The shame, the horror!
So, did anyone ELSE read this [link] and wonder if Maureen Dowd crossposted it to Current_Affairs (the political RPF comm on LJ)? Or just me?
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
Oz ,'Him'
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.
P.M. Marc - Aug 22, 2008 9:44:06 am PDT #4885 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
billytea - Aug 22, 2008 9:48:32 am PDT #4886 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think my favourite Olympian is from the Winter Olympics, Steven Bradbury. In 2002 he won Australia a most unlikely first gold medal ever in the Winter Olympics (in fact, the first for the entire southern hemisphere) in the men's 1,000 metres speed skating. If I may let Wikipedia tell the story:
In the quarter-finals, Bradbury thought himself eliminated. He finished third (only the top two advance), but Marc Gagnon was disqualified, thus allowing Bradbury to advance to the semi-finals.
In his semi-final, Bradbury was in last place, well off the pace of the medal favourites. However, three of the other competitors in the semi-final crashed into each other, paving the way for him to take second place and thus allowing him through to the final.
Again well off the pace in the final, once more all four of Bradbury's competitors (Apolo Ohno, Ahn Hyun-Soo, Li Jiajun and Mathieu Turcotte) crashed out at the final corner, leaving a shocked Bradbury to take the gold medal, the first for Australia or any southern hemisphere country in an Olympic Winter Games event. (Alisa Camplin also won gold for Australia at the same Olympics).
In other Olympic news, Australia has won another gold, in the men's pole vault! Without injury, as opposed to the Sydney Vault of Terror. It's our twelfth of these games, but the first we actually won wholly on dry land; and our first field gold medal in sixty years.
Jesse - Aug 22, 2008 9:52:50 am PDT #4887 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This weekend, I have a bday party tonight, a crossword tournament tomorrow, and mini golf on Sunday. I am expecting plenty of random fun.
Toddson - Aug 22, 2008 9:53:00 am PDT #4888 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I have to admit to a certain fondness for Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards. He represented the UK in the ski jump ... unfortunately, his style was such that a commentator referred to it as a "ski drop".
sarameg - Aug 22, 2008 9:55:07 am PDT #4889 of 10003
I pared my inbox down to 1000 messages!
P.M. Marc - Aug 22, 2008 9:57:19 am PDT #4890 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
My favorite has always been Edwin Moses. Smart *and* one of the most enormously talented atheletes in the history of ever.
Connie Neil - Aug 22, 2008 9:59:43 am PDT #4891 of 10003
brillig
Eddie the Eagle! The Olympian without Peer! Flinging himself to certain doom for the honour of Queen and Country!
sumi - Aug 22, 2008 10:04:22 am PDT #4892 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
I have to admit I remember my mother and I watching Peggy Fleming when I was a young child.
Aims - Aug 22, 2008 10:08:40 am PDT #4893 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I am long with the Nadia love.
shrift - Aug 22, 2008 10:11:35 am PDT #4894 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Wow. Discovering that you're in the background footage of a band interview? Deeply bizarre.