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Olympic Disappointment

With posters like this:

I think I can hardly be blamed for getting my hopes up. Naturally (inevitably) I was disappointed when, once again, the tentacled shot put failed to make it as even a mere exhibition sport.
I’d show him where to put it, that’s for sure!

Boris Johnson’s Ping Pong Speech

Again I say: oh, Boris. Don’t ever change.
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London gives quite possibly the greatest Olympic speech ever made; quite certainly the most entertaining. But why didn’t he bring up Poodle Clipping? That was an Olympic sport!

“Virtually every single one of our international sports were either invented or codified [...]

Disaster!

Perhaps I may be ever so slightly melodramatic, but I blame California (doesn’t everyone blame California, no matter what we’re talking about? It’s your choice of California, Tories, or Global Warming where I come from). After all, they started it. How is anyone else supposed to make the news when they’re all, like, “Earthquake! Earthquake!”
I [...]

How to make tennis interesting

Like this!

Good Ideas vs Bad Ideas

Good Idea: rollerblading down to the office to pay your dues to the Federation of BC Writers for which you are the new Lower Mainland rep. Gets your dues paid and your workout done at the same time, plus bonus tanning time you don’t have to feel guilty about because you were, hello? productive.
Bad Idea: [...]

Samuel L. Jackson’s past as a Junior Hockey coach

Not many non-Canadians know, but Junior Hockey is the bloodiest. Oh, there may be less blood on the ice, but there is far more in the stands and in the parking lot. My parents, for instance, who, having two figure skating daughters, had no particular interest in junior excuse me Junior Hockey, still went out [...]

What’s Your Roller Derby Name?

It’s kind of funny: actually those are my middle names.
Along with Danger.

My brand-new Roller Derby Name is Action DominateHer.
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quiz: which great Thoroughbred racehorse are you?

Well, I AM the greatest. But I don’t think they had Ruffian on this, so what the hell kind of a quiz is that? Sexism!

What Thoroughbred Legend are You?
Take the Quiz and be immortalized.
Stolen from kstafford @ TheAspiringHorseplayer. I would, for the record, so TOTALLY have been Ruffian.

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Binocular Soccer

Most sports, I find, don’t particularly interest me. Even quiddich. Which I note is not in the spellchecker…surely it should be? But then, apparently, neither is “spellchecker.”
Sports. I was talking about sports. The ways to make a sport interesting to me are either put horses in it, play it on ice, or inject a note [...]

what are they putting in the water over there?

Seriously, this is ridiculous.

That’s a catfish the way a sabertoothed tiger is a cat. You’re looking at a record-breaking 66 pounds of fish sticks (a gazillionty-seven kilograms, howthefuckshouldiknoweh) landed by Bev Street, a deceptively mild-mannered housewife with, obviously, a lethal antipathy to free-range freshwater fish.
In unrelated news, I have recently deleted our dear friend StevenL [...]