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'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Trudy Booth - Aug 15, 2008 4:54:47 am PDT #3445 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I loved the way they showed Bela Karolyi's reaction to Liukin's floor routine. Poor Bob Kosta's looked like he was going to slide right under the desk to get away from him.

Was Bela giving that "I'm very nearly a pedophile" vibe he gives sometimes? That man annoys the crap out of me, I've been skipping past him.

We get it, Bela, the Chinese women ain't women. It's wrong. I don't like it either. But I don't have a couple of decades worth of transforming the sport from young women to pre-pubescent girls under my belt to answer for now do I?

It's very upsetting. I feel for them. They work so hard and have so much riding on them at such a young age. And their joints are being ripped apart so they won't be able to compete when they're older ::cough:: Dominique Moscianu ::cough:: And I'm pretty sure it verges on child abuse. And I'm pretty sure NONE OF THE ABOVE BOTHERS BELA KAROLY, he just doesn't like to lose.


Connie Neil - Aug 15, 2008 5:00:43 am PDT #3446 of 10003
brillig

he just doesn't like to lose.

There was an article online somewhere saying pretty much that, that the Karolys are only making a fuss because they can't get away with doing the same thing themselves and their girls are/were getting beat.

Does anyone have a picture of Khorkina? I want to see if she's grown into the wonderful angles of her face as well as Nadia has.


sumi - Aug 15, 2008 5:04:32 am PDT #3447 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Nadia looks amazing. I am sad that I miss Khorkina. And actually, Mary Lou Retton has fined down and looks good too. Just not spectacular.


Barb - Aug 15, 2008 5:09:51 am PDT #3448 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”

Khorkina in February of this year


Calli - Aug 15, 2008 5:24:03 am PDT #3449 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I swear, this town - people don't just have grills - they also sometimes just burn stuff in their backyards.

One of my neighbors combined the two and burned several years of financial statements in his grill. I guess that's one way of avoiding identity theft without powering up the shredder. But he kinda looked like he was trying to hide a second career of cooking someone's books. La la la, nothing to see here, I'm just spending a lovely spring afternoon torching bank statements, la la la.


sumi - Aug 15, 2008 5:36:23 am PDT #3450 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Article about the Liukins.


Kat - Aug 15, 2008 5:41:50 am PDT #3451 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Oh! Khorkina is smiling in that photo!

Instead of watching the olympics, I went to bed. Which means I missed gymnastics and another phelphian moment. Enh.

Then this morning I got into a self-inflicted car accident. It was a very The Happening moment where the tree in my yard attacked me.

Can I have a do over please?


tommyrot - Aug 15, 2008 5:44:17 am PDT #3452 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Then this morning I got into a self-inflicted car accident.

Yikes! You're OK, right? How damaged is your car?


Calli - Aug 15, 2008 5:45:59 am PDT #3453 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Those yard trees are getting vicious! I'm sorry they've turned on you, Kat. I hope you and your car weren't hurt too badly. Maybe you could leave a ream of paper next to the tree's trunk as a warning?


Nilly - Aug 15, 2008 5:46:21 am PDT #3454 of 10003
Swouncing

Kat, I'm so sorry!

But, you're OK, right? Was there anybody else in the car?