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Offline Rusty Edge

OLYMPICS
« on: August 06, 2016, 03:25:44 AM »
We're watching the opening ceremonies. My wife is grossed out by the bugs.

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2016, 12:43:23 AM »
What are you looking forward to seeing in the Summer games?


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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2016, 12:53:13 AM »
This seems to be turning out to be a national showcase like the winter Olympics were for Putin...

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2016, 01:04:29 AM »
Well, the host nations generally strive for that, hoping that they will make up for the infrastructure costs in tourism.

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2016, 01:26:28 AM »
I believe you misunderstood my wisecrack ;) SHOWCASE working out like it did for PUTIN.  -You know, an expensive disaster...

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2016, 03:14:09 AM »
Oh. While I believe they would have benefited from a postponement, It's not obvious to me that they're dysfunctional. That said, a lot of empty seats when the Brazilian gymnasts were competing.

We're watching swimming. I always marvel at the way the water "boils" behind them, as if they had mini-motors, or were being chased by pirrhanas or something. Seeing as how it's Brazil, I guess that could be arranged.

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2016, 03:15:34 AM »
;lol  Wit.

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2016, 03:29:45 AM »
I think the home team missed a training opportunity.

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2016, 03:32:41 AM »
;lol

Some of my work in the renaissance was a strange sort of stand up comedy; you have potential as at least a gag writer...

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2016, 04:29:02 AM »
Hah- you know I actually took an online course on joke writing about 1999. It may have been free, but it was limited to the first 25 people or something like that. The guy had been a staff writer for the tonight show at one point. Sadly, he had cancer and I think he wanted to pass on his wisdom rather than have it be lost forever. Obviously that was many computers ago, and I'm pretty sure I don't have any of the e-mails any more.

But I hope that I retained and internalized some of his advice.  I don't know if I have the timing for stand-up, or the desire.

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2016, 04:35:36 AM »
We find it remarkable that we haven't seen a false start so far.

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2016, 03:23:17 PM »
I look forward to observing some of the sexy ladies. I also enjoy not watching the publicity stunts from the special snowflakes athletes of the Olympics with the wealthy parents to pay for the significant financial expenses of the activities. The bourgeois tendencies of the people in the Olympics perpetuate a variety of warning sirens in my head.
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Offline Rusty Edge

Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2016, 09:22:38 PM »
Well, I tend to feel sorry for many of them. Like astronauts, they prepare all of their lives for something increasingly competitive, and then after  they succeed, there is sort of realization that their life has peaked, and they are not only in decline, but have no all-consuming goal and purpose in life, and that their personal achievement has little application afterwards.

That can easily put a person in depression.

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2016, 09:39:03 PM »
Yes indeedy-do - what the astronauts and Olympians alike need, of course, is to find new purposes...  They are people of extraordinary ability, capable of focus and long hard work towards a distant goal - they have potential, as such.

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Re: OLYMPICS
« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2016, 04:43:37 AM »
So the American women won by 1.8 something seconds in the 4X 200 meter freestyle rely.
Ladecky was behind by .82 seconds when her turn came to run the anchor leg. She's rather dominant in the water. Pirrhanas on her toes.

 

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