The news is already hyping this Wednesday's Powerball drawing. As of now the jackpot is $400 million and growing. I'll probably buy a few tickets since anything less doesn't interest me.
Last Friday my wife posted a somewhat critical comment about curling on Facebook. She wrote: Am I the only one that thinks the screaming in curling is FREAKING annoying?
I watched a lot of curling on Canadian television when I was a kid and as a fan I feel the need to defend the sport.
Basic rules and terms:
Each team has four players. Each player on the team throws two 40-pound granite stones (or rocks) toward the bullseye (or house) on the far end of the ice. Teams alternate throwing stones (or rocks) until all eight are played. This is called an end (like a baseball inning) There are eight or ten ends in a game.
Once all sixteen stones (or rocks) have been thrown down the narrow sheet of ice the score for that end is counted. Only one team can score in an end. A team scores one point for every stone (or rock) that it has closer to the center of the house (or button or smallest circle in the bullseye) than the other team.
The yelling: Stones (or rocks) will curl (or bend) depending on conditions of the ice surface and the rotation which is applied intentionally. The people with the brooms (sponge mop looking things) sweep which makes a stone (or rock) curl less and travel farther. Sweeping warms the ice.
The thrower yells instructions to the sweepers; HARD, EASY, OFF are a few commands. Hearing people yell in Latvian can be hard on the ears so maybe it's the international flair of the Olympics that bothers Wanda? I'll get tickets for the next curling match around here and take her. I'm sure once she sits through an all American game she'll love it.
Why curling is a great sport:
It doesn't cost much to play.
It's good exercise.
Guys and gals that look like Uncle Fred and Aunt Olivia can go to the Olympics.
I watched Snowboard cross last night. It's an event where six people on snowboards race down a track wide enough for five. It's been an Olympic event since 2006. It is very exciting.
The athletes have coaches and board technicians. I saw a fellow apply hot wax to the bottom of a snowboard. He also had a shaker (like the ones in pizza joints that hold cheese or pepper flakes) and was sprinkling (according to the announcer) "A white powder worth thousands of dollars" over the wax.
I had a friend who sprinkled around white powder worth thousands of dollars and he was arrested.
According to Monster.com here are 5 signs a co-worker is out to get you.
1. You find evidence someone tried to access your computer.
2. Your co-worker makes a point of highlighting your errors.
3. Your co-worker is bad mouthing you behind your back
4. Your co-worker is trying to undermine your success,
5. Your co-worker is suddenly interested in your private life.
I think they missed a few.
6. Everyone in the office knows you're allergic to nuts and you get a pistachio almond birthday cake.
7. The boss receives an e-mail with naked photos of you posing next to a yak.
8. Your co-worker puts a whoopee cushion under your chair seat.
9. Your co-worker invites you to lunch in the bad section of town.
10. You find a voodoo doll and a "DIE YOU BITCH" sign on your desk.
And in the ain't you glad you live in America section here is news from a far.
No more lace panties here.
Woman took to the streets wearing panties on their heads Sunday as they protested new laws banning underwear in Kazakhstan.
The legislation-which includes the required level of moisture absorption in the garments-will come into force this summer in Kazakhstan as well as Russia and Belarus according to the Moscow Times.
Lace underwear does not meet a 6 percent threshold for moisture absorption required by the new law, with the synthetic material reportedly reaching only 3 to 3.6 percent. The new law will come into force on July 1st.
The newspapers said many women had vowed to stockpile the garments before the ban is introduced.
Didn't the world learn anything from Probation? Make something illegal and people will want it all the more. A large black-market trade in underpants is sure to flourish.
Psst...Psst...Hey...over here. I got all kinds of lace panties for you, you like red? I got red.
How can this be enforced? Sniffing or feeling for excess moisture seems rather barbaric. What about moisture detectors?
Excuse me miss, yes that's right...go through the metal detector first.
I guess going commando is out of the question.
The front bathroom is finished so now it's on to the toilet room.
1 comment:
Thanks for the info on curling. I guess it's like bocce ball on ice.
I had to laugh about the panty thing is the balkans (have I got my geography right?). I guess they don't have panty liners over there, which take care of the moisture problem. I haven't been to Europe, but in Japan, the toilet paper is like our toilet seat covers. Besides being rough, it doesn't absorb. So if their TP is similar, I can understand the moisture absorbing requirements.
But the other question is why is government involved in such an intimate issue? Don't they have better things to do? And lace is nothing, how much moisture do thong panties absorb? Have they been banned also? Also, the last time I had lace panties, the inner liner was a cotton knit.
Trish
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