject: Friday Observations
1. What a relief that, although the shot was being put at the ancient site, the powers that be didn't decide to be really authentic and have the competitors disrobe. Boggles the mind.
2. You heard it here: watch for Brazil in the next swimming olympics. We can all do a little meringue in the stands and admire the bronzed Latin fellows.
3. What is the mind set of Tyler Hamilton, a married biker, who dedicated his gold medal "For my dog, who died this year."
4. Golden girl or not, the cute relay swimmer should not be chewing gum on the podium. Spit it out, young lady.
5. Jargon I like: "Splash and dash " for the 50m free style. "Margaritaville" for the hole on the whitewater course where you get a faceful of saltwater. But the best is from the men's volleyball. Every sentence has a colorful phrase. Also, how great that that team consists of 2 who were dumped by former partners--who didn't make it to the games.
6. With the huge population of India, how can there be no athletes at all?
7. Eye opener: Gail Deavers, with the 3 inch blue fingernails, lacing up her sneaks. I want to try nail extensions but the girls in my hair salon told me I would look like a lady of the night.
8. Race walking has to be the clunkiest looking sport.
9. Now I know why I wasn't a winner in the Wellington Ave. badminton games. I had no idea serving could be so strange--or effective. I challange you all , on my front yard. I will even clean off the dog doo, the concrete bird bath pedestal, and the splintery picket fence for this.
10. Add Hamm & Patterson to amazing comeback stories in what the Times calls a group"..using high-pitched voices in need of WD-40."
Enjoy the week-end.
______________________________________________
"Larry Brown is no Phil Jackson. Do you have to have a high voice (Male & female) to be a gymnast? If all those Romanian babies were starving, are the Romanian gymnasts immigrants from another country. Peirsall is a great looking swimmer, but he hasn't have the POP of Popov, who may not be swimming as well as in the past, but looks better than ever. I like the laurel wreaths. The George Steinbrenner/Visa commercial is my favorite. Are duelists all left-handed? Have you noticed how few records are being broken? Have we finally reached to wall? If I were competing in the floor exercise, I wouldn't go for the home town music, which does get the audience into it, but a medley of music from the judges' home countries. During commercials, I can go not only to MSNBC but to the hispanic stations--big on boxing and soccer, and Bravo. Such opportunities."
Also, another descriptive top 10 list from last night's Olympics ... I was cracking up ...
10. Paul Hamm, what a gymnast, but he sounds like he could understudy Julie Andrews in the Sound of Music.
9. That one Russian gymnast, the really graceful anorexic? She has a stare that could cut glass. She was born twenty years too late, she has great communist facial expression.
8. Did you see that they have scaffolding up on the Parthenon? I mean seriously, in the words of Rick Reilly @ Sports Illustrated, did the Athenians have anything more important going on this year? Are they trying to get the Parthenon looking snappy for the podiatrists convention in October? TAKE IT DOWN
7. Peter Vanderkaay, American swimmer from last nights 4x200 freestyle relay he makes Michael Phelps look petite. Michael Phelps is 65. How big is this guy? Also, news flash, Vanderkaay, was born in 1984. AAH!
6. To add to my list of names I would never do to a kid: Guard. Fern. Klete. Walaya. Thade.
5. Interesting statistic from Olympic Village: During the 2002 Winter Games, 32,000 condoms were sold in Salt Lake City in twenty-one days. This was more condoms than were sold in the other 49 weeks of 2002 in Utah AND Nevada, total.
4. Apparently rowing is delayed due to winds on the course? September is supposed to be perfectly serene, but alas, this is August. Big winds. Also, I think lack of records in the pool has something to do with temperatures, remember, the Greeks forgot to build a roof for the pool.
3. We forget, in all the pomp and circumstance, that some of these countries are nightmares at best. That Kirsty swimmer from Zimbabwe swim away from that civil war, darlin! Also, when the Romanians won gymnastics congrats, ladies, but you still have to go back to Romania. Bummer.
2. We decided as a group that we want to party at the 2008 Games, so we should try to qualify. We decided our event would be synchronized archery, which hasnt exactly become a sport yet, but we could petition? Representing Iceland or the Federated States of Micronesia? Or how about Equestrian for the Former Canadian Republic of Nunavut? A little hair dye and we can pass as Eskimos. I doubt theres been a horse in Nunavut since the Neanderthals crossed the Bering Strait.
1. We are also taking bets on when Michael Phelps wetsuit is going to slip that last half-inch, leading to a sweet Janet Jackson moment and women nationwide dazed on the couch, drooling.
