There are many athletic competitions around the world. Most of them are relatively familiar:
- Footraces of various distances (100m to 26.2mi)
- Soccer
- Various skiing events (cross-country, downhill, jumping)
- Basketball
- Jumping (high, long, triple)
- Field events (shot put, javelin, hammer throw)
- Gymnastics
- Swimming
There are other sports that are more regional, more obscure, more unusual, weirder.
Curling, which apparently involves yelling at a rock sliding along on some ice:
Crab racing – people just want to see the crabs crash.
Some, we all know the rules for, like RPS:
Cheese racing – are you faster than a cheddar?
Then there’s the ever-popular dwile flonking:
Buzkashi, aka dead goat polo:
#70 Iron Mary, you didn’t hear it from me,….but I do remember something about the “Fan Drive In” in Chicken $#i1 Alabama,…something to do with parking on the back row in December and unscrewing the lamp on the back road and putting in a AC plug so that you could plug in your Sears and Throwback electric blanket,…not that I… Read more »
#68 Dave
Are you perhaps hinting at some back-seat art appreciation?
Holy crap, what won’t Washington do next? After the bill to outlaw making fun of the TSA, here comes the Senate, standing up to Obammy and refusing to limit potatoes served in school meals. This bill is from squish-head Susan Collins of Maine. Can’t we get any sane adults voted into office? Not that I want Obammy to limit potatoes… Read more »
Saturday nights at the “Redland Drive In”. Ducks and hauls Butt!! 😀
#53 Texpat
Yes, I know you claimed to be an expert, but what is your claim based upon? Were you an art student? I really can’t imagine anything less elevated than that, to explain your expertise.
One more thang, ’bout my #52 have you heard about “Scaffolding Trailing” I’m guesing that Texpat knows about this, but some years ago a few small companies popped up to offer Scaffolding Training that was Blessed by OSHA and shortly after almost NO COMPANY did their own scaffolding, it is contracted out to companies that meet all the requirements for… Read more »
#60 phil
I thought so too. It was boring, so after 20 mins I decided to watch an episode of The Unit instead. A much better use of my time, I think.
So, Dennis the Menace hosts the Republican debate and after it is over he asks some loser Democrat operative (sorry,don’t remember his name), David Gergen, Donna Brazile and Gloria Borger what they think?!?! Why would anyone care what a bunch of Socialists Communists think?! Beam me up Scotty. ❓ Are they this STUPID?!?! YUP! I.E. do they think that anybody… Read more »
Speaking of CNN and the rest of the Disciples of Goebbels Media, it’s great to see and watch their coverage of the OWStreeters. They love em and adore em.–I think they especially love all the trash and waste they leave in the streets and parks. And the reason they love all the trash and waste is because that’s exactly what… Read more »
#58 Darren
Yep, those bus tire treads will be making another appearance on someone’s back soon. But will TBO be able to save Holder’s Armani suit? Or will Holder’s back have the impressions of TBO’s hands as he pushes him into traffic?
The CNN Anderson Cooper Presidential Debate is alot like tuna.
Canned.
#57 Darren “Birds of a Feather” As yea sow, so shall you reap.
The three American hikers who were held recently (some for over two years) in Iran on charges of espionage are the latest to come out in support of the Occupy Wall St. movement. But they didn’t just come out in support, they attended a rally in Oakland. Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal and Sarah Shourd spoke Monday at the Occupy Oakland… Read more »
Obama Vows To Hold Those Responsible for Fast And Furious Accountable
Leader!
Leader!
Leader!
Leader!
Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops — and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food. “Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.… Read more »
#34 & 35;
Shannon and Katfish are trolling again.
Ewww
Does Shannon bathe in Viagra?
#49 mharper42
Ogler ? Madame, I am no mere ogler.
Besides, I would have liked for my name to be on the study for posterity’s sake.
#50
Yup, we went through this crap way back in the 90’s and everyone except for a few Butt lick’s
thoughtknew that someone, somewhere was making a killing off of it.~PT Barnum was right. 😉
mharper42
Yup, but dang dammit we do try hard to master the skills,….Lots of practice, I say. 😉
Total Quality Management A childhood friend of mine was the executive assistant to the guy who dreamed this crap up. He was in Houston way back when. She sat down, all excited, at a family dinner one night and explained this new TQM concept to me. I looked at her and said this is complete bulls**t and asked if people… Read more »
#47 Texpat
My point exactly — ogling doesn’t have to be a guy’s official paid position to get his participation. 🙂
You can getcher pitcher took with a wookiee for $10k.
#45 mharper42 Listen, I am a world class expert on the aesthetics of the human female form with masters degrees in mammarian, gluteals and legs, but nobody asked me to participate in the study and I would have donated my services. Hah ! I didn’t have to suffer through large corporate torture rituals like TQM, Sigma 6, ISO +/-X, 5-S… Read more »
#44 welcome to my world
#43 Texpat
“Some people get the best jobs and the rest of us…” guys are just unpaid interns and apprentices.
OK, So over the years I’ve been through “TQM”,” ISO Umpteen thousand”, “6 Sigma”, “5-S” and now I have been asked forced to go to a 3 DAY CLASS on Kaizen! WTF! I went to the Orientation today, (1 hour) and the class is on Nov 7-9, since my manager and his manager are going, along with 3 of our… Read more »
Some people get the best jobs and the rest of us…well… This year Mallucci conducted a three-month study to pinpoint the exact factors that make a woman’s breasts attractive. Titled Concepts In Aesthetic Breast Dimensions: Analysis Of The Ideal Breast, Mallucci’s study analysed the breasts of 100 topless models. ‘For 30 years The Sun has been putting a picture of… Read more »
Perhaps Stacie has joined other deceased mothers loving babies in the Lord’s Nursery for aborted babies.
There surely is one.
If there was ever any doubt, a mother’s true love knows no bounds.
It sure is dusty in here.
Texpat: Even worse is the way in which regulations from different agencies overlap. Occasionally they cancel each other out, but more often they make things much worse. I remember a time when I was in a meeting involving the EPA, the DOT and the TCEQ. The meeting involved the final disposition of some empty 55 gal steel drums that had… Read more »
#25 WB The newer generation certainly has them, but I don’t know whether this particular aircraft did or what its age was. Even with the zero/zero ejection, I think the pilot was trying to give them some space and even then, the pilot suffered some serious injuries with the canopy destruction system and his parachute. The student pilot got off… Read more »
#36 my comment cont’d. I am hoping John Boehner will continue to live up to his promise to restore independence and authority to House committee chairs that was taken away by Gingrich and perpetuated by Hastert. I am for a less centralized authority in the most important chamber of the most important branch of our federal government. It is high… Read more »
Texpat, I worked for 10 years in the financial industry and now work for a software company that has both financial institutions and government institutions as clients. Believe me I know all about badly written legislation, regulatory creep, and the over abundance of rules and guidances from government entities. Even today I spend a few hours each week keeping up… Read more »
#27 duhmoose Precisely my point. I was rebutted on an email thread for misunderstanding the intent of Rep. Rogers and my reply is this is not rocket science; say what you mean and mean what you say. The American people are under daily assault by the federal government via regulatory and statutory agents of the executive branch by an avalanche… Read more »
7 X 5 !!!!
34
Even ole Bob Hope chimes in (from the grave no less)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=SkzV5AIK8iM
#31
Saw your comment there, Katfishy! WAAAAAAAAAAAA
If this is a repeat “so Solly” :
*Private PROPERTY?* – WHUZZAT?
Regarding Obammy’s stolen teleprompter, it was prolly metal recycling thieves…
That’s according to some Dem flack who musta forgot how well the Obama vacation to Martha’s Vineyard went over with the proles. And Spain. And Hawaii. And how she just HAD to leave 4hr before Big Ears, so she took her own 757. And the Wagyu beef And the weekly concerts in the WH. Yeah, they hang pretty much like… Read more »
On Drudge: Michelle Obama shifts into 2012 campaign mode
That’s according to some Dem flack who musta forgot how well the Obama vacation to Martha’s Vineyard went over with the proles.
#9 texpat Maybe I am missing something, but the wording looks like it is extending the provisions about impersonating an officer to TSA and restricting things like satire or humor. The key phrase to me is ““in a matter that is reasonably calculated to convey the impression that the wearer of the item of apparel is acting pursuant to the… Read more »
All those people in Mexico the Obama Administration is arming sure are nice people.
#23 texpat
Can’t watch it here, but I guess that aircraft doesn’t have zero/zero seats?
21 Shannon
Always knew you was a hole man. Just didn’t know you was that full of them. Understand mucho betta now why in a wind storm you can stand erect without cement shoes.
Gather round and share the sheer, stark terror of flying a two-seater CAF Canadian Hawk combat training aircraft as you ascend from 70 feet, at the end of the runway in Moosejaw, Sakatchewan, and suck a big goose into the intake of your left engine. You are too low to eject and live so you hope and pray you can… Read more »
#10 Pyro: Primary him!