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February 08, 2014

Olympics Open Thread - [Niedermeyer's Dead Horse]
— Open Blogger

The word incredible is suitable to describe last night's opening ceremony in Sochi: Incredible special effects that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. Incredible glossing-over of the facts in the telling of Russia's history. Incredibly bad coverage by NBC wherein they referred to the Soviet Union as , I'm not kidding here, "one of modern historyÂ’s pivotal experiments". Russia's own Garry Kasparov has been on a tear for days.

And Bob Costas....

Bob, did you drink the yellow water? I can't stand to look at him on a normal day but, for NBC to expect me to look at him with that gross, runny, squinty eye... no thank you.

The games are now underway. The United States hasn't quite started raking in the medals, yet. Congratulations to Sage Kotsenburg and Hannah Kearney of Team USA. Kotsenburg took the gold medal in the Men's Slopestyle competition and Kearney took the bronze in Ladies Freestyle Skiing Moguls. You can keep tabs on the official medal count at the Sochi Olympics site, where you can filter the results in any number of ways.

And, though it seems so long ago, Gabe reminds us, via Twitter, that this never gets old:

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1 I wonder what the rifles they use in the Biathlon cost.

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 01:03 PM (TI3xG)

2 U-S-A!

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 01:04 PM (ZshNr)

3 I wonder what the rifles they use in the Biathlon cost. *** Imma take a guess they didn't pick them up in the sporting goods department at Walmart.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 01:04 PM (DmNpO)

4 Incredible works, since NBC stopped being a credible media outlet years ago.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 08, 2014 01:06 PM (POpqt)

5 I want one of those guns Alan Tudyk used.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 08, 2014 01:06 PM (NRYdU)

6 Ohhhhh yeahhhhh!!!

http://twitchy.com/2014/02/08/sochi jailbreak-us-bobsledders-kool-aid-man-bathroom-pic-goes-viral-photo/

(remove space between "sochi jailbreak" to go to the link)

Posted by: Hate Miser at February 08, 2014 01:06 PM (3P6Lx)

7 I can hardly wait till an American athlete wins a gold medal so Obama can tweet a picture of himself.

Posted by: Mallfly at February 08, 2014 01:06 PM (bJm7W)

8 The speed skater in the CSM article said his skates cost $2500, replacement blades 500 bucks a pair. I bet those rifles cost upwards of 10 grand, I'll go check.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 01:07 PM (ZshNr)

9 So ... the bad guy in the Lego Movie, President Business, is obviously based on Mitt Romney, right? He looks like Romney. Same hair.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 08, 2014 01:08 PM (ZPrif)

10 Allow me to summarize the Winter Olympics: Ice is slippery.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 01:09 PM (CF9Gk)

11 Won't do a spoiler on the event, but we already have a gold.

Posted by: Hate Miser at February 08, 2014 01:09 PM (3P6Lx)

We watched some of the figure skating and the speed skating today. Two things stood out: the attendance was way down and the heads of state were in attendance. Except Barky McFuckstick.

Watching the King and Queen of the Netherlands cheering on their skaters was pretty cool.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2014 01:09 PM (vzfrq)

13 Again, I'm not as shocked by this as I am by Costas interviewing a visibly stoned Barack Obama. High as a kite on national television.

The guy is starting to unravel. He craves attention and adulation, and yet he is now so politically radioactive that his own party's Senate candidates are refusing to be seen with him on the campaign trail. That visibly stings the Narcissist in Chief. He got openly bitchy about Kay Hagan's demurral just a few days ago.

Imagine how uncorked he might become if Reid becomes Senate Minority Leader next year.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 08, 2014 01:09 PM (gqT4g)

14 So where did I watch the opening ceremonies?

Inside an apartment in the Burj Khalifah, the world's tallest building.

I totally scored, getting an invite from a couple that I met 26 hours before. Spent the evening with them in the resident's lounge on the 123rd floor, before heading to the airport.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 08, 2014 01:10 PM (LxcRK)

15 Won't do a spoiler on the event, but we already have a gold. *** It's in the post.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 01:10 PM (DmNpO)

16 I'm just going to watch the hockey and maybe the skiing. I see the chicks play tonight. I can't stand Costas. Douchebags use him to douche.

Posted by: puddleglum at February 08, 2014 01:10 PM (Pihsk)

17 Here's a side by side comparison of Romney in the President Business - pic.twitter.com/UwGSVyL6rQ

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 08, 2014 01:10 PM (ZPrif)

18 "So ... the bad guy in the Lego Movie, President Business, is obviously based on Mitt Romney, right?"

Psssst. It IS Mitt. Uncredited part.

He also does all his own stunts.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 08, 2014 01:11 PM (gqT4g)

19 That "Chicago is Out???" video is hilarious. I don't remember seeing it before.

Posted by: rickl at February 08, 2014 01:11 PM (sdi6R)

20 Chicago, probably the only city on Earth that would have had more graft and corruption than Putin's Russia. HAHA!

Posted by: --- at February 08, 2014 01:11 PM (MMC8r)

21
The hidden cameras have made fantastic photos of young American females showering, lying about naked, and touching their pussies.

Why do crazy American's call it the pussy? We say it's a nuyet, translated as Tibetan yak.

Posted by: Vlad at February 08, 2014 01:12 PM (nQjHM)

22 A pivotal experiment . . . . . .that failed.
But we shall persevere, we shall try again, and again, until we get it right, no matter the failures. We shall create the perfect man, the perfect people, Utopia shall be ours, if it takes a thousand years.

Posted by: Ivanoff Francs at February 08, 2014 01:12 PM (AFFI2)

23 But isn't the story of the Sochi bobsledder really the story of Obama?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 08, 2014 01:12 PM (LxcRK)

24 My interest in Winter Olympic sports...

Hockey

Curling
Luge/Bobsled/Skeleton

And that's about it

Posted by: Dave S. at February 08, 2014 01:13 PM (UvR6d)

25 When does curling start? I can get stoned and watch that shit for hours on end.

Posted by: mugiwara at February 08, 2014 01:14 PM (LltoM)

26 I see some of the Biathlon rifles cost $4,000, per a shooting website. Not as bad as I thought, though the add-ons probably add up.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 01:14 PM (ZshNr)

27 pjmedia says Putin's choice of the woman who helped light the torch was a direct personal insult aimed at Obama. She's a politician who had tweeted a racist picture of our lovely First Couple a while back and wound up having to delete it.

Posted by: stace at February 08, 2014 01:15 PM (9PXzx)

OT; the PGA Tour is at one of the most beautiful places on earth this weekend, Pebble Beach. I would love to visit it someday, before California falls into the Pacific.

Posted by: puddleglum at February 08, 2014 01:15 PM (Pihsk)

29 Go Scandis !

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 01:16 PM (P6QsQ)

30 Is it bad that I don't care how Putin insults Obama? Because I don't.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 08, 2014 01:16 PM (oFCZn)

31 Oh yeah, I'm pretty fuckin tired of Bob Costas and NBC foisting gay people and lifestyles on me by way of sports and commercials and commentary. Who cares if they're gay!?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2014 01:18 PM (F1lOF)

32 Chicago is out?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 01:18 PM (6bMeY)

33 I'd feel a tiny bit of outrage over the Obama pic if I didn't have a dozen friends and co-workers send me pics of Bush as a chimp for 8 years.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 08, 2014 01:18 PM (ZPrif)

34 The 15 year old Russian female skater was unbelievable today! No, I can't remember her name. Team USA finished in the top 5 in skating so they get to go on.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 08, 2014 01:18 PM (bCEmE)

35 Imma take a guess they didn't pick them up in the sporting goods department at Walmart.>>

USA's Tim Burke shoots an Anschutz. Only price for a factory one I found was $3k. But I would guess there are many upgrades and tweaks after that.

http://tinyurl.com/m9pwptu

http://tinyurl.com/l4atwko

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 01:18 PM (TI3xG)

36 Re the Olympics: I overcame immense personal hardship and tragedy to achieve my life's ambition to post this comment today.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 08, 2014 01:20 PM (8ZskC)

37 "Is it bad that I don't care how Putin insults Obama"

Pretty much this. Wow, our country is fucked up now. We now despise our president more than the Russians.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at February 08, 2014 01:20 PM (LxcRK)

38 You can feel the pain watching the biathlon. Don't know how they do it and can still be steady enough to shoot.

Posted by: Caliban at February 08, 2014 01:20 PM (DrC22)

39 Bob Costas only comes out at night. I've been watching the Olympics since 8:30 this morning and enjoying every minute of it. No Costas in sight, and nearly 100% politics free.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 01:20 PM (P6QsQ)

40 Irina Rodnina was one of the finest figure skaters ( pairs) to take the ice... choosing her may well have been intended as an insult, but she may have just been chosen because of her contribution to the sport.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 01:21 PM (Z6IPg)

41 Imagine how uncorked he might become if when Reid becomes Senate Minority Leader next year. FIFY

Posted by: Fox2! at February 08, 2014 01:21 PM (cHwSy)

42 "Oh yeah, I'm pretty fuckin tired of Bob Costas and NBC foisting gay people and lifestyles on me by way of sports and commercials and commentary."

They're just making sure you can't escape me no matter where you go.

Posted by: The Preferred Narrative at February 08, 2014 01:21 PM (gqT4g)

43 30 Is it bad that I don't care how Putin insults Obama? Because I don't. Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 08, 2014 05:16 PM (oFCZn) Me too, and that's a first for me. Putin's a horrible tyrant, but at least he's wants to advance Russia's influence, unlike our pussy president, who wants the US to be weaker.

Posted by: stace at February 08, 2014 01:21 PM (9PXzx)

44 I think the only people stunned about this are Americans. Well, liberal Americans.
I think TFG's aura wore off for the rest of the world within six months.

Posted by: Dandolo at February 08, 2014 01:22 PM (0XBx+)

45 The 10,000th photo of Bush as a chimp sent out by Democrats is just good clean fun, a single pic re-tweeted by some foreign Russian chick of Obama and Mooch looking at a banana ... national outrage.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 08, 2014 01:22 PM (ZPrif)

46 Yulia. She was adorable. I thought the Canadian pair did well, too, even with the stumbles. And our ice dancers did as well as I have ever seen them do!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 01:23 PM (Z6IPg)

47 >>> Won't do a spoiler on the event, but we already have a gold Dude, I won?

Posted by: Gold medal winner at February 08, 2014 01:23 PM (Ua6T/)

48 And the feminazi's heads explode.

Posted by: Adam at February 08, 2014 01:23 PM (Aif/5)

49 Given the history of futility by the USA in the Nordic events perhaps we should refer to it as the why-athlon.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 01:23 PM (1rpo3)

50 Are there any internet sites for watching live coverage? I don't have cable so I can't watch it on TV. And I'd prefer not to watch NBC's coverage anyway.

Posted by: rickl at February 08, 2014 01:23 PM (sdi6R)

51 When's the dwarf bowling? Is that in the Summer games?

Posted by: The Guy Who Digs Dwarf Bowling at February 08, 2014 01:25 PM (8ZskC)

52 Ski jumping!

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 01:25 PM (ZshNr)

53 Given the history of futility by the USA in the Nordic events perhaps we should refer to it as the why-athlon.>>

If they let us use drones we'd kick ass.

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 01:26 PM (TI3xG)

54 Rickl - bing "Olympic coverage live stream free" I see lots of entries bit I don't know how to post links on my iPad.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 01:26 PM (P6QsQ)

55 "Chicago is out?!?" - the sweet sound of Daley, Jarrett, Obama, etc being not just thwarted but slapped in the face. Thank God we dodged that bullet, although Rahm's doing his best to borrow and spend us into Detroit.

Posted by: venus velvet at February 08, 2014 01:26 PM (g94P/)

56 bbc's coverage is floating out there on the streaming sites. NBC seems to be doing a surprisingly effective job of blocking unofficial streams.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 08, 2014 01:27 PM (ZPrif)

57 "Are there any internet sites for watching live coverage?"

Da tovarisch! We have full streaming HD via our site. Bring all your credit cards.

Posted by: Russian hackers at February 08, 2014 01:27 PM (gqT4g)

58 I wanted to try water skiing but I couldn't find a lake with a hill on it.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 01:27 PM (sa0Di)

59 I am huge fan of winter olympics and winter sports but I have to say nearly all the winter olympics sports are useless. ski jumping, luge, bobsled, downhill skiing, and of course curling, there is essentially no usefulness in any of 'em. biathalon is useful but everyone knows cross country skiing is a stand in for waterboarding when the temperature is below 32 degrees.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 01:28 PM (rDidD)

60 Chicago is OUT????? Ah, I watched the original. That clip will never get old. Now I'm headed for Chick-Fil-A for some chickeny goodness.

Posted by: Shaden Freude at February 08, 2014 01:28 PM (iX/Ib)

61 who gives a shit about the Olympics?

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 08, 2014 01:29 PM (q+fqH)

62 It's in the post. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse ________ Hah! You don't think they're actually reading the content, do you?

Posted by: shredded chi - cereal killer at February 08, 2014 01:29 PM (t+Ksb)

63 FYI:

Putin's ass smells like borscht.

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 08, 2014 01:29 PM (5fSr7)

64 30 Is it bad that I don't care how Putin insults Obama?

Because I don't.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 08, 2014 05:16 PM (oFCZn)

Putin insults Obama much less than Obama insults Americans.

Posted by: buzzion at February 08, 2014 01:31 PM (LI48c)

65 Curling with cats would have been interesting. http://tinyurl.com/mckpgb2

Posted by: YIKES! at February 08, 2014 01:31 PM (mETGQ)

66 Isn't water boarding below 32Âº essentially a unilateral snowball fight?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 01:31 PM (xyzqd)

67 everyone knows cross country skiing is a stand in for waterboarding when the temperature is below 32 degrees.>>

I was on the cross country ski team in HS. 32 degrees was to hot and 10 degrees was about perfect. Though back then there was none of that ski skating crap.

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 01:32 PM (TI3xG)

68 A Chicago Olympics would be a complete and utter disaster, anyway. We can mock the Russians, with good reason, but the graft and corruption Chicago has to offer is second to none. I'd imagine it would be about 400% of budget when it was all said and done, and the rest of the state would have been ready to secede and form the 51st state.

Posted by: Dave S. at February 08, 2014 01:33 PM (UvR6d)

69 Many of the Olympic events would have been held in my area of Wisconsin had Chicago gotten the bid.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 01:34 PM (P6QsQ)

70 HuffPo rips the bullshit Woody Allen defense which was published by the NYT. http://t.co/E7PiKuwenS

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 01:34 PM (DmNpO)

71 OK. Since this is open, I'll repost thia from the ONT: Have y'all seen the Canadian Luge commercial? Only 30 seconds. The message might be gay, but I tought it was funny. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n4CEaoNADiY

Posted by: shredded chi - cereal killer at February 08, 2014 01:34 PM (t+Ksb)

72 Hah! You don't think they're actually reading the content, do you? *** touche'

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 01:35 PM (DmNpO)

73 I want to see the biathlon too. Are they going to show it, or are .22 rifles too scary for Costas to deal with? I'm probably oversensitive, but it seemed to me the media wanted to keep the great performance of our 2010 Olympic shooting team classified.

Posted by: stace at February 08, 2014 01:36 PM (9PXzx)

74 >>Won't do a spoiler on the event, but we already have a gold. *** >>It's in the post. Nobody reads the posts.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 01:36 PM (g1DWB)

75 Now curdling. That might be interesting.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 01:36 PM (xyzqd)

76 Where is the post?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 01:37 PM (6bMeY)

77 They showed some biathlon earlier. I assume other events are coming up.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 01:37 PM (ZshNr)

78 I want to see the biathlon too. Are they going to show it, or are .22 rifles too scary for Costas to deal with? I'm probably oversensitive, but it seemed to me the media wanted to keep the great performance of our 2010 Olympic shooting team classified. *** I just watched it. NBC

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 01:37 PM (DmNpO)

79 The hardest part about dwarf bowling is finding enough dwarfs that are official size and weight.

Posted by: The Guy Who Digs Dwarf Bowling at February 08, 2014 01:38 PM (8ZskC)

80 I love that "Chicago is out?" part.

Love it.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Scurrilous Rumors - Get Yours Today at the Outrage Outlet at February 08, 2014 01:39 PM (gmoEG)

81 Woody made a good defense. Mia is clearly lying and brainwashed her young kid. Pretty sick.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 08, 2014 01:39 PM (ZPrif)

82 I imagine curling is a lot like bowling or darts, in that performance is enhanced with optimal dosage of beer. Right around that 3-6 beer window, you're golden, but take a sip of that 7th beer and your game instantly collapses to shit.

Posted by: Dave S. at February 08, 2014 01:39 PM (UvR6d)

83 That G E commercial bothers me.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 01:39 PM (P6QsQ)

84 That G E commercial bothers me.>>

The one where the mother lies to the little girl about what her job is?

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 01:41 PM (TI3xG)

85 That HuffPo piece was pathetic. It didn't attack the evidence at all, just more smears. Jesus. I'm dumber for having read it.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 08, 2014 01:41 PM (ZPrif)

86 The agony of defeat.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 01:42 PM (ZshNr)

87 Don't give a shit about any of it.

Posted by: eman at February 08, 2014 01:42 PM (AO9UG)

88 When does javelin catching start?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 01:42 PM (6bMeY)

89 Thanks NDH (and Gabe) for that delicious Chicago is out clip. I needed the pick-me-up. I was enjoying watching the opening ceremonies, but Bob Cost is ruining everything. I can't stand his voice let alone the sight of his stupid face. And all the gay pimping. Sigh. The MFM. They own everything. Even the Olympics. Putin looked like a boss. I doubt we could have pulled off an Olympics opening ceremony like he did. We can't even keep the lights on in the Superdome for the Superbowl half time show.

Posted by: L, elle at February 08, 2014 01:43 PM (Cuj/g)

90 I can't stand Costas. Douchebags use him to douche.
No. We use Costas when we anal bleach.

Posted by: a douchebag at February 08, 2014 01:43 PM (LLfr9)

91 40 Irina Rodnina was one of the finest figure skaters ( pairs) to take the ice... choosing her may well have been intended as an insult, but she may have just been chosen because of her contribution to the sport. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 05:21 PM (Z6IPg) -------------------------- Yep. She won the gold medal 3 Olympics in a row. Very big achievement---- just like the hockey player who accompanied her, who won 3 golds too. I'm sure that the Obama pic had nothing at all to do with it.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 08, 2014 01:43 PM (dfYL9)

92 Hickster - ya Plus, why do they have to make it her mom instead of her dad? And the little girl looks lonely .

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 01:43 PM (P6QsQ)

93 ANNOUNCER: Notice the well-defined shoulders and upper arms on the Russian curdlist, Svetlana Ivanatwerkov as she churns the fresh milk into a rich, textured glob of cottage cheese. She finished fifth at last year's world championships, but is widely expected to win the Gold Medal here in Sochi.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 01:44 PM (DdpDU)

94 100 yards in the air, that must be fun.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 01:44 PM (ZshNr)

95 Now there's some added excitement: slooooow motion of a ski jumper in flight. /sarc off

Posted by: Smilin' Jack at February 08, 2014 01:44 PM (Xzj0B)

96 Historically, dwarf bowling enjoyed a huge surge of popularity when The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939.

Posted by: The Guy Who Digs Dwarf Bowling at February 08, 2014 01:44 PM (8ZskC)

97 Love the CNN freakout on Chicago. New to me. Real professional of 'em.

Posted by: m at February 08, 2014 01:44 PM (omrQI)

98 Bob Costas has not been on all day, and I have been watching it for eight hours.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 01:44 PM (P6QsQ)

99 My fiancee wanted to watch the opening ceremony. She's a cross-country skier and likes to watch that (I joke that the two of us could make a good biathlete baby). So I figure what the hell, it can't be too bad right? When it got to the part with the soviet stars on tractors and then the hammer and sickle flying through the air I said, "They are celebrating a dead regime that killed over 30 million people. I can't watch this, it makes me physically ill." She said, "Yeah, this is terrible." And that was the end of that.

Posted by: DanInMN at February 08, 2014 01:45 PM (Z0Wdv)

100 As a resident of Chicago, I'm glad we didn't get the 2016 Olympics! Suck on that, corrupt-mayor Daley! Oh yeah, you already did...!

Posted by: Jon Dougery at February 08, 2014 01:45 PM (FYvb/)

101 Why did we bother to send anybody to Sochi if FBI and CIA agents will be refused service?

Vlad, hello? Ivan, what's up?

News Flash: ALL Americans are spies, comrades!

Posted by: Fritz at February 08, 2014 01:45 PM (TKFmG)

102 Yo, NDH, I have something I need to send you. Can you email me? my nic (minus the hulk part) at gmail

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 08, 2014 01:45 PM (GEICT)

103 For the Luge, they should use a cheese wheel instead.

Posted by: YIKES! at February 08, 2014 01:46 PM (mETGQ)

104 98 Bob Costas has not been on all day, and I have been watching it for eight hours.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 05:44 PM (P6QsQ)

He'll be there on Primetime. With his 20 minutes of personal stories to 10 minutes of actual event coverage.

Posted by: buzzion at February 08, 2014 01:46 PM (LI48c)

105 OMG!!! Chicago is out!!! OMG!!!

Posted by: Titanium at February 08, 2014 01:47 PM (IgOQg)

106 The HuffPo piece mainly just didn't like the tone Woody Allen used while defending himself against one of the most horrendous of charges. How dare he be indignant and defensive and argue for his innocence! Woody Allen is a left-wing dirtbag, but the evidence doesn't support the accusation.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at February 08, 2014 01:47 PM (ZPrif)

107 There must be an antibiotic resistant fatal strain of pinkeye.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 01:47 PM (6bMeY)

108 Did you see the luger who wiped out and recovered? Attempt at link in name.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 01:48 PM (ZshNr)

109 Buzzion , ya he only comes on in prime time, for limited segments. No need to miss the whole thing just because the little fly buzzes around here and there for a few minutes. I just go to the bathroom when he flies by.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 01:48 PM (P6QsQ)

110 Do they have luge jump?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 01:48 PM (6bMeY)

111 I am huge fan of winter olympics and winter sports but I have to say nearly all the winter olympics sports are useless. ski jumping, luge, bobsled, downhill skiing, and of course curling, there is essentially no usefulness in any of 'em. biathalon is useful but everyone knows cross country skiing is a stand in for waterboarding when the temperature is below 32 degrees.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 05:28 PM (rDidD)

Curling is useful. It provides the participants with an opportunity to drink alcohol. 100% Moron lifestyle approved.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2014 01:49 PM (pFqpP)

112 Canada has a traditional sport that is considered distantly related to dwarf bowling. It involves hitting Eskimos with mallets.

Posted by: The Guy Who Digs Dwarf Bowling at February 08, 2014 01:49 PM (8ZskC)

113 Imagine if Chicago had won the bid for the Olympics, the union skimming would have been worse than Sochi. I love that video, "Chicago is out? Chicago is out???!!"

Posted by: Seems legit at February 08, 2014 01:49 PM (A98Xu)

114 Bob Costas is an anti-gun fruit loop.

Posted by: Jango Unchained at February 08, 2014 01:49 PM (0Knjk)

115 Did you see the luger who wiped out and recovered? Attempt at link in name. **** Wow! He didn't "roll back" on to that, he was scooped up by a runaway luge.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 01:50 PM (DmNpO)

116 Do they have luge jump? *** I'd watch that

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 01:50 PM (DmNpO)

117 There is nothing wrong with Russia that a good 5 Year Plan won't fix. Da, comrade?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 08, 2014 01:50 PM (aDwsi)

118 I want to see Chevy Chase at the top of the luge run with the can of non-stick cooking spray and a metal disk sled.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 01:51 PM (VezYS)

119 I was promised loads of firm female buttocks stuffed into tight sports suits. I saw some of that early today but it's been a sausage fest for hours.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 08, 2014 01:51 PM (oFCZn)

120 These damn ski jumpers keep landing on their feet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 01:51 PM (6bMeY)

121 114 Bob Costas is an anti-gun fruit loop. =========== Ya, well, I refuse to let him interfere with my day, or my enjoyment of sports.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 01:51 PM (P6QsQ)

122 #50 RICKL
I don't know if you can access it but the CBC's online coverage is here...
olympics.cbc.ca/online-listing/index.html

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 08, 2014 01:52 PM (LLfr9)

123 So I guess a Luge rider is called a Loogie.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 08, 2014 01:52 PM (mETGQ)

124 108 Did you see the luger who wiped out and recovered? Attempt at link in name.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 05:48 PM (ZshNr)

I wonder how they practice luging in India.

Posted by: Titanium at February 08, 2014 01:52 PM (IgOQg)

125
I wonder how they practice luging in India.

Posted by: Titanium at February 08, 2014 05:52 PM (IgOQg)

Nepal border.

Posted by: buzzion at February 08, 2014 01:53 PM (LI48c)

126 I wonder if luge or slalom could be adopted to public transportation?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 01:53 PM (6bMeY)

127 Link to the GE commercial where the mother lies to the little girl about what her job is?

Posted by: m at February 08, 2014 01:54 PM (omrQI)

128 Is 'luge' pronounced with a hard 'g' sound, two syllables and a long 'e'? If not, I've been doing it wrong.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 01:54 PM (ssfj1)

129 >>I wonder how they practice luging in India. There are ski mountains in India. Really.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 01:55 PM (g1DWB)

130 I wonder how they practice luging in India.>>

In the Himalayas.

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 01:55 PM (TI3xG)

131 @127 m YouTube has it. It's called Childlike Imagination, what my mom does at GE.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 01:56 PM (P6QsQ)

132 That G E commercial bothers me.>>
The one where the mother lies to the little girl about what her job is?
She tells the kid she's a hooker rather than admit she's an Obamacare Navigator???

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 08, 2014 01:56 PM (LLfr9)

133 Crap. Joe Biden just beat me to a snot joke. My mother would be so ashamed.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 01:56 PM (ssfj1)

134 Me killing those girls was a Pivotal Event in their lives

Posted by: Ted Bundy, porn addict at February 08, 2014 01:57 PM (omBWL)

135 >>>I wonder how they practice luging in India.<<<

Dude, explanation at the link: "Earlier this year, footage of his training regimen Â– which includes using a Himalayan highway as a training track Â– gained attention online."

This guy earns +15 maniac points automatically.

Posted by: Fritz at February 08, 2014 01:57 PM (TKFmG)

136 These damn ski jumpers keep landing on their feet. Posted by: Boss Moss ------------ Nothing like The Agony of Defeat to perk up the show.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 08, 2014 01:57 PM (aDwsi)

137 Seems those Scandi snowbunnies took the Biathlon. Even that RUS guy gave it a good go...

How about a Real-Life Olympics, say, in Detroit? I suggest several real-life events - Survive the night on 5th Avenue, Car-jacking, B&E defense, and the favorite, Timed Drive-by... and they can use COTS hardware, straight from the shelf or as claimed SWAG...

Seems like it would be a win-win for the city - promoting its current strengths, the win-fall of spectators and their spending, and cleaning up its 'trouble-spots'.

Posted by: fred zeppelin at February 08, 2014 01:57 PM (YuUoQ)

138 @118...that would be a "non-nutritive cereal varnish" which you coat your saucer sled with.

Posted by: Brian in BC at February 08, 2014 01:59 PM (3lxx0)

139 138- yeah that's the ticket!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 02:00 PM (VH4DF)

140 134 Me killing those girls was a Pivotal Event in their lives Posted by: Ted Bundy, porn addict at February 08, 2014 05:57 PM (omBWL) My life was filled with Pivotal Events. You've probably read about them.

Posted by: Adolf Hitler at February 08, 2014 02:00 PM (oFCZn)

141 How about a Real-Life Olympics, say, in Detroit?>>

In the Detroit Biathlon the rifles will be replaced with pistols shot Gangster style.

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 02:01 PM (TI3xG)

142 YouTube has it. It's called Childlike Imagination, what my mom does at GE. Thanks. Yes, it's pretty bad; pretty boring. Also not very clearly spoken.

Posted by: m at February 08, 2014 02:01 PM (omrQI)

143 (pron.) lewje

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 08, 2014 02:01 PM (LLfr9)

144 Is 'luge' pronounced with a hard 'g' sound, two syllables and a long 'e'? If not, I've been doing it wrong. Posted by: Seamus ---------------- You've got it right.

Posted by: "I'm hit!" - Kramer at February 08, 2014 02:01 PM (aDwsi)

145 You can tell me all that you want that luge is a dangerous sport, but when all I see is a guy lying on his back for a few minutes, I just can't take it seriously.

Posted by: AmishDude at February 08, 2014 02:02 PM (xSegX)

146 How about a Real-Life Olympics, say, in Detroit? I suggest several real-life events - Survive the night on 5th Avenue, Car-jacking, BE defense, and the favorite, Timed Drive-by... and they can use COTS hardware, straight from the shelf or as claimed SWAG...

Seems like it would be a win-win for the city - promoting its current strengths, the win-fall of spectators and their spending, and cleaning up its 'trouble-spots'.

Posted by: fred zeppelin at February 08, 2014 05:57 PM (YuUoQ)

-----

I like this idea. I like it very much. May I suggest adding successfully starting a business to the events? Bonus points if you can do it without paying any bribes to the local government fiefdoms.

Posted by: Dave S. at February 08, 2014 02:02 PM (UvR6d)

147 Watched the live coverage, if you can get it CBC has multiple channels showing it live plus on-line coverage of every event live...must say it, their web coverage is absolutely fantastic...you can pull-up the athletes, standings, run order etc. as a window beside the action.

Posted by: Brian in BC at February 08, 2014 02:02 PM (3lxx0)

148 After a particularly tough luge training run in the Himalayas you probably would wanna yak.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 02:02 PM (VH4DF)

149 Uh, the article you need to reference for the Woody Allen crap is the newest Vanity Fair. http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/02/woody-allen-sex-abuse-10-facts which also includes a PDF of the judges decision, where he found Allen's behaviour towards Dylan to be Â“grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her.Â”

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:03 PM (Z6IPg)

150 ...their web coverage is absolutely fantastic
That's because we're paying for it, Brian in BC!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 08, 2014 02:04 PM (LLfr9)

151 http://tinyurl.com/mcdt4j9 #9 or #8 would make me watch

Posted by: The Hobo Hooker Waitress Model Actress Wears Prada at February 08, 2014 02:04 PM (GeVLX)

152 I was on the cross country ski team in HS. 32 degrees was to hot and 10 degrees was about perfect. Though back then there was none of that ski skating crap. Posted by: The Hickster at February my experience with cross country skiing is similar. I have done a fair amount of it and it always seemed like work, I was never sure why anyone did it instead of downhill. some cute girls were on the ccskiteam. snowshoeing is quite a bit more fun. cc skiing without a trail is real work.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:04 PM (rDidD)

153 15 maniac points is equal to -0.75 seconds, or 1 liter bottle of Jack Daniels.

Posted by: Fritz at February 08, 2014 02:04 PM (TKFmG)

154 Funniest part so far was the American figure skater who was given first place for her performance...10 points higher than any earlier competitor and she very clearly declares "that's bullshit" and proceeds to pout, apply fake smile, wave, pout, lather rinse repeat. Seriously honey, your attitude sucks.

Posted by: Brian in BC at February 08, 2014 02:05 PM (3lxx0)

155 I wonder if Tony Hawk ever did a luge.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 02:05 PM (VH4DF)

156 bobsledding needs some nascar in it to make it interesting. maybe some sort of x games version, several sleds going down the track simultaneously.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:05 PM (rDidD)

157 NBC really sucks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 02:05 PM (6bMeY)

158 Saw the third and final downhill skiing training run highlights earlier today. It's on a great hill, surprisingly great course. Bode Miller was rocketing down the course. Very technical top section is where he'll likely win the race tomorrow. The other skiers can't match his courage and technique up there. He gets up to 70mph very quickly after plunging out of the starter shack. They showed a wipe out of note on one of the three big jumps. Dude bloodied his face when he hit head first and didn't stop wiping out for quite a while. One of the jumps finds the skiers going 80 to 100 yards in the air. Be sure to watch tomorrow for the real thing.

Posted by: Ski mania at February 08, 2014 02:06 PM (5Q1ZU)

159 @150 ...their web coverage is absolutely fantastic That's because we're paying for it, Brian in BC! Oh, I know it and am royally pissed about it...but for once, for once...the end product is surprisingly good...way better than the TV coverage. Since we're paying for it, I'm glad it's actually decent.

Posted by: Brian in BC at February 08, 2014 02:07 PM (3lxx0)

160 Slow around here.

Posted by: m at February 08, 2014 02:07 PM (omrQI)

161 122 #50 RICKL I don't know if you can access it but the CBC's online coverage is here... olympics.cbc.ca/online-listing/index.html Posted by: andycanuck at February 08, 2014 05:52 PM (LLfr9) Thanks, but I got a message that "this video is not available in your territory". I had read earlier that CBC and BBC web coverage is blocked in the United States. Well. I can remember when this used to be a free country, but now I'm getting a taste of what life was like behind the Iron Curtain. Nothing can be allowed to interfere with the MSM's narrative.

Posted by: rickl at February 08, 2014 02:07 PM (sdi6R)

162 You can tell me all that you want that luge is a dangerous sport, but when all I see is a guy lying on his back for a few minutes, I just can't take it seriously.

They had a guy die during the last Winter Olympics during a practice run.

Posted by: no good deed at February 08, 2014 02:07 PM (vBhbc)

163 One of the jumps finds the skiers going 80 to 100 yards in the air. Be sure to watch tomorrow for the real thing. Posted by: Ski mania at February 08, 2014 06:06 100 yards in a down hill event, a football field's length? that sounds a little much.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:08 PM (rDidD)

164 Corporate Fascism.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 02:09 PM (6bMeY)

165 You can tell me all that you want that luge is a dangerous sport, but when all I see is a guy lying on his back for a few minutes, I just can't take it seriously. Posted by: AmishDude at February 08, 2014 06:02 PM (xSegX) Good thing they don't men's Luge pair.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 08, 2014 02:09 PM (mETGQ)

166 Good, a break in the Olympics just in time to let me watch Duke vs. BC on ESPN. I'm a fan of both teams, but really only care about the chances of the Celtics drafting Jabari Parker.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 02:09 PM (ZshNr)

167 Hey, lovemonkeys!!! I actually watched teh opening ceremonies until about 10:30 PST, when they started speechifying and I decided to take my sorry ass to bed. I though it was quite good and very entertaining and good for them! I liked it a lot.

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:10 PM (8lmkt)

168 Seriously honey, your attitude sucks. Posted by: Brian in BC at February 08, 2014 06:05 PM (3lxx0) Agreed. Thought that was incredibly tacky. I appreciate she's a tough competitor, but she came off as churlish beyond belief.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:10 PM (Z6IPg)

169 bobsled and luger are dangerous but who cares, where are you going to use your luge and bobsled skills besides a special track? olympic tobogganing would be more useful.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:10 PM (rDidD)

170 On the Woody Allen story: I'd like to find a way to block all news about it from my computer. Rehashing it is just painful, for us and for them, and it's had its day in court.

Posted by: m at February 08, 2014 02:10 PM (omrQI)

171 MissTammy!

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:10 PM (rDidD)

172 have

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 08, 2014 02:10 PM (mETGQ)

173 Tammy? OMG . . . shmooshes!!!!!

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:11 PM (8lmkt)

174 Good thing they don't men's Luge pair. Actually, they do...

Posted by: Brian in BC at February 08, 2014 02:11 PM (3lxx0)

175 Is the 100 years the horizontal distance or the hypotenuse?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 02:11 PM (3C2Zh)

176 Peaches!

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:11 PM (rDidD)

177 USA vs Finland, hockey, on NBC Sports network now.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 02:11 PM (P6QsQ)

178 Well that was quick. Team USA scores goal less than one minute in.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 02:13 PM (P6QsQ)

179 150 ...their web coverage is absolutely fantastic
That's because we're paying for it, Brian in BC!

Posted by: andycanuck at February 08, 2014 06:04 PM (LLfr9)

We probably pay for

The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion

as well

Posted by: Shannow at February 08, 2014 02:13 PM (SuF6A)

180 Y5!!!! {waves wildly}

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:13 PM (8lmkt)

181 bob costas slobbering over putin makes the press interviews of saddam hussein look dignified.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:14 PM (rDidD)

182 My favourite Slopestyle snowboard move is the frontside fakie face plant...I've got it NAILED!

Posted by: Brian in BC at February 08, 2014 02:14 PM (3lxx0)

183 Years = yards

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 02:14 PM (qQduE)

184 It's true about the 80-100 yards in the downhill, watched some of it this afternoon. The course is "Extreme", as the kids used to say.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 02:14 PM (ZshNr)

185 I thought Russia banned homosexuals from the Olympics...yet they have this event called the Bi-athlon...so if you swing both ways its ok...so confused.

Posted by: Brian in BC at February 08, 2014 02:15 PM (3lxx0)

186 well I am calling bs on the 80 to 100 yards in a downhill race jump. besides you have to remember the russian ruler is shorter than the American ruler. I mean how tall is putin anyway 5'6"?

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:16 PM (rDidD)

187 Now they could combine the ski jump with the biathlon. "Pull!"

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 02:17 PM (qQduE)

188 so who is socking MissTammy?

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:17 PM (rDidD)

189 Would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall yesterday when the athletes lined-up to go into the stadium...with Israel immediately preceding Iran.

Posted by: Brian in BC at February 08, 2014 02:17 PM (3lxx0)

190 How about a Real-Life Olympics, say, in Detroit?>> In the Detroit Biathlon the rifles will be replaced with pistols shot Gangster style. Posted by: The Hickster ----------------- heh. Found the National Lampoon issue from November Nov. of 1973. Sadly, without the color cartoons demonstrating each even, they were damned hilarious. At any rate, here is the text : --------------- by Rick Meyer owitz and Gerald Sussman The XXI Olympiad in Montreal will include for the first time five new national sports. Together they represent an important contribution to the richness and variety of athletic competition and to the Olympic spirit of international brotherhood and goodwill- Giraffe RodeoÂ— Patterned after American rodeo, but using the specially-bred Nigerian Kaduna giraffe, the meanest rodeo animal in the world. Swedish SuicidingÂ— In Sweden suicide is more than just a sport, it's a way of life. Winners judged on speed, originality, and grace under pressure* Dutch Cheese Ball Â— Two teams try to push a two thousand pound ball of Gouda across a finish line. If they gain a foot they can cut a piece off the cheese to lighten it, while the other team puts a man in the penalty box. Turkish Towel Snapping Â— The second national sport of Turkey, A stirring combination of gymnastics and ballet, with marks for degree of difficulty and cruelty. Latvian Running Amok Â— The most dangerous sport in the world ... for spectators. Latvians are famous for their speed, strength, and homicidal tendencies They simply run into the stands and wreak havoc until police arrive.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 08, 2014 02:17 PM (aDwsi)

191 The course is "Extreme"

I think all the courses are very hard-pack and icy. Not a fun combo, very very hard to keep an edge on that shit (don't ask me how I know!). Sounds even more dangerous than the hotel plumbing, you ask me.

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:17 PM (8lmkt)

192 Tell me about it, rickl, we can't access Hula [sp?] and similar American sites from "our territory" either but the biggest abuse of power/hijacking on the internet is that Canadian ISPs are blocked from seeing any Comedy Central material (now including South Park stuff since South Park sold out) by Canada's shitty version of Comedy Central---Comedy. We can't even go to Comedy Central's web site without it getting hijacked to the Comedy site. One of the moronettes works for a Canadian company in the States but their internet connection must be through a Canadian firm because she got hijacked to the Canadian site when she tried going to Comedy Central too when I told her about it. (Ace had a funny video up, maybe a South Park one, and she was complaining that she was blocked from seeing the video on her work computer being told she had to go to the Comedy web site to view any South Park [?] videos.)

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 08, 2014 02:18 PM (LLfr9)

193 Does anyone know how many black athletes from our country are at the Olympics and whether they talked to President Obama before they left on how to fair to other black people from other counties around the world?

Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at February 08, 2014 02:18 PM (O6kI3)

194 USA vs Finland, hockey, on NBC Sports network now. Wymynz.

Posted by: garrett at February 08, 2014 02:19 PM (HvQUH)

195

I like that Emrick is calling the women's hockey game. I like that the US girls are dominating the Finns too.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2014 02:19 PM (WCi6Q)

196 I think all the courses are very hard-pack and icy. Not a fun combo, very very hard to keep an edge on that shit (don't ask me how I know!). Sounds even more dangerous than the hotel plumbing, you ask me. Posted by: Peaches sounds as if you have skied east of the mississippi.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:19 PM (rDidD)

197 188 so who is socking MissTammy?

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 06:17 PM (rDidD)

Nobody would sock the Tamster. At least, not someone who hoped to live long. {loads the Ruger, checks the knives, glances at the louisville slugger by the front door . . .}

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:20 PM (8lmkt)

198 bob costas slobbering over putin makes the press interviews of saddam hussein look dignified.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 06:14 PM (rDidD)

Could be that Bob wants to live long enough to leave Russia.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Scurrilous Rumors - Get Yours Today at the Outrage Outlet at February 08, 2014 02:20 PM (gmoEG)

199 Boy that Finnish goalie is really pale.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 02:20 PM (P6QsQ)

200 Check out this article about what Bode Miller said after today's training run. http://tinyurl.com/knxchlf KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia Â– Two days after stating that consequences ultimately define downhill skiing, U.S. skier Bode Miller warned that Sochi's brutal downhill course has the potential to kill in these Games. Saturday's course had a harder pack and icier conditions than in previous runs Â– a wicked combination that led 10 racers to crash and 19 others to completely skip their final practice opportunity. Slovenian racer Rok Perko took a particularly explosive tumble, leaving shaken and with a bloody nose. But in typical swashbuckling style, Miller attacked the course rather than dialing back, and finished with the fastest downhill run for the second time in three days. But Miller wasn't in celebration at the end of the run. If anything, he was wide-eyed after watching so many crashes, including a near disaster by teammate Marco Sullivan that was averted at the last moment. *** At one point, Sullivan wobbled after a jump and careened toward a lightly barricaded safety fence, saving himself at the last moment by steering off course and abandoning his run. "He almost killed himself," Miller told reporters. "If that crash doesn't go just the way it went, he goes flying through B [safety] nets going 75 [miles per hour] and straight into the trees. "I was going to go easier but seeing those first couple of guys crashing, I decided not to do that. It is so damn fast and the snow is so hard that you don't want to sacrifice edge pressure and grip on the snow for aerodynamics. Â…If you are not totally focused, this course can kill you. It is one of those courses where I don't think you are safe going easy."

Posted by: Ski mania at February 08, 2014 02:20 PM (5Q1ZU)

201 Stream for hockey.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 02:20 PM (6bMeY)

202 Now they could combine the ski jump with the biathlon. "Pull!" Posted by: Seamus --------------- I figure the biathlon would perk up a *lot* if were more like Survivor Biathlon, i.e. a free-for-all survivor wins. I have suggested arming NASCAR drivers with shotguns also. In both cases, more interesting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 08, 2014 02:21 PM (aDwsi)

203 We probably pay for The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion as well
Through the ass for that one, I'm sure, Shannow!

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 08, 2014 02:21 PM (LLfr9)

204 Has anyone been able to determine if Costas is using a booster seat?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 08, 2014 02:21 PM (IU0O7)

205 Watching the figure skaters perform the "Iron Lotus" never gets old.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Scurrilous Rumors - Get Yours Today at the Outrage Outlet at February 08, 2014 02:21 PM (gmoEG)

206 Nobody would sock the Tamster. At least, not someone who hoped to live long. {loads the Ruger, checks the knives, glances at the louisville slugger by the front door . . .} Posted by: Peaches has to be a sock. no way MissTammy shows up and ingnores you and me. maybe me but never you. It is like one of those movies where you have identical doubles and one is evil. you can tell this one is a sock because it is ignoring us.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:21 PM (rDidD)

207 Could be that Bob wants to live long enough to leave Russia. Posted by: Mikey NTH ---------------- Perhaps the pink eye was just a warning.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 08, 2014 02:22 PM (aDwsi)

208 I once watched an international downhill race live at Grindelwald in Switzerland. We were just there to ski, didn't have to buy a special ticket or anything. It was terrifying being on the slope side as they whizzed towards/by us. You could see their skis chittering and skipping over the icy spots, I was pondering whether if one the racers somehow lost it, would his skis decapitate me before I could duck?

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 02:22 PM (ZshNr)

209 Posted by: Ski mania at February 08, 2014 06:20 PM (5Q1ZU)

that's what I'm talkin' about and we all need to pray for their well-being. the conditions are really bad on the slopes. why do you think Shaun White pulled out of that one event? because he didn't want to die . . .

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:22 PM (8lmkt)

210 Peaches! Yankeefifth!!! MWAH!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:23 PM (Z6IPg)

211 Watching the figure skaters perform the "Iron Lotus" never gets old. C'mon. What are you talking about? Look, after all these years, I know what went wrong. The physics were off; it was a man and a woman. That's why it didn't work. You're two men... you should be fine.

Posted by: Coach [/i][/s][/u][/b] at February 08, 2014 02:23 PM (yz6yg)

212 I'm Popeye the sailor man.

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 08, 2014 02:24 PM (6bMeY)

213 Would using a proxy server enable one to evade the restrictions on certain websites?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2014 02:24 PM (pFqpP)

214 how is it even possible that there is not at least one eskimo on the podium for every event in the winter olympics?

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:24 PM (rDidD)

215 Peaches! Yankeefifth!!! MWAH!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 06:23 PM (Z6IPg)

C'mere, ya little Southern Belle, you need a hug!!!! {{{{{{{ }}}}}}

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:24 PM (8lmkt)

216 I think the US hockey team coach is racist because there are not any blacks on the team.

Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at February 08, 2014 02:24 PM (O6kI3)

217 Peaches! Yankeefifth!!! MWAH! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 06 I am not buying it yet.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 02:25 PM (rDidD)

218 I think the US hockey team coach is racist because there are not any blacks on the team. I think blacks are racist because they won't play hockey

Posted by: Coach [/i][/s][/u][/b] at February 08, 2014 02:25 PM (yz6yg)

219 how is it even possible that there is not at least one eskimo on the podium for every event in the winter olympics?

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 06:24 PM (rDidD)

it's a funding issue. and, shut up!

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:25 PM (8lmkt)

220 Just finished watching the W.Coast feed of the Women's X-Country combined. Never ceases to amaze me how much female athletes cry. Winners, losers, whatever. They're always sobbing.

Posted by: garrett at February 08, 2014 02:26 PM (HvQUH)

221 These damn ski jumpers keep landing on their feet. That means the biathlon course is too far away.

Posted by: t-bird at February 08, 2014 02:26 PM (FcR7P)

222 I am in and out here, got laundry in and soup to keep an eye on. They better HOPE that's just pink eye on Costas and not some freaking EKC.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:26 PM (Z6IPg)

223 Tara Lipinsky is looking pretty hot these days, but that broad she was announcing with is kind of a pig.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at February 08, 2014 02:26 PM (zxrQh)

224 how is it even possible that there is not at least one eskimo on the podium for every event in the winter olympics? Who do you think BUILT the podium?

Posted by: Brian in BC at February 08, 2014 02:26 PM (3lxx0)

225 I hereby christen Bob Costas PLP Preachy Little Prick PLP

Posted by: seamrog at February 08, 2014 02:27 PM (FLsGV)

226 Love you, Tammy . . . miss you madly and hope all is well. You are never far from my thoughts.

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:28 PM (8lmkt)

227 Bob "Pop-eye" Costas is a national treasure!

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 02:28 PM (ZshNr)

228 I do need a hug, thank you missy! But put Fluffy way first, please! LP garrett, surely you have noticed most chicks are kinda weepy??? I was weepy all through the dang Opening Ceremonies! When do catchers and pitchers report this year?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:28 PM (Z6IPg)

229 I love watching these women play hockey. My four year old granddaughter is learning to skate so she can play hockey with the kids in her neighborhood. She currently weighs 32 pounds. I think she's going to require extra padding.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 02:28 PM (P6QsQ)

230
Oh dear, I sure hope Bob Costas isn't in constant searing pain from that eye infection, as if the back of his eyeball was being rolled across a sandy beach of ground glass.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 08, 2014 02:28 PM (kdS6q)

231 I think blacks are racist because they won't play hockey

Posted by: Coach at February 08, 2014 06:25 PM (yz6yg)

You might be right, but probably not.

Posted by: Jarome Iginla at February 08, 2014 02:28 PM (pFqpP)

232

Seriously NBC...you don't have a plan B for for Costas? We have to look at that pustulent eye again tonight?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2014 02:28 PM (eb70/)

233 Love you, Tammy . . . miss you madly and hope all is well. You are never far from my thoughts. Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 06:28 PM (8lmkt) Speaking of weepy.... you are the best, sweet lady!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:29 PM (Z6IPg)

234 Bobby Costas doesn't get that eye thing cleared up he'll come out looking like Gus Fring after the bomb went off at the nursing home.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 08, 2014 02:29 PM (oFCZn)

235 When do catchers and pitchers report this year? Sounds like a question Reggie Love would ask. Jus' sayin'

Posted by: Sean Bannion [/i][/s][/u][/b] at February 08, 2014 02:29 PM (yz6yg)

236 When do catchers and pitchers report this year? #TwoWeeks

Posted by: garrett at February 08, 2014 02:30 PM (HvQUH)

237 >>how is it even possible that there is not at least one eskimo on the podium for every event in the winter olympics? Canadian, Eskimo, what's the difference?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 02:30 PM (g1DWB)

238 When do catchers and pitchers report this year?

The good ones never do . . .

Posted by: Reggie L at February 08, 2014 02:31 PM (8lmkt)

239 Seriously NBC...you don't have a plan B for for Costas? We have to look at that pustulent eye again tonight?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2014 06:28 PM (eb70/)

Can't he just put a black patch on it, and practice saying, "Arrrgh!" ?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2014 02:31 PM (pFqpP)

240 Very soon for pitchers and catchers. Maybe even Monday.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 08, 2014 02:31 PM (ZshNr)

241 Pitchers and catchers report on the 13th.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 02:31 PM (P6QsQ)

242 NBC praises Communism in my sock.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 08, 2014 02:31 PM (LLfr9)

243 Well, since Wyatt brought it up..... Johnny Weir. I just.... I really just don't.... Now mind you, his commentary is awesome. But he's the exact type of person who makes me wonder why transgenders go through surgery. I mean, there he is, just as delicate and fine as he cares to be, and he didn't feel the need to have his weenis cut off or anything.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:31 PM (Z6IPg)

244 Dick Button, I miss you

Posted by: thunderb at February 08, 2014 02:32 PM (bdEjC)

245 Canadian, Eskimo, what's the difference?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 06:30 PM (g1DWB)

GST

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:32 PM (8lmkt)

246 Posted by: Ski mania at February 08, 2014 06:20 PM (5Q1ZU) *** We were chatting here yesterday about the dangers. Shaun White baled on on f the competitions rather than chance injury and be unable to compete in the Half Pipe. A female skier injured her knees after coming down hard due to extended hang-time off a ramp. From what I've read, the fault lies not so much with the facilities themselves as much as with the failure of the IOC to properly test the facilities which usually would allow for modifications prior to the start of the games. As one skier put it, they are basically using the Olympians as crash test dummies.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 02:32 PM (DmNpO)

247 Just two weeks...awesome! Thanks Garrett. ( No thanks to you other nasty minded Moromns!

)

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:33 PM (Z6IPg)

248 Bob's eye issue reminds me of the time Tony LaRussa had shingles. Living in St. Louis, and being a Cardinal fan, it was very difficult to watch on TV there for a bit. It was just too hideous.

I'm going to link this below, but I would strongly encourage you to NOT click on the link. Again, it is my opinion that you NOT click on the link below to look at Tony LaRussa's face...

http://tinyurl.com/3q3gdq3

Posted by: Dave S. at February 08, 2014 02:34 PM (UvR6d)

249 okay, but what about Bruce Jenner? he is srsly givin' me the shivers lately

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:34 PM (8lmkt)

250 He wants to be the next Kardashian porno queen

Posted by: thunderb at February 08, 2014 02:35 PM (bdEjC)

251 Oh don't kid yourself, Dick Button might have braided his hair had he had any, and probably had a discreet dab of lipstick on. I hate to say it but I don't think Shawn White bailed because of safety issues. They fixed what he was complaining about.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:35 PM (Z6IPg)

252 Oh and.... mmmmmm Bode Miller

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 02:35 PM (DmNpO)

253 okay, but what about Bruce Jenner? he is srsly givin' me the shivers lately *** He's no longer Mr. All-American that's for sure.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 02:36 PM (DmNpO)

254 I don't care what Button did, or who, he was just really good

Posted by: thunderb at February 08, 2014 02:36 PM (bdEjC)

255 Should these chicks be playing hockey in bikinis?
Or are they as attractive as women basketball players?

Posted by: Richard Gozinya at February 08, 2014 02:36 PM (KkQGg)

256 Bruce is goin' through with the surgery, right? Damned if I'd take those risks, just go on and be prissy or whatever. Tuck that shit up, no need to cut it off. I had shingles from my waist all the way down to my ankle on the back of my left leg. Made it in the medical journals and everything.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:37 PM (Z6IPg)

257 Oh and.... mmmmmm

Bode Miller

oh, yeah . . . preach it!!!

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:37 PM (8lmkt)

258 Attractive on the main

Posted by: thunderb at February 08, 2014 02:38 PM (bdEjC)

259
Better Costas have a pus filled eye that me with a pussy vag.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 08, 2014 02:38 PM (nQjHM)

260 Dick Button was great when he was drunk. I remember once he said he wanted to spank Nichole Bobeck. Peggy Fleming was speechless.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at February 08, 2014 02:38 PM (zxrQh)

261 Bruce is goin' through with the surgery, right? Damned if I'd take those risks, just go on and be prissy or whatever. Tuck that shit up, no need to cut it off.

He's had his adam's apple shaved, he's doing glam nails and he's growing his hair into an old gal bob. it's really a major facepalm!

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:38 PM (8lmkt)

262 I'm watching to see if I can catch a Finn smiling. So far nothing.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 02:39 PM (P6QsQ)

263 Oh, Dick was really good, that's for sure. I think Johnny is doing great, too, though. I could never stand watching him skate, because he is just too.... but for some reason, I have really enjoyed his commentary.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:39 PM (Z6IPg)

264 Moobs, he has em

Posted by: thunderb at February 08, 2014 02:39 PM (bdEjC)

265 On cbs we have the pretentious poor. WTF

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 02:40 PM (TI3xG)

266 I like Johnny Weir. He was an epic skater and, you know, he can do whatever he wants. I got no problem with him.

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:40 PM (8lmkt)

267 Fins at my university drank. A lot

Posted by: thunderb at February 08, 2014 02:40 PM (bdEjC)

268 Bodie Miller could spank me if he wanted to.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:40 PM (Z6IPg)

269
Bruce is growing a big ass to compete with me.

Posted by: Kim Kardashian at February 08, 2014 02:40 PM (nQjHM)

270 Bodie Miller could spank me if he wanted to.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 06:40 PM (Z6IPg)

Posted by: Tim Tebow & Clay Matthews at February 08, 2014 02:41 PM (8lmkt)

271 Is NASCAR still helping with designing the bobsleds?

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at February 08, 2014 02:42 PM (b6koZ)

272 Morely Safer did a 60 minutes years ago on the Finnish national character . Everyone was either completely deadpan or completely serious and it was the funniest thing 60 minutes ever did .

Posted by: awkward davies at February 08, 2014 02:42 PM (WK8VM)

273 Costas needs a new hairpiece.

Posted by: Jango Unchained at February 08, 2014 02:42 PM (0Knjk)

274 They talk about this fighting in the middle east like I'm supposed to give a shit.

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 08, 2014 02:42 PM (6bMeY)

275 Thunderb, I don't miss that curmudgeon at all. He never had anything good to say about any skater he didn't like. Its not like figure skating isn't political as hell anyway. I have to admit I enjoyed listening to Tara Lipinski today too. And she is easy on the eyes.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 08, 2014 02:43 PM (j2X6g)

276 Glamourpusses they are not, and that's perfectly fine. http://bit.ly/1ev0bJt

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 02:43 PM (DmNpO)

277 I like the NDH used the word "incredible".
That is the way it is supposed to be used. It means, having no creds.

Posted by: navybrat at February 08, 2014 02:43 PM (AW7Gr)

278 He was a fantastic skater, I just couldn't quite get over the... priss. That usually doesn't bother me, not sure why I had the reaction I did. I mean, male skaters are almost always gay. I think with him he was just so over the top he needed to be in drag. I feel the same way about Adam Lambert. I could get used to it, though; as I keep saying, I really enjoyed his commentary. He carries himself so well, so refined and ladylike. And I don't mean that to be a slam. Poised is what I mean, probably. But he IS very ladylike.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:44 PM (Z6IPg)

279 "one of modern history's pivotal experiments" One of modern history's pivotal experiments in what? Sadism? Repression? Imbecility? Later, all. God bless. :-)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at February 08, 2014 02:45 PM (thBHI)

280 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 06:40 PM (Z6IPg) Posted by: Tim Tebow & Clay Matthews at February 08, 2014 06:41 PM (8lmkt) I am an equal opportunity spankee. They may each give it their best shot.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:46 PM (Z6IPg)

281 But he IS very ladylike.

Well, I think it's nice that someone is taking up the slack for bitches like me, so I'm all cool with it.

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:46 PM (8lmkt)

282

Attention: Any member of the US Olympic women's ice hockey team who is not ghey, please take one step forward.

Posted by: Dimetre Yackoff, Ghey Examiner at February 08, 2014 02:47 PM (nQjHM)

283 The Political Hat ‏@ThePoliticalHat 1m Canada's first crack pipe vending machines come to Vancouver http://tinyurl.com/kte98q2

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 02:47 PM (DmNpO)

284 Jenner Okay, that's it. No more Wheaties for me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 08, 2014 02:48 PM (aDwsi)

285 God, you and me both, Peaches. I should take notes. He is just sooo elegant. The ring was a bit much, but fly your freak flag proudly, young person! And I love that he learned some Russian.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:48 PM (Z6IPg)

286 Don't get me wrong Weir does know his sport and offers excellent technical commentary. But...he's a bit over the top. Maybe it's that stupid braid, I don't know. Anyway, speaking of over the top announcers. Did anyone hear that guy calling the biathlon? I thought he was going to hyperventilate.

Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at February 08, 2014 02:50 PM (zxrQh)

287 Bobsledding should have the track widened to allow two sleds at a time to go down like drag racing. And put jet packs on 'em

Posted by: Richard Gozinya at February 08, 2014 02:50 PM (KkQGg)

288 Has anyone done the Meme Generator thingy with Bob Costas: e.g., "Praises mass-murdering Soviet dictators/Complains about harassment of gays" yet?

Posted by: logprof at February 08, 2014 02:50 PM (jQrWf)

289 Bobsledding should have the track widened to allow two sleds at a time

so, like the toilets? hmmmmmm . . .

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:52 PM (8lmkt)

290 Bobsledding should have the track widened to allow two sleds at a time to go down like drag racing. And put jet packs on 'em Posted by: Richard --------------- I would, further, allow one team member to be armed with a tire iron. Because more interesting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 08, 2014 02:52 PM (aDwsi)

291 286 That guy was insane. A little too into it if you ask me.

Posted by: loneduck at February 08, 2014 02:52 PM (4Fbu2)

292 Bob Costos should thank President Obama for the new health care law, because without it he would have been in big trouble in Russia to take care of him. I know that Obamacare coverage is good there.

Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at February 08, 2014 02:52 PM (O6kI3)

293 Bruce Jenner can turn himself into a pseudo-woman, if that's what turns his crank, but I'm still not returning his calls. I have standards, you know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 08, 2014 02:53 PM (pFqpP)

294 The ring was a bit much, but fly your freak flag proudly, young person! And I love that he learned some Russian. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 06:48 PM (Z6IPg) His husband/wife? is of Russian/Jewish decent, Victor Voronov.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 08, 2014 02:53 PM (bCEmE)

295 I would, further, allow one team member to be armed with a tire iron. Because more interesting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 08, 2014 06:52 PM (aDwsi)

I've always loved you, Hammer. Thanks for always proving me right with that. roflmao

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:54 PM (8lmkt)

296 What almost killed the entire sport was the Great Dwarf Greasing Scandal of '57. Because once you lose the trust of the fans, it's almost impossible to get it back.

Posted by: The Guy Who Digs Dwarf Bowling at February 08, 2014 02:54 PM (8ZskC)

297 And I will just piss everyone off and say I thought they handled the communism part pretty well. The actual Bolshevik bit was visually unpleasant and unsettling, and they referenced the propaganda train, which I thought was pretty amazing in itself. As far as the Cold Era segment, if we did a similar bit, I doubt we'd be showcasing turning dogs and fire hoses on black people who wanted to drink out of the same water fountain as white people, or the internment camps, or the Trail of Tears or anything else like that. (And yes I know it's not anywhere near as horrible as Stalin's record, etc) But I didn't see anything that particularly glorified communism.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:54 PM (Z6IPg)

298 283 Canada's first crack pipe vending machines come to Vancouver http://tinyurl.com/kte98q2 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 06:47 PM (DmNpO) --------------------------- Ah, well --- as long as they don't have ciggie machines. That would be baaaaaad.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 08, 2014 02:55 PM (dfYL9)

299 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 06:54 PM (Z6IPg) ============== I agree with you.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 02:56 PM (P6QsQ)

300 His husband/wife? is of Russian/Jewish decent, Victor Voronov. Posted by: Tami at February 08, 2014 06:53 PM (bCEmE) I didn't know that! Very cool. And now that I think about it, I can see why they gave him the gig! It's a wonder every one of the NBC folks isn't a flaming queen! But don't you think he's doing a great job? He points out things I woudn't have noticed.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:56 PM (Z6IPg)

301 Bobsledding should have the track widened to allow two sleds at a time to go down like drag racing. This. And Spy Hunter Rules

Posted by: garrett at February 08, 2014 02:57 PM (1lByT)

302 But don't you think he's doing a great job? He points out things I woudn't have noticed. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 06:56 PM (Z6IPg) Yeah, I thought all the skating commentators did a great job, including him.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 08, 2014 02:57 PM (bCEmE)

303 But I didn't see anything that particularly glorified communism.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 06:54 PM (Z6IPg)

You're right, Tammy. I was astonished that they recognized the Tsarist history and, well, everything. I thought it was super cool, they did a really nice job. Hope I didn't miss too much by crawling off to bed early.

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:58 PM (8lmkt)

304 oh, wait, the one thought I did have was, wow, don't they realize it's Black History Month??? Because, uh, they did not go there.

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 02:59 PM (8lmkt)

305 Bruce Jenner can turn himself into a pseudo-woman, if that's what turns his crank Sorry, Bruce, Dorothy Hamill is still cuter.

Posted by: t-bird at February 08, 2014 02:59 PM (FcR7P)

306 According to twitter the promoter of the Zimmerman DMX fight has canceled it.

Posted by: Adam at February 08, 2014 02:59 PM (Aif/5)

307 Thank you, grammie! (Did I miss some news?) I thought it was great. I was just disappointed Vlad didn't come riding in with the head of a terrorist hanging off his belt or something!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 02:59 PM (Z6IPg)

308 Bobsledding should have the track widened to allow two sleds at a time to go down like drag racing. Two words: inter sections.

Posted by: t-bird at February 08, 2014 03:00 PM (FcR7P)

309 >>Bruce Jenner can turn himself into a pseudo-woman, if that's what turns his crank Sounds like the plan is to remove his crank.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 03:00 PM (g1DWB)

310 I told Costas to keep his eyes closed.

Posted by: Barack at the glory hole at February 08, 2014 03:01 PM (MMC8r)

311 Peaches, I think teh geyz are gonna displace African Americans as Libs Favored Cause.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:01 PM (Z6IPg)

312 @297 Nowhere near as positive or in denial about Communism as 90% of college professors. I did not expect a documentary on the Holodomor or invasion of Poland. Costas sucked of course, but not the opening ceremony color announcers.

Posted by: Beagle at February 08, 2014 03:02 PM (sOtz/)

313 Sounds like the plan is to remove his crank. Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 07:00 PM (g1DWB) OMG, Coke spew!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:02 PM (Z6IPg)

314 You're right, Tammy. I was astonished that they recognized the Tsarist history and, well, everything. I thought it was super cool, they did a really nice job. Hope I didn't miss too much by crawling off to bed early. **** As I tweeted last night in response to all the cat calls about the glossing over of the worst of Communism.... It's not like if the Olympics were held here we'd have a segment on the Trail of Tears in the telling of our history either. The opening ceremonies are supposed to be inspiring and not full of gloom and doom. There are great things about Russia that they are entitled to celebrate. The ballet was beautiful.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:03 PM (DmNpO)

315 Bobsledding should have the track widened to allow two sleds at a time to go down like drag racing. Two words: inter sections. *** Figure 8

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:03 PM (DmNpO)

316 Where does Garry Kasparov live now? Evidently not in Russia or he wouldn't be sending out those tweets that he has. Good for him!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 08, 2014 03:04 PM (XyM/Y)

317 Sounds like the plan is to remove his crank.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 07:00 PM (g1DWB)

Which would turn him from a crank-start to a kick-start.

Posted by: Zombie Ike Turner at February 08, 2014 03:04 PM (pFqpP)

318 I was just disappointed Vlad didn't come riding in with the head of a terrorist hanging off his belt or something!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 06:59 PM (Z6IPg)

Oh, hell, yeah, me, too, Tammy! He could have done a lot more. Doesn't he wrestle tigers and shit?

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 03:04 PM (8lmkt)

319 I thought it was great. I was just disappointed Vlad didn't come riding in with the head of a terrorist hanging off his belt or something! *** It's still early.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:04 PM (DmNpO)

320 Peaches, I think teh geyz are gonna displace African Americans as Libs Favored Cause. Gays are more upscale. Blacks are only important at election time.

Posted by: --- at February 08, 2014 03:04 PM (MMC8r)

321 Where does Garry Kasparov live now? Evidently not in Russia or he wouldn't be sending out those tweets that he has. Good for him! *** I know he spends time in NYC, but I'm not sure if that's where he lives.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:05 PM (DmNpO)

322 319 I thought it was great. I was just disappointed Vlad didn't come riding in with the head of a terrorist hanging off his belt or something! *** It's still early. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 07:04 PM (DmNpO) #twoweeks

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 08, 2014 03:05 PM (bCEmE)

323 The ballet was beautiful.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 07:03 PM (DmNpO)

the ballet was nothing short of astonishing . . . really, really wonderful!

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 03:06 PM (8lmkt)

324 Costas sucked of course, but not the opening ceremony color announcers. Posted by: Beagle at February 08, 2014 07:02 PM (sOtz/) Agree! Although one of the assholes made some kind of remark about how some of the elements look like those blow up things you see at car dealers. I thought that was bad. Maybe a crack you make at a commercial break, but not live. I will never forget Jim McKay badmouthing the Japanese Opening Ceremonies while he was announcing them. Really upset me. Also didn't think they needed to say anything about Putin's alleged mistress. Sure, talk about it afterwards, but not while it's going on.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:06 PM (Z6IPg)

325 What the hell is wrong with communism??

Posted by: Baraka at February 08, 2014 03:07 PM (jQrWf)

326 I saw some of the opening ceremony live online but the announcers were British. I'll have to go find the NBC broadcast and watch it.....sometime.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 08, 2014 03:08 PM (bCEmE)

327 323 The ballet was beautiful. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 07:03 PM (DmNpO) the ballet was nothing short of astonishing . . . really, really wonderful! Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 07:06 PM (8lmkt) Stunning and I am not a ballet fan. And the music they played during the Peter the Great section (I think) made me cry. I need to find out what it was.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:08 PM (Z6IPg)

328 It's still early.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 07:04 PM (DmNpO)

Oh, yeah, closing ceremonies . . . I'm picturing something like that polo-game-with-the-enemy's-head like they had in Man Who Would Be King. Okay, don't spoil it for me, I want to savor the thought.

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 03:09 PM (8lmkt)

329 When does the Men's Hockey start up?? Its really the only thing i want to watch. I haven't watched any Olympics yet. Thanks to this thread I can "watch" it vicariously through the horde. Its like receiving demented telegrams from the gates of Hades. Or something like that.

Posted by: puddleglum at February 08, 2014 03:09 PM (NHEyI)

330 It's still early. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 07:04 PM (DmNpO) #twoweeks Posted by: Tami at February 08, 2014 07:05 PM (bCEmE) Y'all are killing me!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:10 PM (Z6IPg)

331 @325 Nothing a big supply of bullets won't cure. No man, no problem.

Posted by: Uncle Joe at February 08, 2014 03:10 PM (sOtz/)

332 329 When does the Men's Hockey start up?? Its really the only thing i want to watch.I haven't watched any Olympics yet. Thanks to this thread I can "watch" it vicariously through the horde. Its like receiving demented telegrams from the gates of Hades. Or something like that.

Posted by: puddleglum at February 08, 2014 07:09 PM (NHEyI)

------

Couple games on Weds. USA starts Thurs AM.

Posted by: Dave S. at February 08, 2014 03:10 PM (UvR6d)

333 Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 07:09 PM (8lmkt) I hate to admit it, but I'd probably watch that.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:10 PM (Z6IPg)

334 311 Peaches, I think teh geyz are gonna displace African Americans as Libs Favored Cause.Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 07:01 PM (Z6IPg)
They don't even have to try and they still get 90 percent plus black vote.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 08, 2014 03:11 PM (juDHN)

335 Hey we're having a circle jerk. Who wants to be the pivot man? I'm getting tired.

Posted by: O'bammy's Mammy at February 08, 2014 03:13 PM (N3Al8)

336 I was just reading where the Bataan Death March was a pivotal experiment in WWII

Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at February 08, 2014 03:13 PM (MhA4j)

337 And Down goes Chicago! Down goes Chicago!!

Posted by: zombie Howard Cosell at February 08, 2014 03:14 PM (aTXUx)

338 They might as well cancel the games after that ring lighting fiasco.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 03:14 PM (6bMeY)

339 And speaking of the Bataan Death March, I don't think anyone lost their shit because Japan glossed over that.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:15 PM (Z6IPg)

340 Where did they get the clean water for the ice?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:15 PM (DmNpO)

341 I loved those biathlon announcers! Who knew there was so much enthusiasm for that sport? Our small town of 5000 in SE Idaho has an Olympian snowboarder, Jessika Janson. Very cool to root for a girl from your hometown.

Posted by: Captain's daughter at February 08, 2014 03:15 PM (Otwbm)

342 What's 50 million Kulaks one way or the other?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 03:16 PM (6bMeY)

343 Where did they get the clean water for the ice?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 07:15 PM (DmNpO)

well, fuck me running, I think you are the first one to bring that up. and, really, how DID that happen?

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 03:16 PM (8lmkt)

344 Ah, I see my hash is proclaiming to the world that I am the sexy pig.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:16 PM (Z6IPg)

345 The work camps in Siberia were a pivotal experiment .

Posted by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at February 08, 2014 03:17 PM (N3Al8)

346 Howard Notelling ‏@BluegrassPundit 11m Cheap Shot: Bryant Gumbel exclaims "paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.Â” http://t.co/Qyq45SncVI

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:17 PM (DmNpO)

347 I think the water was only an issue in the hotels where they have the media... I want to say it's further inland, nearer the mountains?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:18 PM (Z6IPg)

348 Yellow ice?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 03:18 PM (6bMeY)

349 Costas felches Putin while whining about treatment of teh gheys Who does he think decreed the anti gay laws, the Tea Party?

Posted by: kbdabear at February 08, 2014 03:18 PM (aTXUx)

350 Yellow ice?

I believe you mean "champagne ice," no, comrade?

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 03:19 PM (8lmkt)

351 DMX chickened out -- pass it on.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 08, 2014 03:19 PM (NRYdU)

352 Black preachers and gays crammed under the same big tent should make for some interesting times. Obama's economy has only helped stock investors and government employees. Black unemployment is through the roof. But at least black gay soldiers can get married. Winning!

Posted by: Uncle Joe at February 08, 2014 03:19 PM (sOtz/)

353 Some of those biathletes could really put it in the hole. When are the gheyathletes scheduled?

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 03:19 PM (EKOIc)

354 I don't suppose Gumble has ever heard a black comedian tell jokes about black folk and snow sports.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:19 PM (DmNpO)

355 And speaking of the Bataan Death March, I don't think anyone lost their shit because Japan glossed over that.>>

I didn't watch the opening so this may be way off. But isn't part of the problem the celebrating Stalin? Did they point out how great the Emperor was at the Japanese Olympics. It is one thing to not bring up the past at all but if you do bring up bits people are going to connect those bits with history.

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 03:19 PM (TI3xG)

356 Doh. Genocidal dictator sock fail.

Posted by: Beagle at February 08, 2014 03:20 PM (sOtz/)

357 DMX chickened out -- pass it on.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 08, 2014 07:19 PM (NRYdU)

bwahahahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 03:20 PM (8lmkt)

358 One thing I really liked about the opening ceremonies was the way they ended them with those big light-sculptures of winter athletes. After welcoming everyone to Russia, with it's history, culture, and music, they ended by reminding us why we're there in the first place. It always astounds me how little these huge drawn-out ceremonies have to do with sport. I don't remember ANYTHING in the London ceremonies that referenced athletes. (Well, other than torch bearers.)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 08, 2014 03:20 PM (dfYL9)

359 https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/431895870594772992 Buzzfeed has 17 reasons you should love Bob Costas. OTOH I hope his eye problem was caused by a zombie bite. https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedSports/statuses/431863470800134144 Â…

Posted by: kbdabear at February 08, 2014 03:21 PM (aTXUx)

360 I didn't watch the opening so this may be way off. But isn't part of the problem the celebrating Stalin?

somewhat to my disappointment, his gristle-encrusted head was nowhere in evidence . . .

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 03:21 PM (8lmkt)

361 Zimmerman should challenge Spike Lee next.

Posted by: --- at February 08, 2014 03:22 PM (MMC8r)

362 359 I hope it was caused by eating a Polonium sandwich.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 03:22 PM (6bMeY)

363 When do they start the Cornholing?

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 08, 2014 03:23 PM (JQuNB)

364 Racial quotas for everything!

Posted by: Bryant Gumbel at February 08, 2014 03:23 PM (Aif/5)

365 When do they start the Cornholing?

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 08, 2014 07:23 PM (JQuNB)

"start?"

Posted by: Your boss, asshole at February 08, 2014 03:23 PM (8lmkt)

366 The Russians should call their anti-gay laws sharia and the Left would call Putin a freedom fighter and send him ground-to-air missiles.

Posted by: Beagle at February 08, 2014 03:24 PM (sOtz/)

367 339 On the other hand you did not have people on TV saying that the Bataan Death march was a "Pivotal Experiment" in the history of the world. My point about it is that if Germany was hosting an Olympics and showed Nazi Imagery (not withstanding that most common Nazi symbolds are illegal to display in Germany) would we hear the same cheers and so forth? To me Communism and Nazism are the same thing. I was just as pissed when everyone was slobbering all over China during the summer games. Now everyone is free to do as they will. Putin is going to include soviet imagery because he himself does look on it fondly. There is still a sizeable portion of the Russian citizenry that looks at it fondly. That is fine. (not fine, but you know what I mean.) I just do not like the whitewashing from supposedly free, "enlightened" people. You cannot look back on history with rose colored glasses, everything should be looked at, warts and all and then weighed on both it's merits and demerits. I am not attacking you, I agree they should be allowed to do it, it is just what our reaction to it should be.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2014 03:24 PM (TGgNi)

368 This other Catwoman is way cuter than the older one.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 08, 2014 03:25 PM (6bMeY)

369 I don't suppose Gumble has ever heard a black comedian tell jokes about black folk and snow sports.

He's probably never talked to Shani Davis.

Posted by: HR at February 08, 2014 03:25 PM (hO8IJ)

370 The ladies hockey is on NBCSN. USA vs Finland. The goalie for Finland is pretty cute. USA's goalie is a ginger. USA is up 3-0.

Posted by: puddleglum at February 08, 2014 03:26 PM (NHEyI)

371 Oh, I thought the same thing, Margarita! I loved that.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:26 PM (Z6IPg)

372 Bryant Gumbel is a hate filled ,racist, sack of shit.

Posted by: steevy at February 08, 2014 03:27 PM (zqvg6)

373 Zimmerman should challenge Angela "Toerings" Corey. She's got about 100 lbs on him so, she will have the advantage. Plus, she's a know cheater.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 08, 2014 03:27 PM (NRYdU)

374 Did anyone tell NBC Stalin sent Chechens to Siberia? That would have pissed them off.

Posted by: Beagle at February 08, 2014 03:30 PM (sOtz/)

375 I did like the Russian Police Choir singing "Get Lucky" that NBC cut out. http://tinyurl.com/ruuskychoir

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 03:30 PM (EKOIc)

376 Heh. Some of the True Believers I know were bemoaning the loss of the Olympics on Friday. It still really rankles.

Posted by: Gem at February 08, 2014 03:31 PM (zw+pb)

377 Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2014 07:24 PM (TGgNi) Well said! And I get what you mean. I guess my point is more that I was maybe surprised it wasn't wayyyy more pro-communism. I thought they did a good job keeping politics out of it, which I think is more what they were trying to do, rather than blatant whitewashing. Perhaps I am too naive!

But I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I am not ashamed to admit it.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:31 PM (Z6IPg)

378 Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 07:30 PM (EKOIc) Oh that was great!! Thanks so much for sharing it! Some of them seem less than enthused!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:33 PM (Z6IPg)

379
dog olympics on fox sports 1

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 08, 2014 03:35 PM (n0DEs)

380 Feb 23 will be the 60th anniversary of the transfer of the Chechens and Inguish to Siberia. Hope the Olympics are over by then.

Posted by: Beagle at February 08, 2014 03:36 PM (sOtz/)

381 323 The ballet was beautiful. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 07:03 PM (DmNpO) the ballet was nothing short of astonishing . . . really, really wonderful! Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 07:06 PM (8lmkt) Ballet is a wonderful art form. If you get the chance to see a professional ballet company perform in person, it will certainly be worth your while.

Posted by: The Hobo Hooker Waitress Model Actress Wears Prada at February 08, 2014 03:36 PM (GeVLX)

382 so, MissTammy, where have you bee hiding yourself?

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 03:36 PM (rDidD)

383 Lefty gun grabbers go apeshit over gun prop on American skating couple doing a James Bond themed routine .. http://tinyurl.com/mtguke9 Will Bob Costas freak out about this US figure skaterÂ’s gun holster?

Posted by: kbdabear at February 08, 2014 03:36 PM (aTXUx)

384 Some of them seem less than enthused! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 Yeah, I think those were the guys who didn't know a lick of English and had the doo-wop parts.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 03:36 PM (EKOIc)

385 i really liked the colorful part of the ceremony.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 19 days (2wks 5days) until spring training at February 08, 2014 03:37 PM (u8GsB)

386 the ballet was fantastic....the white horses were amazing too.....but the whole thing went on too long......way to long.....but i guess they always do

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl 19 days (2wks 5days) until spring training at February 08, 2014 03:38 PM (u8GsB)

387 Back and forth from NC. Generally too tired to stay up for the ONT, cuz I am getting old! I was gone two days in Nov before Thor realized it, so that's how things are going for me!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:38 PM (Z6IPg)

388 one of my favorite olympic moments so far has been watching costas say "pussy riot". somehow I have a feeling he has not managed a convince himself it means a bunch of cats running out of control.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 03:38 PM (rDidD)

389 377 And I agree. It was fairly tasteful from what I saw (still looking on youtube to see the full thing.) The ceremony itself was not where I had the problem per se (although the glowy hammer and sickle was gag worthy), it was the breathless reaction to it. It is like a friend of one of my buddies. Out and out communist and soviet-phile. He is there standing with his hammer and sickle pins on his shirt and talking about how great the soviets were and all I could say was: "You are one of the useful idiots." He had no idea what he was advocating because we did not even get into a lot of the worst of the soviet excess even when I was in high school. It just seemed cool to him because no one had ever told him what it was really like beyond the propaganda slogans.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2014 03:38 PM (TGgNi)

390 ....the white horses were amazing too..... Amazingly racist.

Posted by: garrett at February 08, 2014 03:39 PM (1lByT)

391 Beagle at February 08, 2014 07:36 PM That is the only thing Stalin did right.

Posted by: Jango Unchained at February 08, 2014 03:39 PM (0Knjk)

392 the ballet was fantastic....the white horses were amazing too.....but the whole thing went on too long......way to long.....but i guess they always do *** Something like 3 to 3 1/2 hours IIRC

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:39 PM (DmNpO)

393 323 The ballet was beautiful. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 07:03 PM (DmNpO) the ballet was nothing short of astonishing . . . really, really wonderful! Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 07:06 PM (8lmkt) I missed it, but my daughter was telling me about it today. Said she was ticked they cut away for commercial break though. And she's not a ballet type. More hockeyish type.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 03:40 PM (EKOIc)

394 Back and forth from NC. Generally too tired to stay up for the ONT, cuz I am getting old! I was gone two days in Nov before Thor realized it, so that's how things are going for me! Posted by: Tammy sure you are tired but you look great as always. I get the same thing all the time. I can take both dogs for an hour walk get home and 10 mins later Mrs. YankeeFifth says, "hey have you walked our dogs this evening?"

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 03:40 PM (rDidD)

395 I was gone two days in Nov before Thor realized it, so that's how things are going for me!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 07:38 PM (Z6IPg)

oh, lordy lordy . . .

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 03:41 PM (8lmkt)

396 Ingush not Inguish. Interestingly though Stalin was responding to a four year insurgency by the Chechens. The more things change...

Posted by: Beagle at February 08, 2014 03:41 PM (sOtz/)

397 Oh the graft we could have made

Posted by: Chicago Politicians at February 08, 2014 03:42 PM (Q6pxP)

398 Well, at least you know that those of us here are reacting breathlessly to the pageantry, and not the atrocities in their history. Has anyone noticed a bit of a ..I don't know if meme is the proper term, but I keep seeing here and there in comments at various places about how "real" communism hasn't been given a fair chance...that Russia was evil Bolsheviks, not true communism....

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:42 PM (Z6IPg)

399 First rule of traveling abroad, anywhere, never order drinks with ice in them.

Posted by: navybrat at February 08, 2014 03:42 PM (AW7Gr)

400 Does it strike anyone else as strange that NBC isn't using their exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics to actually broadcast, I don't know, the friggin Olympics?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 08, 2014 03:43 PM (o9Rp5)

401 First rule of traveling abroad, anywhere, never order drinks with ice in them. Posted by: navybrat at February hey you ruin perfectly good scotch with some form of water you should have some form of montezumas revenge.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 03:44 PM (rDidD)

402 And she's not a ballet type. More hockeyish type. Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 07:40 PM (EKOIc) Oh that is me for sure. And I don't really like ballet at all. I can never follow the story line and although I like the costumes, overall I just find that the dancing keeps me from being able to enjoy what is almost always lovely music. But it was really, really lovely!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:45 PM (Z6IPg)

403 I had a really bad case of pink eye a couple of years ago. My doctor walked in to the examining room and said "That's the worst case I've ever seen." as she slowly backed away from me. It was pretty funny. No hands on exam that day. I'm sure everything I touched was sanitized pronto. I wonder why NBC is letting Costas on the set with other people. Pink eye is really contagious.

Posted by: Tuna at February 08, 2014 03:45 PM (M/TDA)

404 Does it strike anyone else as strange that NBC isn't using their exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics to actually broadcast, I don't know, the friggin Olympics? *** I sat here watching women's hockey for an hour before I realized it was the same game I watched at 3 am this morning. Would they have us believe there is NOTHING new to show us?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:45 PM (DmNpO)

405 If Chicago had been selected for the 2016 Olympics, it would have devastated it's Trade Show and Convention business. Look what happened in Atlanta. If you break contract with Trade Shows, they don't come back. And, yeah, the graft would have been thru the roof. The best part is that Valerie Jarrett and co. had bought vast tracks of property betting on getting the games. Maybe that's why she's so pissed.

Posted by: seamrog at February 08, 2014 03:46 PM (FLsGV)

406 398 That is an old theme. The "if Lenin had lived" camp. It is the same thing as people during the purges saying "If only Stalin knew" what people were doing in his name. Strictly speaking, Marx theorized that communism could not happen in Russia or China, because he presupposed an older, fully industrialized nation (neither really were.) His targets for the "inevitable" communist uprising were Great Britain and France.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 08, 2014 03:46 PM (TGgNi)

407 Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 07:40 PM (rDidD) No, I can see that happening. However, if you actually left the house and flew half way across the country, I suspect she might notice you were gone before two full days had gone by. Unlike my husband.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:46 PM (Z6IPg)

408 Communism wasn't just a 5-year blip on the radar; it pretty well covered the entire 20th century in Russia. If you're going to do a "history of Russia" theme for your opening ceremonies, you HAVE to address it. If they'd left it out, we'd be sneering that they were "whitewashing" their history and get them going the other direction. I could have done without the floating Soviet Realism sculptures, but it wasn't as heavy on the communist propaganda as things like this can be. Maybe we've been spoiled by our own cultural meltdown into thinking that an orgy of apologetic hand-wringing is de rigueur, but the Russians aren't like that, and they're not going to oblige.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at February 08, 2014 03:47 PM (FkH4y)

409 mmm.... fried pickles. So good. What kind of food are they serving at the games?

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 03:47 PM (EKOIc)

410 Is ESPN2 or some websites streaming the olympics somewhere? Even if NBC actually showed more of it I hate giving them eyeball time.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 08, 2014 03:48 PM (ql12X)

411 383 Lefty gun grabbers go apeshit over gun prop on American skating couple doing a James Bond themed routine .. http://tinyurl.com/mtguke9 Posted by: kbdabear at February 08, 2014 07:36 PM (aTXUx) OMG! A holster! Those gun-shaped pieces of leather are just lying in wait to do mayhem, you know.

Posted by: rickl at February 08, 2014 03:48 PM (sdi6R)

412 A million Kulaks were unavailable for comment.

Posted by: navybrat at February 08, 2014 03:49 PM (AW7Gr)

413 Why is there no coverage of President Obama attending the Olympic Games in that Sockie place in Mexico???

Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at February 08, 2014 03:49 PM (O6kI3)

414 What kind of food are they serving at the games?

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 07:47 PM (EKOIc)

Canine surprise!

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 03:49 PM (8lmkt)

415 Posted by: Tuna at February 08, 2014 07:45 PM (M/TDA) There is a form called EKC that is like insanely contagious. My mama was an ophthalmology NP for 30 years, and she got it a month before she retired. She wouldn't let anyone in her house.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:49 PM (Z6IPg)

416 Second rule of traveling abroad: At least to the Third World - Don't eat any fruit you don't peel yourself. And another - Don't leave home without Lomotil (the drug that acts like a cork when - not if - you get the runs)

Posted by: Ski mania at February 08, 2014 03:50 PM (5Q1ZU)

417 mmm.... fried pickles. So good. What kind of food are they serving at the games? *** I still can't remember who turned me on to the TGIF brand but I fried some of those up for SB and chowed down. About as good as homemade.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:51 PM (DmNpO)

418 Maybe we've been spoiled by our own cultural meltdown into thinking that an orgy of apologetic hand-wringing is de rigueur, but the Russians aren't like that, and they're not going to oblige. Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at February 08, 2014 07:47 PM (FkH4y) Oh, well said!!! We could emulate them in that regard.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 03:52 PM (Z6IPg)

419 However, if you actually left the house and flew half way across the country, I suspect she might notice you were gone before two full days had gone by. Unlike my husband. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 07:46 PM (Z6IPg) Wait...wha?! I mean...how....wha?!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 08, 2014 03:52 PM (bCEmE)

420 I knew a guy, friend of a friend, who has a strategy that says go some place eat their food, drink their water, let nature take its course, move on. he is a moron and not in the good way. he has been incredibly sick in third world hotels for days.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 03:52 PM (rDidD)

421 >>Has anyone noticed a bit of a ..I don't know if meme is the proper term, but I keep seeing here and there in comments at various places about how "real" communism hasn't been given a fair chance...that Russia was evil Bolsheviks, not true communism.... Oddly enough, this is sort of the thing successive commie leaders often said about their predecessors in the old USSR. Comrade Stalin was downgraded after his death for not doing it right. Here's a fun fact about Mother Russia. After the fall of the USSR among the things they had to change was the national anthem. References to Lenin, Stalin, Communism, just didn't seem cool to most people. They went through some changes and ended up with a song without lyrics. Among the people who complained the loudest were athletes who complained that a wordless anthem was not very inspiring when played at sporting events. So Vlad decided to make a new anthem. Took the music from the old Soviet anthem and grafted on some new lyrics. You can take the boy out of communism but you can't take the commie out of the commie.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 03:53 PM (g1DWB)

422 Would they have us believe there is NOTHING new to show us? Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 07:45 I think they may run new/live stuff on the cable channels. NBCSports, CNBC and MSNBC. The big stuff will be tape delayed on NBC for prime time. Could be wrong. YMMV.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 03:53 PM (EKOIc)

423 "he has been incredibly sick in third world hotels for days."

If that is the card that is dealt to me, so be it, but I will be damned if I am to pay good money for that.

Posted by: navybrat at February 08, 2014 03:54 PM (AW7Gr)

424 @398 Of course. The knock on Communism is that after a hundred attempts nobody has ever tried to do it right. That men do not learn from the lessons of history is the most important lesson history can teach. Ah, Aldous Huxley iirc.

Posted by: Beagle at February 08, 2014 03:54 PM (sOtz/)

425 405 Absolutely, seamrog. I'm in the Convention biz in Atl and tossing shows so networks could have halls early sent them to Vegas and Orlando, etc. for good.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 08, 2014 03:55 PM (ojnk6)

426 Canine surprise! Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 07:49 Hah. That's why Putin ordered the strays shot.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 03:55 PM (EKOIc)

427 in nyc they are running live sports all day on channel 122. in the evening the broadcast channel is rerunning the same events. it is nice that the time difference between moscow and nyc is 12 hours.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 03:56 PM (rDidD)

428 I still can't remember who turned me on to the TGIF brand but I fried some of those up for SB and chowed down. About as good as homemade. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 07:51 That would be me.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 03:56 PM (EKOIc)

429 If that is the card that is dealt to me, so be it, but I will be damned if I am to pay good money for that. Posted by: navybrat same guy deliberately caught some incurable disease from a girl he was gonna marry cause he was gonna be with her forever. forever is somewhere shy of a year or so for him.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 03:58 PM (rDidD)

430 That would be me. *** Thanks! They were really good and I liked the horseradish sauce too.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 03:59 PM (DmNpO)

431 I am a student of Communism. I have studied it my whole life. I have traveled to all of the best Communist countries, I have visited all of them EXCEPT for North Korea.

I have been arrested for crimes in one of them.

Communism is a bankrupt ideology. It is, simply put, a return to monarchism, in which the most virulent ideologue becomes king and everyone else is a serf. Remove all incentive of self improvement and you have communism.

We are already there in the USA. We just don't know it yet.

Posted by: navybrat at February 08, 2014 03:59 PM (AW7Gr)

432 Posted by: Tami at February 08, 2014 07:52 PM (bCEmE) I know, right??? And what makes it even worse is that he works from home more often than not. I seldom see him. Has an office in our basement. I have my library/craft room/ boudoir on the third floor. He usually falls asleep on the couch in his office. He'll call me on his cell if he should need anything. He finally asked me why I wasn't picking up the land line and I told him I was in Arkansas. He didn't believe me til I called him from that land line, at which point I also told him I didn't see much point in staying married. And then he launched in to his "just a few more years" schpiel. Eh, I'm already just about at the point of not caring. That's a bad sign for me.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 04:00 PM (Z6IPg)

433 Oh yay. Bob Costas.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 08, 2014 04:01 PM (o9Rp5)

434 so who was the silly lady complaining about having a separate category for actors and actresses in some goofy showbiz awards? Anyone know how she feels about having separate categories for men and women in sports?

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 04:01 PM (rDidD)

435 Crazy, Stupid, Love is on FX now

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:02 PM (DmNpO)

436 432 Damn Tammy, sorry to hearmthat.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 08, 2014 04:02 PM (ojnk6)

437 FWIW, MSNBC has wymenz hockey starting tomorrow at 7a CST. I assume that's live.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:02 PM (EKOIc)

438 same guy deliberately caught some incurable disease from a girl he was gonna marry cause he was gonna be with her forever. forever is somewhere shy of a year or so for him.>>

Is his nickname Typhoid Larry?

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 04:02 PM (TI3xG)

439 Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 07:52 PM (rDidD) I ate street tacos all day long and drank Coke with ice in Tijuana and all across Baja and never got sick. No one could believe it.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 04:02 PM (Z6IPg)

440 We are already there in the USA. We just don't know it yet.

Posted by: navybrat at February 08, 2014 07:59 PM (AW7Gr)

some of us do . . .

Posted by: Peaches at February 08, 2014 04:02 PM (8lmkt)

441 Garry Kasparov ‏@Kasparov63 now This one line from NBC is an example of why history repeats. Politely whitewashing the horrors of the past leads to horrors in the future.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:03 PM (DmNpO)

442 ((Tammy))

Posted by: votermom at February 08, 2014 04:03 PM (GSIDW)

443 I ate street tacos all day long and drank Coke with ice in Tijuana and all across Baja and never got sick. No one could believe it. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February well, you are of stouter stock / sterner stuff I guess. He is a trust fund baby so.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 04:03 PM (rDidD)

444 Crazy, Stupid, Love is on FX now

I love Emma Stone, but I think I'll check out this slope style business.

Posted by: no good deed at February 08, 2014 04:04 PM (vBhbc)

445 Garry Kasparov ‏@Kasparov63 now This one line from NBC is an example of why history repeats. Politely whitewashing the horrors of the past leads to horrors in the future. *** I'll flip back and forth. I've been watching NBC non-stop fr 24-hours now. It was even on while I slept.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:05 PM (DmNpO)

446 However, if you actually left the house and flew half way across the country, I suspect she might notice you were gone before two full days had gone by. Unlike my husband. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 07:46 PM (Z6IPg) Did he know you were leaving? Did you talk to him before you left? I can't even imagine being gone for two days before my husband notice....and he can be a space cadet sometimes.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 08, 2014 04:06 PM (bCEmE)

447 NBC reduces a century of oppression and death to an 'ooopsie.'

Posted by: --- at February 08, 2014 04:07 PM (MMC8r)

448 USA beat the Finns in Ladies Hockey, 3-1. It was an entertaining game actually.

Posted by: puddleglum at February 08, 2014 04:08 PM (NHEyI)

449 @431 "The only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism."

Posted by: The Real George Orwell at February 08, 2014 04:09 PM (sOtz/)

450 I'm at the A-hole Olympics, i.e., Planet Fitness.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 08, 2014 04:10 PM (1xmF2)

451 The most annoying comments about communism are the "well, we're just as bad...." etc. Moral relativism sucks.

Posted by: puddleglum at February 08, 2014 04:10 PM (NHEyI)

452 NBC reduces a century of oppression and death to an 'ooopsie.'

And NBC have an FCC licence. This means they're approved by the State.

Think American Renaissance or Taki will ever get an FCC licence? Think we'll have Firing Line back with Derb and Steyn (Buckley's true heirs)?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 08, 2014 04:13 PM (30eLQ)

453 Have the Crusades been dragged into this yet? It will.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 08, 2014 04:14 PM (1xmF2)

454 Thank you, votermom! Right back at ya! I need to quit whining, we had a fantastic wild crazy epic love for a good long time. And we will stay together, most likely, but I'll miss what we had. Things had changed after I was so sick for two years...he kind of went in to Big Daddy mode because he had to literally do everything for me and then we lived apart for a year when I moved back here; I damn near lost my mind at first, but you really do get used to being on your own. In hindsight, me moving here alone was a mistake. Tami, no, I didn't tell him, which was immature of me, but I wanted to see how long it'd take him to notice.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 04:14 PM (Z6IPg)

455 425 ManWithNoParty I worked a lot of SuperShows back in the day. Didn't they move the show somewhere else before it died ? Vegas maybe ?

Posted by: seamrog at February 08, 2014 04:14 PM (FLsGV)

456 In case any public school or Ivy League victims out there have no idea what we are talking about, search: "power kills democide". Communism is number one baby! Though 1,400 years of jihad is a contender longterm.

Posted by: Beagle at February 08, 2014 04:14 PM (sOtz/)

457 Snowboarder from Alaska!

Posted by: museisluse at February 08, 2014 04:15 PM (0nufA)

458 /not posting the AmRen ref because I necessarily agree with everything posted there; posting it because I see them as the "NBC of the Right"

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 08, 2014 04:15 PM (30eLQ)

459 Geez. I hate the "up close and personals". Why can't we just watch the athletes?

Posted by: Tuna at February 08, 2014 04:15 PM (M/TDA)

460 Dana Perino ‏@DanaPerino 3m When the summer Olympics is held in Rio and all the problems of Sochi seem small by comparison, I imagine the press will be totally charmed.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:16 PM (DmNpO)

461

441 Garry Kasparov Ã¾@Kasparov63 now This one line from NBC is an example of why history repeats. Politely whitewashing the horrors of the past leads to horrors in the future. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 08:03 PM (DmNpO)

The Left acts as if the entire history of the Soviet Union never happened.

I know an anesthesiologist from Poland, really a nice guy. He said he's feels like he's living in a nightmare, watching his adopted country embrace what he fled and hates more than anything. He told me sometimes he wants to stand on a corner and scream at the college kids walking around in their Che T-shirts.

Posted by: Donna V. at February 08, 2014 04:18 PM (R3gO3)

462 455 It did go to Vegas, and I'd be surprised if it died. Rebranded maybe, but not dead. Used to work that one myself as well as Comdex ( dead) and Woodworking as an AV AE and show manager.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 08, 2014 04:20 PM (ojnk6)

463 Going back to NBC. The hundreds dead from Fast And Furious - they don't matter. You'd think it would be news but, no. It's only news because Obama's opponents might use it to make the Lightworker look bad
http://takimag.com/article/apathy_toward_tyranny_gavin_mcinnes

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 08, 2014 04:20 PM (30eLQ)

464 I wish they would play theme music from the Simpsons during the snowboard runs.

Posted by: real joe at February 08, 2014 04:20 PM (xXhgd)

465

The current Russian anthem uses the same music as the old Soviet anthem, and if you hear it (instrumentally or with lyrics) there is a very "Russian" feel to it. Sort of natural to keep the music and change the words.

Germany did a similar thing. Haydn's wonderful music was paired with nationalist poetry from a half-century later to produce "Deutschland uber Alles" (Deutschlandlied), which of course has nothing to do with Nazi hegemonism and racial theory. The first stanza of the song has geographical references which were not linked to Nazi irredentism but the original version of German nationalism before there *was* a Germany to speak of. Since the war the far less poetic third stanza has been the official lyrics, and of course the Horstwessellied banned (East Germany had their own lame anthem which of course disappeared in 1990).

As to the opening ceremonies, didn't watch 'em (never do), but FFS let's not adopt moral imbecility in our comparisons. The Trail of Tears is supposed to somehow be equated with the epochal slaughter and terror and degradation of the Soviet Union? I just put down "Savage Continent" after 100 pages because I couldn't take the NPR-stupid imbecilic moral equivalence (and glaring inaccuracies) suffusing the thing, sure don't expect to find it here.

A focus on cultural history and sports would have been a perfect theme for the ceremonies, avoiding all the issues here. And yes, Russia DOES have a history about which they should be, from the start, troubled and even apologetic. Don't recall the Munich ceremonies - how did they handle their similar historical problem?

Posted by: non-purist at February 08, 2014 04:21 PM (afQnV)

466 Things had changed after I was so sick for two years...he kind of went in to Big Daddy mode because he had to literally do everything for me and then we lived apart for a year when I moved back here; I damn near lost my mind at first, but you really do get used to being on your own. In hindsight, me moving here alone was a mistake. Tami, no, I didn't tell him, which was immature of me, but I wanted to see how long it'd take him to notice. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 08:14 PM (Z6IPg) I hope things get better for you. {{{{hugs}}}}

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 08, 2014 04:21 PM (bCEmE)

467 Why can't we just watch the athletes?

I had NBC SN today and was pleasantly surprised to find them covering events with a minimum of babbling. Fewer commercials, too.

Posted by: Retread at February 08, 2014 04:24 PM (cHwk5)

468 I need to quit whining, we had a fantastic wild crazy epic love for a good long time. And we will stay together, most likely, but I'll miss what we had. Things had changed after I was so sick for two years...he kind of went in to Big Daddy mode because he had to literally do everything for me and then we lived apart for a year when I moved back here; I damn near lost my mind at first, but you really do get used to being on your own. In hindsight, me moving here alone was a mistake. Tami, no, I didn't tell him, which was immature of me, but I wanted to see how long it'd take him to notice. Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February well sure but - scion.

Posted by: yankefifth at February 08, 2014 04:24 PM (rDidD)

469 I worked in Mexico with some clowns who said "They don't make peppers anywhere too hot for me !!" Had to wait for them a lot in the morning. Same nitwits would eat street vendor seafood. I got sick without trying, I can only imagine how bad they had it.

Posted by: bill sometimes bill from canada at February 08, 2014 04:25 PM (d8Vu1)

470 Has anyone done a video montage comparing Leno's tearful goodbye in 2014 to his goodbye in 2009? Ought to be worth a few laughs, no?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 08, 2014 04:26 PM (1xmF2)

471 As to the opening ceremonies, didn't watch 'em (never do), but FFS let's not adopt moral imbecility in our comparisons. The Trail of Tears is supposed to somehow be equated with the epochal slaughter and terror and degradation of the Soviet Union? *** Of course not. What I said was that the ceremony is not supposed to be doom and gloom and that we wouldn't make our worst moments part of the ceremony either.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:26 PM (DmNpO)

472 Soviet Union? Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at February 08, 2014 04:28 PM (Q6pxP)

473 Dana Perino Ã¾@DanaPerino 3m When the summer Olympics is held in Rio and all the problems of Sochi seem small by comparison, I imagine the press will be totally charmed. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 08:16 Are they shitting in street curbs like they do in Rio?

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:28 PM (EKOIc)

474 Men's Rhythmic Gymnastics up next.

Posted by: The Janeane Garofalo Tattoo Collection at February 08, 2014 04:29 PM (KQp38)

475 The Trail of Tears is supposed to somehow be equated with the epochal slaughter and terror and degradation of the Soviet Union?

No; but if you're honest, you'll at least equate it with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars

Or, if English, with the shit various of our governments got up to in Ireland.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 08, 2014 04:29 PM (30eLQ)

476 How could you not think of Soviet Union as red man's revenge?

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at February 08, 2014 04:30 PM (Q6pxP)

477 Are they shitting in street curbs like they do in Rio? *** I think that might be her point. Heck, the Brazilians rioted a few days ago about a 10 cent increase in bus fares.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:30 PM (DmNpO)

478 Holy Schniekies, a 3.5 hour old thread. Has anyone jumped in the barrel voluntarily to get to a better smell yet.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at February 08, 2014 04:32 PM (DL2i+)

479 462 ManWithNoParty I worked a couple of Woodworkings also. Chances are we may have met. Trade Shows are a small world. And unfortunately getting smaller.

Posted by: seamrog at February 08, 2014 04:32 PM (FLsGV)

480 Holy Schniekies, a 3.5 hour old thread. Has anyone jumped in the barrel voluntarily to get to a better smell yet. Posted by: DaveA at February 08, 2014 08:32 PM (DL2i+) Tempting...

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 08, 2014 04:33 PM (AymDN)

481 Somehow names like "Chas" and "Sage" seem so appropriate for snowboarding.

Posted by: Tuna at February 08, 2014 04:34 PM (M/TDA)

482 479 Probably so. I was (and still am) in AV, when TAVS existed and then when AVW had a local sales office (me and a phone inside Freeman's Atl, office).

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 08, 2014 04:35 PM (ojnk6)

483 Don't recall the Munich ceremonies - how did they handle their similar historical problem? Posted by: non-purist at February 08, 2014 08:21 PM (afQnV) Well, that was quite a long time ago, and it seems to me that these insanely ambitious "History of the World and Humanity and the Evolution of Goodness and Progress" spectaculars are a more recent innovation. It used to be we got to see some nice folk dancing in traditional costumes, then a good parade of the athletes and the "official" stuff of raising the flag and lighting the torch. I don't remember anything as lavish as what we have now, and it seems that every 2 years they try to top what's gone before.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at February 08, 2014 04:36 PM (FkH4y)

484 Rio is gonna be a clown show, at least off camera, but I'm betting the opening is gonna be epic. Carnival gone even bigger.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 04:39 PM (g1DWB)

485 483 Don't recall the Munich ceremonies - how did they handle their similar historical problem? ================ They hosted a new problem.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 04:39 PM (P6QsQ)

486 Oh FFS. Costas and Collinsworth?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 08, 2014 04:40 PM (o9Rp5)

487 Costas again. Time to mute.

Posted by: Tuna at February 08, 2014 04:41 PM (M/TDA)

488 I've worked Trade Shows in Rio. Dana is severely understating what we're going to see and hear about. The workers down there are some of the laziest, worthless pos's I've ever had the displeasure of working with. About half of the readiness of Sochi awaits in Rio.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 08, 2014 04:42 PM (ojnk6)

489 Costas could have made his pink eye cool. A pirates eypatch.

Posted by: The Hickster at February 08, 2014 04:42 PM (TI3xG)

490 Oh FFS. Costas and Collinsworth? *** They might be the best you get. Last night they also had Meredith Viera and Matt Lauer.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:42 PM (DmNpO)

491

boulder, if we do even a generous (i.e. only midly morally imbecilic) pairing of "worst moments", we'll run out in the US before we get through the Russian civil war post-1917. And just for clarity, I think it would be far more amusing to pair up non-native "native" American worst moments with each other with Euro-colonial worst moments towards any of them as a warm-up. Not even talking the galactic evil of the Aztecs or Incas, just the homely genocide that was SOP among many North American tribes/empires.

But for the UK, the NHS bit in the opening ceremonies really suffices. Not even white-washing evil history, but revelling in ongoing self-debasement and under-achievement through self-inflicted idiocy. One is darker, but the latter is creepy because it is the living embodiment of Orwell's worst fears.

Posted by: non-purist at February 08, 2014 04:43 PM (afQnV)

492 They might be the best you get. Last night they also had Meredith Viera and Matt Lauer.

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Not enough booze in the world to get me to watch that!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 08, 2014 04:43 PM (o9Rp5)

493 It'd be kind of difficult for Russia to touch on any part of its history that *didn't* involved totalitarianism and a bunch of people getting killed. Maybe they should stick to cultural achievements, but if they're going in for actual history, what else are they going to cite? The people to really knock are our guys like Costas who have no excuse for pandering to this.

Posted by: AD at February 08, 2014 04:44 PM (E31Rf)

494 Tammy, nice to see you around again.

Posted by: Darles Chickens at February 08, 2014 04:44 PM (ZpoIZ)

495 obama signed the Farm Bill I wonder how many thousand of pages it was..

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 08, 2014 04:44 PM (xrN2Q)

496 OK. Trail of Tears story. When the Mrs. was having our first kid and was scared, I coached her with words of encouragement how those Cherokees were real women and just dropped babies as they walked. It was simple. She said my coaching sucked. Go figure.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:44 PM (EKOIc)

497 Oh crap, I've already seen all this skating stuff.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 04:44 PM (P6QsQ)

498 Ok ice dancing. We've got the best mothered is.

Posted by: Tuna at February 08, 2014 04:45 PM (M/TDA)

499 Hi y'all! Just got home from dinner, now sitting down with a glass of wine and watching one of my favorite movies, "The Wedding Singer."

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 08, 2014 04:46 PM (GrtrJ)

500 If the French skaters train in Michigan, what does that say about France?

Posted by: phreshone at February 08, 2014 04:46 PM (Q6pxP)

501 Bob Costas: Gold Medal winner in Soviet Cock Sucking. Seriously, where did they dig up this pathetic old queen carrying buckets full of commie cum?

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at February 08, 2014 04:47 PM (vHRtU)

502 482 ManWithNoParty Many moons ago I did some time with FDC Chi. Bounced around being Facility, Contractor, and wound up Free Lancer. Made a lot of friends while working in Atlanta. Good people.

Posted by: seamrog at February 08, 2014 04:47 PM (FLsGV)

503 Or is this different from this morning? I'm so confused .....

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 04:47 PM (P6QsQ)

504 olddog, those stories, similar to the ones about Africans, are bullshit.

In the old days, the woman would be confined to the hut and many, many neighbor women would help take care of her. I am not so sure that we do it any better. Nowadays, the hospital tosses her out in 48 hours or less and the family is scattered around the globe.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 08, 2014 04:47 PM (V70Uh)

505 Bob's eye won't clear up because his conjunctivitis is multi-drug resistant gonorrhea... no facials Bob!

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at February 08, 2014 04:49 PM (vHRtU)

506 Hi y'all! Just got home from dinner, now sitting down with a glass of wine and watching one of my favorite movies, "The Wedding Singer." *** I think Drew Barrymore is so stinking cute. It's almost impossible to imagine where she is today given how effed up her childhood was.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:49 PM (DmNpO)

507 How did auto correct change " the best there is" to " the best mothered is"?

Posted by: Tuna at February 08, 2014 04:49 PM (M/TDA)

508 No Vlad, your minion doesn't have to give me a reach around

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 08, 2014 04:49 PM (Q6pxP)

509 ManWithNoParty at February 08, 2014 08:42 PM (ojnk6) Heading back in a month. Gonna miss Carnival by a week but the hangover will still be in full effect. Forget the Olympics, the World Cup is in Brazil in 2014 and I don't expect they will be anywhere close to being ready.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 04:49 PM (g1DWB)

510 Posted by: DangerGirl at February 08, 2014 08:46 PM (GrtrJ) What DG isn't telling y'all is that it was her b-day dinner! Saaaalute!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at February 08, 2014 04:49 PM (bCEmE)

511 I don't understand how Costas got the gig over Richard Simmons. Simmons has him beat in all the important categories, athletic ability, energy, and gravitas. Plus he doesn't have that oozie congo crotch puss seeping out of his peep hole. Gutta go bring home the bacon bits and work for my health plan. Stay wom spots fans...

Posted by: ontherocks at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (2oUOL)

512 I don't understand how Costas got the gig over Richard Simmons. Simmons has him beat in all the important categories, athletic ability, energy, and gravitas. Plus he doesn't have that oozie congo crotch puss seeping out of his peep hole. Gutta go bring home the bacon bits and work for my health plan. Stay wom spots fans...

Posted by: ontherocks at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (2oUOL)

513 I don't understand how Costas got the gig over Richard Simmons. Simmons has him beat in all the important categories, athletic ability, energy, and gravitas. Plus he doesn't have that oozie congo crotch puss seeping out of his peep hole. Gutta go bring home the bacon bits and work for my health plan. Stay wom spots fans...

Posted by: ontherocks at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (2oUOL)

514 I don't understand how Costas got the gig over Richard Simmons. Simmons has him beat in all the important categories, athletic ability, energy, and gravitas. Plus he doesn't have that oozie congo crotch puss seeping out of his peep hole. Gutta go bring home the bacon bits and work for my health plan. Stay wom spots fans...

Posted by: ontherocks at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (2oUOL)

515 Aw, thanks Tami!!! *raises glass*

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (GrtrJ)

516 Aw, thanks Tami!!! *raises glass*

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (GrtrJ)

517 Aw, thanks Tami!!! *raises glass*

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (GrtrJ)

518 Aw, thanks Tami!!! *raises glass*

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (GrtrJ)

519 If the French skaters train in Michigan, what does that say about France? *** The Japanese duo from last night train in the US as well.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (DmNpO)

520 If the French skaters train in Michigan, what does that say about France? *** The Japanese duo from last night train in the US as well.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (DmNpO)

521 If the French skaters train in Michigan, what does that say about France? *** The Japanese duo from last night train in the US as well.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (DmNpO)

522 If the French skaters train in Michigan, what does that say about France? *** The Japanese duo from last night train in the US as well.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:50 PM (DmNpO)

523 I DL'd THOR for tonight, even though Nat Portman is in it and some other a-holes. Gravity was also available but there is No Way Ill watch clooney in a movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 08, 2014 04:51 PM (xrN2Q)

524 I DL'd THOR for tonight, even though Nat Portman is in it and some other a-holes. Gravity was also available but there is No Way Ill watch clooney in a movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 08, 2014 04:51 PM (xrN2Q)

525 I DL'd THOR for tonight, even though Nat Portman is in it and some other a-holes. Gravity was also available but there is No Way Ill watch clooney in a movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 08, 2014 04:51 PM (xrN2Q)

526 I DL'd THOR for tonight, even though Nat Portman is in it and some other a-holes. Gravity was also available but there is No Way Ill watch clooney in a movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 08, 2014 04:51 PM (xrN2Q)

527 Or is this different from this morning? I'm so confused ..... Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 08:47 I think prime time NBC network coverage is tape delayed. So you probably did see some of the coverage this morning.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:52 PM (EKOIc)

528 Or is this different from this morning? I'm so confused ..... Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 08:47 I think prime time NBC network coverage is tape delayed. So you probably did see some of the coverage this morning.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:52 PM (EKOIc)

529 Or is this different from this morning? I'm so confused ..... Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 08:47 I think prime time NBC network coverage is tape delayed. So you probably did see some of the coverage this morning.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:52 PM (EKOIc)

530 Or is this different from this morning? I'm so confused ..... Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 08:47 I think prime time NBC network coverage is tape delayed. So you probably did see some of the coverage this morning.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:52 PM (EKOIc)

531 Forget the Olympics, the World Cup is in Brazil in 2014 and I don't expect they will be anywhere close to being ready. *** they have built double-size seats at the venues for obese people because, there, it is a disability. And... the disabled person will also receive a complimentary ticket for a guest because, you know... disabled.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:52 PM (DmNpO)

532 Forget the Olympics, the World Cup is in Brazil in 2014 and I don't expect they will be anywhere close to being ready. *** they have built double-size seats at the venues for obese people because, there, it is a disability. And... the disabled person will also receive a complimentary ticket for a guest because, you know... disabled.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:52 PM (DmNpO)

533 Forget the Olympics, the World Cup is in Brazil in 2014 and I don't expect they will be anywhere close to being ready. *** they have built double-size seats at the venues for obese people because, there, it is a disability. And... the disabled person will also receive a complimentary ticket for a guest because, you know... disabled.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:52 PM (DmNpO)

534 Forget the Olympics, the World Cup is in Brazil in 2014 and I don't expect they will be anywhere close to being ready. *** they have built double-size seats at the venues for obese people because, there, it is a disability. And... the disabled person will also receive a complimentary ticket for a guest because, you know... disabled.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 08, 2014 04:52 PM (DmNpO)

535 Or is this different from this morning? I'm so confused .....

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 08:47 PM (P6QsQ)

I think it's what was on NBC SN earlier today, isn't it? Only with Pink Eye now.

Posted by: Retread at February 08, 2014 04:53 PM (cHwk5)

536 Or is this different from this morning? I'm so confused .....

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 08:47 PM (P6QsQ)

I think it's what was on NBC SN earlier today, isn't it? Only with Pink Eye now.

Posted by: Retread at February 08, 2014 04:53 PM (cHwk5)

537 Or is this different from this morning? I'm so confused .....

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 08:47 PM (P6QsQ)

I think it's what was on NBC SN earlier today, isn't it? Only with Pink Eye now.

Posted by: Retread at February 08, 2014 04:53 PM (cHwk5)

538 Or is this different from this morning? I'm so confused .....

Posted by: grammie winger at February 08, 2014 08:47 PM (P6QsQ)

I think it's what was on NBC SN earlier today, isn't it? Only with Pink Eye now.

Posted by: Retread at February 08, 2014 04:53 PM (cHwk5)

539 NBC New York City Tip Line: 866-639-7244 FLOOD IT Bob Costas is a proven paid Russian shill...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at February 08, 2014 04:53 PM (vHRtU)

540 NBC New York City Tip Line: 866-639-7244 FLOOD IT Bob Costas is a proven paid Russian shill...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at February 08, 2014 04:53 PM (vHRtU)

541 NBC New York City Tip Line: 866-639-7244 FLOOD IT Bob Costas is a proven paid Russian shill...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at February 08, 2014 04:53 PM (vHRtU)

542 NBC New York City Tip Line: 866-639-7244 FLOOD IT Bob Costas is a proven paid Russian shill...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at February 08, 2014 04:53 PM (vHRtU)

543 Commies dancing to 'Diamonds are a girls best friend' Irony, IT BURNS...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (vHRtU)

544 Commies dancing to 'Diamonds are a girls best friend' Irony, IT BURNS...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (vHRtU)

545 Commies dancing to 'Diamonds are a girls best friend' Irony, IT BURNS...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (vHRtU)

546 Commies dancing to 'Diamonds are a girls best friend' Irony, IT BURNS...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (vHRtU)

547 OK. Trail of Tears story. When the Mrs. was having our first kid and was scared, I coached her with words of encouragement how those Cherokees were real women and just dropped babies as they walked. It was simple. She said my coaching sucked. Go figure.

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Any you survived? My wife would have ripped my still beating heart from my chest and eaten it had I tried that.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (o9Rp5)

548 OK. Trail of Tears story. When the Mrs. was having our first kid and was scared, I coached her with words of encouragement how those Cherokees were real women and just dropped babies as they walked. It was simple. She said my coaching sucked. Go figure.

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Any you survived? My wife would have ripped my still beating heart from my chest and eaten it had I tried that.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (o9Rp5)

549 OK. Trail of Tears story. When the Mrs. was having our first kid and was scared, I coached her with words of encouragement how those Cherokees were real women and just dropped babies as they walked. It was simple. She said my coaching sucked. Go figure.

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Any you survived? My wife would have ripped my still beating heart from my chest and eaten it had I tried that.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (o9Rp5)

550 OK. Trail of Tears story. When the Mrs. was having our first kid and was scared, I coached her with words of encouragement how those Cherokees were real women and just dropped babies as they walked. It was simple. She said my coaching sucked. Go figure.

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Any you survived? My wife would have ripped my still beating heart from my chest and eaten it had I tried that.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (o9Rp5)

551 New one

Posted by: lindafell at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (PGO8C)

552 New one

Posted by: lindafell at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (PGO8C)

553 New one

Posted by: lindafell at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (PGO8C)

554 New one

Posted by: lindafell at February 08, 2014 04:54 PM (PGO8C)

555 509 Good luck with that Jack, and yeah, World Cup is just going be the warmup fustercluck for what the Olumpics are gonna look like. Where are they gonna move 20 square miles of people in ghettos to in order to even approach third world status over Banana Republic. I've been lucky enough to stay on Ipanema beach when I've gone, but never went more than a block or two off of the beach road.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 08, 2014 04:55 PM (ojnk6)

556 509 Good luck with that Jack, and yeah, World Cup is just going be the warmup fustercluck for what the Olumpics are gonna look like. Where are they gonna move 20 square miles of people in ghettos to in order to even approach third world status over Banana Republic. I've been lucky enough to stay on Ipanema beach when I've gone, but never went more than a block or two off of the beach road.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 08, 2014 04:55 PM (ojnk6)

557 509 Good luck with that Jack, and yeah, World Cup is just going be the warmup fustercluck for what the Olumpics are gonna look like. Where are they gonna move 20 square miles of people in ghettos to in order to even approach third world status over Banana Republic. I've been lucky enough to stay on Ipanema beach when I've gone, but never went more than a block or two off of the beach road.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 08, 2014 04:55 PM (ojnk6)

558 509 Good luck with that Jack, and yeah, World Cup is just going be the warmup fustercluck for what the Olumpics are gonna look like. Where are they gonna move 20 square miles of people in ghettos to in order to even approach third world status over Banana Republic. I've been lucky enough to stay on Ipanema beach when I've gone, but never went more than a block or two off of the beach road.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at February 08, 2014 04:55 PM (ojnk6)

559 It'd be kind of difficult for Russia to touch on any part of its history that *didn't* involved totalitarianism and a bunch of people getting killed.

Well, yeah.

Looking back at that expulsion of the Crimean Tatars I'd mentioned, that might even be a high moral point of Stalin's reign. At least Stalin wasn't trying to kill the Tatars (as opposed to how he treated the Ukraine). For Uncle Joe that's progress!

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 08, 2014 04:55 PM (30eLQ)

560 It'd be kind of difficult for Russia to touch on any part of its history that *didn't* involved totalitarianism and a bunch of people getting killed.

Well, yeah.

Looking back at that expulsion of the Crimean Tatars I'd mentioned, that might even be a high moral point of Stalin's reign. At least Stalin wasn't trying to kill the Tatars (as opposed to how he treated the Ukraine). For Uncle Joe that's progress!

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 08, 2014 04:55 PM (30eLQ)

561 It'd be kind of difficult for Russia to touch on any part of its history that *didn't* involved totalitarianism and a bunch of people getting killed.

Well, yeah.

Looking back at that expulsion of the Crimean Tatars I'd mentioned, that might even be a high moral point of Stalin's reign. At least Stalin wasn't trying to kill the Tatars (as opposed to how he treated the Ukraine). For Uncle Joe that's progress!

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 08, 2014 04:55 PM (30eLQ)

562 It'd be kind of difficult for Russia to touch on any part of its history that *didn't* involved totalitarianism and a bunch of people getting killed.

Well, yeah.

Looking back at that expulsion of the Crimean Tatars I'd mentioned, that might even be a high moral point of Stalin's reign. At least Stalin wasn't trying to kill the Tatars (as opposed to how he treated the Ukraine). For Uncle Joe that's progress!

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 08, 2014 04:55 PM (30eLQ)

563 Nood. Come on up.

Posted by: Fourth horseman at February 08, 2014 04:57 PM (GKF3X)

564 Nood. Come on up.

Posted by: Fourth horseman at February 08, 2014 04:57 PM (GKF3X)

565 Nood. Come on up.

Posted by: Fourth horseman at February 08, 2014 04:57 PM (GKF3X)

566 Nood. Come on up.

Posted by: Fourth horseman at February 08, 2014 04:57 PM (GKF3X)

567 >>they have built double-size seats at the venues for obese people because, there, it is a disability. And... the disabled person will also receive a complimentary ticket for a guest because, you know... disabled. I was there last summer, just after a soccer ref was stabbed and beheaded at a soccer match. Stabbed. Beheaded. Soccer. Rio during the day, party. Rio after dark, scary.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 04:57 PM (g1DWB)

568 >>they have built double-size seats at the venues for obese people because, there, it is a disability. And... the disabled person will also receive a complimentary ticket for a guest because, you know... disabled. I was there last summer, just after a soccer ref was stabbed and beheaded at a soccer match. Stabbed. Beheaded. Soccer. Rio during the day, party. Rio after dark, scary.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 04:57 PM (g1DWB)

569 >>they have built double-size seats at the venues for obese people because, there, it is a disability. And... the disabled person will also receive a complimentary ticket for a guest because, you know... disabled. I was there last summer, just after a soccer ref was stabbed and beheaded at a soccer match. Stabbed. Beheaded. Soccer. Rio during the day, party. Rio after dark, scary.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 04:57 PM (g1DWB)

570 >>they have built double-size seats at the venues for obese people because, there, it is a disability. And... the disabled person will also receive a complimentary ticket for a guest because, you know... disabled. I was there last summer, just after a soccer ref was stabbed and beheaded at a soccer match. Stabbed. Beheaded. Soccer. Rio during the day, party. Rio after dark, scary.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 08, 2014 04:57 PM (g1DWB)

571 Why, thank you Darles! (Great nic, BTW!)

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 04:58 PM (Z6IPg)

572 Why, thank you Darles! (Great nic, BTW!)

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 04:58 PM (Z6IPg)

573 Why, thank you Darles! (Great nic, BTW!)

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 04:58 PM (Z6IPg)

574 Why, thank you Darles! (Great nic, BTW!)

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at February 08, 2014 04:58 PM (Z6IPg)

575 Nowadays, the hospital tosses her out in 48 hours or less and the family is scattered around the globe. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 08, 2014 08:47 Grampa, by the we had our third kid hospital tried to kick momma out in 24 hours. I balked and we got an extra day and got it covered by insurance.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:59 PM (EKOIc)

576 Nowadays, the hospital tosses her out in 48 hours or less and the family is scattered around the globe. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 08, 2014 08:47 Grampa, by the we had our third kid hospital tried to kick momma out in 24 hours. I balked and we got an extra day and got it covered by insurance.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:59 PM (EKOIc)

577 Nowadays, the hospital tosses her out in 48 hours or less and the family is scattered around the globe. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 08, 2014 08:47 Grampa, by the we had our third kid hospital tried to kick momma out in 24 hours. I balked and we got an extra day and got it covered by insurance.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:59 PM (EKOIc)

578 Nowadays, the hospital tosses her out in 48 hours or less and the family is scattered around the globe. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 08, 2014 08:47 Grampa, by the we had our third kid hospital tried to kick momma out in 24 hours. I balked and we got an extra day and got it covered by insurance.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 08, 2014 04:59 PM (EKOIc)

579 527 Nowadays, the hospital tosses her out in 48 hours or less and the family is scattered around the globe. Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at February 08, 2014 08:47 Grampa, by the we had our third kid hospital tried to kick momma out in 24 hours. I balked and we got an extra day and got it covered by insurance. Posted by: olddog in mo I was begging to be let out after 24 hours. I had 3 c-sections too. I just can't get any rest in the hospital when they come check your vitals every f'ing hour, day and night. I'd rather be at home.

Posted by: lindafell at February 08, 2014 05:03 PM (PGO8C)

580 I heard Scott baio gave bob costas pink eye. I'm seriously you guys.

Posted by: Cartman at February 08, 2014 05:07 PM (Uo535)

581 "I don't understand how Costas got the gig over Richard Simmons." Putin doesn't want teh gheys in his country anymore because of the declining birthrate. The USSR always had a dynamic of tolerating and prosecuting homosexuals when it suited. One decade they'd be recruited as agents, with special perks,against the decadent intolerant west and others they'd be sent to the mental hospital as dangerous deviants poisoning the society of the new man. The Orthodox Church isn't terribly warm or accepting to them either. Where Putin is a fairly devout Orthodox Christian and of the old school soviet mindset, his stance is obvious.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at February 08, 2014 05:20 PM (A1Dcl)

582 I simply love that Bob Costas has pink eye.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Duchess of Something at February 08, 2014 05:43 PM (baL2B)

583 Oh man, Chicago in Olympic hosting contention.
I completely forgot that that was a thing.

Posted by: RichUncleSkeleton at February 08, 2014 05:54 PM (3eJXg)

584 My god, I do NOT understand the communist apologists. Stalin killed far more people than Hitler, yet the left embraces the ideology and ignores the horrendous murder the ideology hath wrought. We should have movies about the gulags, memorials dedicated to Stalin's victims, and the Russian people need to make sure that the world "Never Forgets," because if we do NOT completely and utterly expose the crimes of this ideology, it will kill millions more. What will it take to thoroughly discredit once and for all the gulags of Stalin and enslavement of Eastern Europe, Russia, Cambodia, North Korea. Why our are artists NOT telling this story through movies, books, and music?

Posted by: MistressOverdone at February 08, 2014 06:19 PM (2/oBD)

585 Somebody should alert Costas to the fact that Russia's greatest poet, A. Pushkin, was an octoroon. That ought to keep him busy working that angle.

Posted by: BarneyOffal at February 08, 2014 06:31 PM (ul4Lc)

586 boulder, if we do even a generous (i.e. only midly morally imbecilic) pairing of "worst moments", we'll run out in the US before we get through the Russian civil war post-1917. And just for clarity, I think it would be far more amusing to pair up non-native "native" American worst moments with each other with Euro-colonial worst moments towards any of them as a warm-up. Not even talking the galactic evil of the Aztecs or Incas, just the homely genocide that was SOP among many North American tribes/empires. Posted by: non-purist Thanks for posting that. As a director of a small town hist. soc. in N. IL I run into this "we treated the Indians so bad all the time. If I have the time and inclincation, depending on the person, I point out the Sauk and the Fox were driven out of Ontario into MI, then by other tribes into Wi, then by other tribes into N. IL. Yeah, they were a whole friendly bunch of f*ckers. Ig you look at history it's the story of mankind. Wake the f*ck up and America needs to stand up today! (end of rant)

Posted by: The Farmer at February 08, 2014 06:48 PM (eBupg)

587 Commies all imagine that they are on top and in power, right up to the moment they get an ice pick in the ear.

Posted by: navybrat at February 08, 2014 07:31 PM (AW7Gr)

588 More murders occur in Chicago than Sochi. Too dangerous for the Olympics.

Posted by: CTimbo at February 09, 2014 10:48 AM (kDJwZ)

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