I just checked, Jamaica has 6 golds.
I am out of touch with how much we rock.
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
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.
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2008 10:45:13 am PDT #5480 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DavidS - Aug 26, 2008 10:45:54 am PDT #5481 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Heiden was a beast. Manliest thighs ever.
Trudy Booth - Aug 26, 2008 10:48:23 am PDT #5482 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I am out of touch with how much we rock.
So you don't get to marry the Jamaican relay team?
tommyrot - Aug 26, 2008 10:48:44 am PDT #5483 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I felt kinda' sorry for Beth Heiden. She went early in one event and set a world record. But it turned out to not be good enough to get a medal.
Kat - Aug 26, 2008 10:49:13 am PDT #5484 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
There's some overlap between people who have conservative interpretations of Christianity who want to, you know, live like Christ, help the poor, steward the earth, blah blah blah, and the more liberal side of things. Which, after all the polarizing, is perhaps our only hope for humanity.
MWAH! If you were here, Plei, I'd kiss you for this because it's so completely true.
Trudy Booth - Aug 26, 2008 10:49:32 am PDT #5485 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I think Phelps medaled swimming three strokes (fly, free, breast) and Spitz only one. But I'm not 100% on that.
Kat - Aug 26, 2008 10:50:34 am PDT #5486 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
In other news, Spa Week is coming up for west coasters on Sept. 15. For those of you who don't remember me pushing it before, it's a bunch of spas doing $50 treatments. I keep thinking, "Well HELLO facial!"
Lee - Aug 26, 2008 10:52:27 am PDT #5487 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
oooh. Hello Birthday Massage.
amych - Aug 26, 2008 10:53:45 am PDT #5488 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Spitz medals:
(the 100 m freestyle [00:51:22], 200 m freestyle [01:52:78], 100 m butterfly [00:54:27], 200 m butterfly [02:00:70], 4 x 100 m freestyle relay [03:26:42], 4 x 200 m freestyle relay [07:35:78] and the 4 x 100 m medley relay [03:48:16])
Wikipedia is strangely silent about which stroke he did in that last medley, but either free or fly seems most likely.
brenda m - Aug 26, 2008 10:56:49 am PDT #5489 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'm sure if you had, say, ten individual decathlon medals along with the "all around" we have now Spitz's record could have been broken that way.
Aren't there? I mean, aren't there individual medals for most if not all of the pieces that make up decathalon?