When you think about it, he’s right.
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The Winter Olympics At A Glance #1LinerWeds
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Simplified, boiled down to the truth. So inspiring though 🙂
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As James Geary would say, “the world in a phrase.”
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Great quote and the pizza commercials are funny. I watched some of the Olympics and I think the athletes are amazing. Curling is interesting if you get into how it works and you’re rooting for a particular team, however, I become bored if I have to watch it for a long period of time.
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Curling was big in the Chicago area, I remember. I suppose it’s like watching bowling or billiards on TV. Unless you’re really into it, it lulls you to sleep.
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John,
Excellent and point-on-quote. I wonder if these athletes have the same trouble as the rest of us when trying to walk on a slippery surface, though. 🙂 lol
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I think Tara Lipinski’s career ended when she slipped on the ice (not in the rink, but outside somewhere) and fell on her hip. One of the funniest commercials I’ve seen featured all these retired athletes sitting around at a “retirement home”; all were younger than I, and I think Tara was in her early twenties.
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Love that quote about the winter olympics. As a Brit, these olympics kind of pass me by; they are never our finest hour. This year’s sum total of medals was one gold and four bronzes. Hey, at least we finished above Liechtenstein (population 38,000)!
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I’m really not that into them, either. I always find it amusing when one of the announcers says “We’re fourth in medals!” when in fact all he did was sit in the booth and watch.
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I can honestly say I didn’t watch any of the Olympics except for a few bits of curling while we were at a restaurant eating since that is the way I was facing. I just wasn’t interested for some reason.
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I think we’re long past the age where any of it matters. Or maybe at the age where we realize that it doesn’t.
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So true, John, and I’m totally amazed by the athletes on skiis and snowboards that jump high into the air, flip around a few times and land on the snow. It’s such a dangerous passion to have.
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I have these horrific visions of one of them landing on their head and being paralyzed for life, if they make it. They think taking that risk is worth it…
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These are the thrill seekers, John. I think that drive overtakes any desire for personal safety.
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“Hold my beer and watch this!”
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LOL! So maybe drunk dumbarses instead of thrill seekers?
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I’ve never been able to stay upright on the ice. Bobsledding or luge looks kind of fun, but I don’t like being cold.
I remember Showbiz Pizza. It was a novelty, but not a place I’d go for pizza. We have a Chucky Cheese Pizza near our house–similar concept and they’ve been around many years. I used to go there a lot for birthday parties that my daughters got invited to or their soccer team parties. Bad pizza, but the kids like the place.
Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out
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All of those restaurants/video game arcades are slowly dying out. The food wasn’t that good, and you can find most of the games on Google Play or the Apple App Store now. Chuck E. Cheese has retired all of its Animatronics now; I guess they’re trying to change their image to stay alive.
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At least they keep us busy.
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I suppose…
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I don’t understand why Curling is even a sport.
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They take it really seriously in Canada because of its Scottish roots, and I remember it was big in the Chiago area because there’s a lot of ice during the winter, but it seems like shuffleboard on ice. One has to wonder why they don’t put petancque (a/k/a bocce) or croquet in the summer games.
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Is there a Monty Python sketch about Gumbys curling?
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Much as I’d like to say there was… nope, ‘fraid not.
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That quote if funny and made me think of all those athletes with snowboards doing very dangerous stunts for a medal. That pizza commercial is too funny and sad. I wonder what some of these actors felt like especially the 3 who had to wear that outfit with the hats
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The waitstaff all wore that. I never ate there myself but I know others who have (and survived) and they told me. Kind of reminds me of the uniform Judge Reinhold had to wear in “Fast Times At Ridgemont High,” when he had to make a delivery for that restaurant…
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