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Olympics? What are those??
If I hear anything else about Michelle Kwan, I'm going to vomit. It was replayed between NBC and local coverage AT LEAST 10 times. We know, she's gone. She shouldn't have been there in the first place. Get over it and move on!
Heh. NBC offered her a spot in the announcer's booth (like an hour after her press conference announcing she was withdrawing!), but she turned them down. Clearly, they're very worried about the dropoff in ratings from losing the "biggest star" of the Olympics (from an American perspective, that is, and a TV-centric one at that; even if healthy, she wasn't the top skater on the U.S. team anymore).
Hey Brendan, speaking of sports triumphs, you never shared the results of your last bowling outing. Any high scores beaten?
Alas, not quite. I bowled a 118 -- still quite good for me, but not a new record.
It was a very dramatic 118, though. I had 92 through nine frames, plus I had gotten a spare on the ninth frame, so whatever I got with my first roll of the tenth frame would be doubled. I knocked down 8 pins with my first roll, which brought me up to 108. This was crucial, because earlier that day, my friend and teammate Brian had said "we need a 120 from you tonight." It seemed like a ridiculously high expectation at the time (I think that's why he said it, heh), given that my previous career high was a 127 and I usually bowl in the 70-80 range. But there I was, sitting on a 108 with a chance to make it 110 with a spare and thus earn a shot at one last roll and, potentially, exactly a 120. So I focused and rolled the ball toward the two wayward pins. It was a wee bit off target, but with some Carlton Fisk-style persuasion from yours truly, it just barely managed to clip one of the pins, which in turn knocked down the other. I did a dramatic celebration dance (my reactions are the best part of my bowling game), which unintentionally involved a weird Adam Morrison-style hair flip (I really need a haircut), and then walked over to Brian and "called my shot" -- telling him, "if I get a strike here, I get a 120." Alas, I choked: I bowled another 8, so I only got a 118, not the coveted 120. Still, the dramatic triumph of that penultimate spare was one of the highlights of my bowling career. :)
You know, in snow boarding pot may be performance enhancing, but does it really give you an unfair advantage?
(Also, I do think he has an event or two left... but after the Olympics it's off to Amsterdam...)
To trade the half-pipe for a well-packed full one.
Haw haw Phead! Indeed! :)
"...(I really need a haircut)..."
Yeah, yuh Do. For a minute there I thought the Superpatriot with the Flag was a Girl...Oh...Wait...OK I see now, it's some Olympic hippiedude, not You :)..."Striking a blow for goofy-looking redheads everywhere", to be Sure :>...well, Hie thee Hence to the Hairdresser's anyway. :)
"the Flying Tomato" WAW HAW HAW!!! :) very Good / I used to date a Pumpkin wayback in the Day y'know. (Yeah, yuh Do. :) Her scarlet hair was a lot Shorter that That guy's, too. ;> Then again now I'm a lot Shorter than my darling brownhaired Wife the love of my Life ~ not to mention, than our long-tressed son & Heir :) ~ so it all Comes Out Even in the end. ;>
if Carrot top can win a gold medal, Pauly Shore, you can too.
I prefer Shaun White's Italian nickname: Il Pomodoro Volante!
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