The medals this year are gorgeous! I love the jade rings.
See, Vera? Dress yourself up; you get taken out somewhere fun.
Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Aug 09, 2008 6:29:06 pm PDT #2230 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sumi - Aug 09, 2008 6:29:55 pm PDT #2231 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
I can't even get the NBC site to open for m e - so the online stuff is no help at all.
SailAweigh - Aug 09, 2008 6:30:01 pm PDT #2232 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Dara Torres amazes me. 41 years old and competing in the Olympics as a swimmer, something you think of as being a twenty-year-old's sport.
Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2008 6:30:28 pm PDT #2233 of 10003
brillig
Yay the Korean swimming guy!
Jesse - Aug 09, 2008 6:30:59 pm PDT #2234 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The dresses of the women holding the country name benners are gorgeous.
And especially awesome when I turned it on to boxing earlier -- they really classed up the joint.
sarameg - Aug 09, 2008 6:31:51 pm PDT #2235 of 10003
I was a swimmer. Not a competitive one, but for a period of a year or three, I swam at least 2 hours a day, mostly crawl. I'm already wide in the shoulders, and hoo boy. Got wider. Boobs got even bigger as the pecs increased, like I needed that. I turned into a goddamned triangle. I was doing it for stress release and ultimately started fucking up my shoulders in the process, so I had to back off.
I look at the professionals with their sculpted bods and laugh. That was never me, but I get how awesome it is to flow through the water.I miss swimming.
billytea - Aug 09, 2008 6:31:57 pm PDT #2236 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Dara Torres amazes me. 41 years old and competing in the Olympics as a swimmer, something you think of as being a twenty-year-old's sport.
We were just checking out her bio! "It says she was born in 1967. That's gotta be a mistake. ...Hang on, she competed at Seoul. The hell?"
Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2008 6:32:13 pm PDT #2237 of 10003
brillig
Male gymnasts do have weird bodies.
Hubby wants me to point out that male gymnasts aren't that hard to tip over because balance is their thing. And that an iron cross can convert to a right cross very easily.
Ginger - Aug 09, 2008 6:33:14 pm PDT #2238 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Does anyone else think that Bob Costas' hair looks like a piece?
I just thought it was a bad dye job.
Alibelle - Aug 09, 2008 6:33:45 pm PDT #2239 of 10003
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I didn't understand the cheerleaders in the high-heeled boots doing the pee-pee dance for two hours during the opening ceremony. What was that about? And what is Beijing going to do with the footprint thing that the athletes were making as they were walking in, with the giant ink pads. Are they going to hang it in the bird's nest or something?