Is there a minimum age for the Olympics, or for any sports other than gymnastics and figure skating? I know that the minimum gymnastics age is 16, but I've heard a few 14- and 15-year-olds mentioned in other sports.

Hil, the age minimums are determined by each sport's individual federation. So, with skating, for example, they go by what the ISU dictates.

Well, just so we know what people in good shape SHOULD look like. Since as Americans, we may not be familiar with that look. IJS. :)

Okay, think about what you're saying y'all. Do you really want to see that guy from Guam in a thong? Or some of the female Bulgarian weightlifters?

Moderation in all things, people.

I was kidding. I tend to want more clothing on people most of the time.

Oh, msbelle, congrats on your free night!

And if I didn't say it before, wow, Allyson!

I kinda went back to sleep. Mostly lay in bed and listened to the radio.

I have not used IM either! Well, there was that once, but I was on someone else's computer and felt compelled to respond lest the querier think my friend was ignoring her!

My mom's eyesight is improving as she gets older. Considering she probably started needing glasses at birth, this is a pleasant surprise.

sara, go iChat, activate iChat. not this second or anything, just you know, you should.

ok off to laundry. hopefully mac will be picked up in 30 minutes or so, just enough time for a wash.

I was kidding. I tend to want more clothing on people most of the time.

Yeah, I know. Of course, teasing back is its own punishment-- I'm now brainwormed with images of the guy from Guam in a thong. The downside of a very vivid imagination. *g*

My eyesight tends to get worse in spurts lately. From ages 10 through 16 or so, I usually needed a new prescription at least once a year. Then it settled down to every two years. The past few years, it's kind of been that my eyesight stays the same for about three years, and then suddenly gets worse.

just so we know what people in good shape SHOULD look like

Showing the women's volleyballers in two pieces is helpful, because the pair I saw had the barest of tummy bulges and showed folds when they bent over--and anyone who says, "Oh, my god, how horrible, they're fat" should have to do time with the Guam judoist demonstrating how he's not out of shape either. Or some of the weightlifters.

Oh yeah-- the guy from Guam is probably ridiculously fit. Just wouldn't want to see him in a thong. :-P Then again, I wouldn't want to see me in a thong either.

It's like the converse of the argument that I've heard more than one sports radio host say about figure skating, about how it's not a real sport. When I was living in Cleveland, one enraged me to the point where I called in and demanded, "Yo, Sparky, so you can balance on a concave blade an eighth of an inch wide, land multiple revolution jumps without falling, spin on one of those blades and do it for nearly five minutes? Why don't you go try and then we'll talk."

Not that it made a damned bit of difference, but it made me feel better.

sara, go iChat, activate iChat.

But then I'd have to figure out how to use it!