Some Gotta Win, Some Gotta Luge...

Over to Curt Dowdy at NBC Sports:


"Yes, it is with a spontaneous outburst of apathy that

American viewers are turning their channels away in unprecedented numbers.

Of course, I'm talking about the 25,497th Annual Winter Olympics

live on tape from Vancouver.

And what an auspicious beginning!! Only one fatality on

the first day!!

And what deplorable taste of that one announcer who said, "He came here to win the

gold, but wound up taking the steel!!"
( Yeah, yeah, I
know---'tragedy, plus time'---but hey, it's been four days already!!).

And lets not overlook the fact that tens of thousands of protesting supporters of

the "indigenous peoples", as well as anti-corporatists have been having something of

an Olympics themselves outside the venue :

You should have seen the events;

Women's Free-Form Flopping Breasts While Thrusting Their Protest Signs Up in the Air.

Synchronized Whining

Men's Timed Beating the Living Crap Out of the Guy in his Underwear

Carrying the Olympic Torch!

Cross Country Slogan-Shouting

But other than these few contretemps, great fun is being had by

some.

Lesser Known Winter Olympic Events you may find entertaining:

Men's Extreme Snowball Fight

Men's Downslope Texting

Women's Upslope Shlepping.

Men's Avalanche Survival

The Sub-Saharan Bobsled Team

Senior Citizens Ski/Walker Slalom Competition.


This has been Curt Dowdy from Vancouver."