In light of the end of the Beijing Olympics (and the start of the Paralympics) I came accross this amusing list of comments from the 2004 Olympics that I thought I would share. Accroding to Snopes this list may or may not be real, but it sure is funny in any case:
Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators during
the 2004 Olympics that they would like to take back
1. Softball announcer: 'If history repeats itself, I should think we can
expect the same thing again.'
2. Dressage commentator: 'This is really a lovely horse and I speak from
personal experience since I once mounted her mother.'
3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: 'I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother
and father.'
4. Boxing Analyst: 'Sure there have been injuries,and even some deaths
in boxing, but none of them really that serious.'
5. Weightlifting commentator: 'This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria . I saw
her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.'
6. Basketball analyst: 'He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't
like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.'
7. At the rowing medal ceremony: 'Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the
IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.'
8. Soccer commentator: 'Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've
got eleven Dicks on the field.'
9. Tennis commentator: 'One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is
that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses
them . . .. Oh my God, what have I just said?'
Now it's on, full bore, until November 4th. Any bets on where polls will settle once the convention bounces tamp down, in a week or two?
The next big events are the debates. Here's the schedule:
First presidential debate
Friday, September 26
The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.
Jim Lehrer
Executive Editor and Anchor, The NewsHour, PBS
Vice presidential debate
Thursday, October 2
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
Gwen Ifill
Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour, and Moderator and Managing Editor,
Washington Week, PBS
Second presidential debate (town meeting)
Tuesday, October 7
Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn.
Tom Brokaw
Special Correspondent, NBC News
Third presidential debate
Wednesday, October 15
Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.
Bob Schieffer
CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent, and Host, Face the Nation
I'll be serving popcorn for the VP debate, I'm expecting fireworks.
Finally, it seems someone might DO SOMETHING about all this shit, Joe Biden hints at a criminal investigation of the Bush years if Obama is elected.
From The Guardian :
Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said yesterday that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November. Biden's comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin. But his statements represent the Democrats' strongest vow so far this year to investigate alleged misdeeds committed during the Bush years.
So, this video host for http://www.videosift.com/video/Sarah-Michelle-Gellar-Jonathan-Ross has been pissing me and others off, but I've found a replacement to resubmit with. only problem is its a bit raw, being an 150meg .mpg(VCD). Anyone able to DL/encode/upload for me? what with the no self linking and all.
Well, this post is being written in Google Chrome, Google's shiny (HAR HAR HAR!)new web-browser, I've only been using it for half an hour or so, but so far I like it alot. its really, really simple to use, its much faster for me than firefox is, and its just overall awesome in functionality
Was in Vegas with a friend this weekend. Didn't do too much gambling, mostly saw a couple shows and watched a lot of anime on laptop. (Only true geeks would go to Vegas and spend half the trip in the room watching anime.)
My last hour in town I did my only real gambling. I laid down $100 at a roulette table. I followed a couple of ad-hoc strategies like splitting between two numbers across the board and selecting birthdays and anniversaries (which I hit on a few times).
After the dealer told everyone zeroes kept coming up at her previous break, I denied my instinct to bet on them, and of course they came up. After that I kept laying a stack across zero and double zero every spin. Finally 0 hit and my pile of chips was up to $165.
It was at this point I decided to place the most exciting bet of my life thus far. The entire time I was at the table red came up 3 times and black about a dozen, and every time I bet on red I lost. So to the dealer's dismay I enjoyed slowly pushing my entire enormous pile over to black. I wanted to vote red the whole time, but it just kept failing me.
It was a calculated risk and I had no delusions about any magical ability to entice black to come up. (Though I was stupid in thinking that there is some kind of a trend to consider. I reminded myself later: It's completely random, stupid!)
So as you can probably tell by now, that little ugly ball landed on red. I wasn't shocked, nor upset. I simply had a big smile on my face as I stood up and walked away knowing it was a great gambling experience to look back on. (At least I lost to red instead of a zero!)
Roulette's really fun. I can't wait to go back and play some more, but next time with Charms so I can really have some fun. (I missed her terribly. )
So, I could do with a nice source of regular exercise that is fun and social and which I will sustain, so that I can restore the fitness I would have liked to have had before I fell ill. Anyone else here played at capoeira?
This is something that looks fun, and is happening just up the road from where I live. Which is cool. Aparently this guy would be my teacher. I'm up for that.
So, any costal places needing a sun shy programer?
Oh, and "Demographers have compiled a so-called "Love Map" that shows how the various clusters of unattached men and women are distributed across the Australian continent. " sounds a vluable resource...
Two [future] hurricanes are now being tracked bound for the south eastern US. Gustav's Cone of Death shows it likely bound for the Mid-Gulf coast on Tuesday. Hannah's Cone shows it just off the coast of Florida Tuesday. Given the enormous size of hurricanes and their surrounding storms and such, Florida may be looking at some freaking weird and crazy weather. Think of two Cat 2/3 hurricanes close enough to interact at least on the fringe.
Floridians should be praying that the eyes of these storms wind up on the far edges of these probability cones. If they wind up on the inside, we could be seeing some really unique weather. Of course I don't know much about mereorology so it could wind up being just rainy, but it looks like it could be interesting at least.
A night of inspired debaucheries with two genius', laughing their asses silly....Now we need a similarly enthusiastic comic book artist, to work on storyboards for the epic that unfolds, on a planet that Superman would leave for MYTZLPLK's dimension, rather than get involved.....
Top Ten Motherfuckers You Would Raise From The Dead & Give Superhuman Powers to
11. Walt Disney- while within range, of any living , non-human , he has the power to turn the unfortunate creature, into a random interpretation of the psyche of any number of humans, who happen to get in his way-
10. Ed Wood Jr.-Power to cause any man, to heartily embrace his feminine side
9.. Princess Di- (The power to appear to any man that she is the most beautiful woman they had ever seen, while at the same time making his dick shrivel
8.Mr .Rodgers-Ability to make anyone in his vicinity, comfortable with who they are, and the ability to see their own self worth, (but only once a day for thirty minutes).
7.Emperor Norton-while within range, the average person will find themselves immersed in an alternate reality, that is Emperor Norton’s paradigm.
6. Elvis Aaron Presley Has the ability, to turn peanut butter and banana sandwiches, ..into bricks.
5.Nikola Tesla- Has the ability to generate unlimited power, with enough titties in his face, by spinning Thomas Edison in his grave, at rotational vectors approaching the speed of light…
4.Adolf Hitler and the power to restore foreskins….but only on his knees wearing a bunny suit
3.Doc Holiday-Never runs out of ammo, nor is there loss of edge on his blade, and exudes an unlimited supply of coke and N2O, from any pore on his body...
2. Mark Twain-Sam Clemens-Ability to keep Doc holiday occupied, and otherwise distracted….
*.1. R.Buckminster Fuller-Will Realize his power when he comes up with a way to use Tesla’s corpse-generator, to get him the fuck off the planet for which he once saw unlimited human potential…..
Tropical Storm Gustav (downgraded as I type) is not even in the Gulf of Mexico nor is it over Cuba, yet the local forecasters are already panicking our local populace with reminders about supplies they should purchase and things they should do in preparation. Here’s a bit of humor concerning the National Hurricane Center’s forecast cone.
The Weather Channel shows the cone and where the storm may hit along the Gulf Coast. Right now it extends from Texas to Florida.
Here are seven computer model projections. More of them have shifted west since I last looked at them. A high pressure system has been sitting over Florida. High pressure systems help protect an area. Too bad one isn't over my area right now.
Today, an ABC reporter on a public street was arrested while taking video and pictures of elected public officials.
The story goes like this:
ABC news was working on a story about the funding of the events surrounding the DNC. Reporter Asa Eslocker was taking video and pictures of senators and lobbyists outside of the Brown Palace Hotel. He was on the sidewalk of a public street. He was first informed (falsely perhaps?) that the sidewalk was owned by the hotel and that he had to vacate it. "The sheriff's officer is seen telling Eslocker the sidewalk is owned by
the hotel. Later he is seen pushing Eslocker off the sidewalk into
oncoming traffic, forcing him to the other side of the street.(1)" Soon, a Denver police officer arrived, arrested him, and haulled him off in handcuffs... Police on the scene refused (legally) to tell ABC lawyers the cause of the arrest. Later they informed them that the charges were tresspassing, Interferance, and Refusal to obey a lawful order.
ABC is naturally upset. I'm not sure what to think seeing as how it seems that the hotel may have owned the property and had ordered him off of it. He seemed to disobey this order, thus tresspassing. But, it all seems eerily dubious, and I thought the sidewalks in cities were the property of the city and hence, the public. They are in my town and in the last town I lived in.
Any thoughts?
I couldn't find video and I have a feeling we would only get to see the parts that look to exhonerate the reporter anyway.
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