Monthly Archive for August, 2009

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Golf Added As Olympic Sport: Make it a Mixed Scramble

Published on August 13, 2009 in Random. 3 Comments Tags: baseball, karate, loud mouth golf, olympic golf, skins, softball, squash.

Golf will be an official Olympic sport at the 2016 Summer Games.

Here are the loser applicants.

Baseball – neener. neener. neener MLB
Softball – girl’s game
Squash – too much like LaCrosse or Cricket, I forget which.
Karate – board smashing and brick breaking, I hope this gets added soon. Olympics need more bloodsport
Roller Sports – Oh yeah, how did they miss this? half pipes and flat track racing. Hot.

Golf was an Olympic sport in 1900 in Paris and 1904 in St. Louis. I recall them well remember reading about them.

Golf proposes a 72-hole stroke-play Olympic competition for men and women, with 60 players in each field. The world’s top 15 players would qualify automatically.

Ah crap. Doomed. Stroke play golf is boring to watch on Tee Vee.

Except for Goofy Golf events after the season:

Three Tour Challenge: Geezers, Girls and Guys
Skins
Senior Skins
LPGA Skins
Shark Shootout
Par Three deal played in the piney woods of Northern Michigan
Ryder Cup (not really Goofy Golf, but close.)

The Olympic Golf format should be one players can identify with.

A mixed sex scramble. Include mulligans, tosses, skirts, and have a beer cart.

U.S. Team outfitted by LoudMouthGolf of course. (Which solves the problem of letting women play, because they will refuse to be seen on the same links with guys wearing these outfits.)

And fer gawd’s sake: allowing cheering and hazing during Olympic Golf in 2016.

I Knew Campbell Brown Was the Smartest of the Bunch

Published on August 12, 2009 in Random. 0 Comments Tags: big swinging anchors, campbell brown, cnn, nbc.

When Campbell Brown worked at NBC, I forecast great things for her. I thought she had a bright future.
Then she got with child and moved to CNN.
Career killers.

Here’s a commentary she did recently about the “big swinging anchors” and their feud on Prime Time Cable TeeVee (who watches this stuff anyway?) She never mentions O’Reilly and Olbermann by name, just as “big swinging anchors.”

Yeah, Campbell Brown, lots o’ guys wish you would hoist their big swinging anchors.

Arrrrrr, nice ratings boost.

Explaining Swine Flu Coverage to Former Anchor Person

Published on August 10, 2009 in Baby Boomer, Family and Health. 0 Comments Tags: anchorperson, hype, swine flu.

Amy, my daughter was an anchorperson.

She thinks the coverage of swine flu is bogus:

this swine flu stuff is crap. Its just the flu for God’s sake. I’m sooooooo sick of hearing about it!!!!!
the media is to blame. They’re hyping it up!!!!

So I explained:

People Die.

Media goes batshit.

People elect Republicans.

It’s Karl Rove’s fault.

Here’s her blooper reel from Colletch. Southern Illinois University.

Geeky Animated Gif Monday

Published on August 10, 2009 in Random. 2 Comments

Geeks are always careful when they eyeball the car next to them.

You Might Be a Boomer If…

Published on August 9, 2009 in Baby Boomer. 2 Comments

You might be a boomer if you remember…
# All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
# It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
# Nearly everyone’s Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
# Nobody owned a purebred dog?
# When a quarter was a decent allowance?
# You’d reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
# Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
# All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
# You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn’t pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
# Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
# It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
# They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. And they did it!
# When a 57 Chevy was everyone’s dream car…to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
# No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
# Lying on your back in the grass with your friends? …. and saying things like, ‘That cloud looks like a… ‘?
# Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
# Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
# And with all our progress, don’t you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
# When being sent to the principals office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home.
# Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn’t because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.. .as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
h/t: Jonco