I swear today is the first time I've heard the word "yips" and now I've heard it in two contexts. The definition sounds so surreal.
Yips, or The yips is an expression describing an apparently baseless sudden loss of ability in one of a number of different sports.
Professional or leading amateur sportsmen affected by the Yips sometimes recover their ability, sometimes compensate by changing technique, or may be forced to abandon their sport at the highest level.
It totally sounds like a yanked out of your ass excuse. The definition went on to use words like "neuromuscular." Dude. Sometimes you start sucking and you can't stop.
I feel so uncharitable.
Oh, the Telegraph. Some of our UnAmericans can tell you about the Telegraph.
Well, Cândido Godói is a real town with a whole bunch of twins. I don't think they created the story from whole cloth.
But does anyone else lend credence to the book?
Ah, here is an article disputing the theory [link]
Now I want to know about the "twin towns all over the place" phenomenon. I have never heard of this before. It certainly DOES make sense that he'd gravitate towards one.
And really? Not-dead-Nazis this close to midnight? My insomnia is pretty under control these days, but this is no help.
He's gotta be dead by now.
Now I want to know about the "twin towns all over the place" phenomenon. I have never heard of this before. It certainly DOES make sense that he'd gravitate towards one.
I've heard of a few other twin towns before. I've heard Jumeauville in France referred to as one (which makes sense, since the name means Twin Town), but the internet doesn't seem to back that up.
OK, Mengele is dead. I KNOW that.
And if there were any elderly Nazis under my bed a) Dallas would bark; b) they'd have to be gay elderly Nazis or the forcefield that blocks any heterosexual men from entering my bedroom would have been activate.
Why is the phrase "elderly Nazis" giving me a serious case of the giggles?
I can't figure it out. Or stop giggling.
ETA: I think it's because I am picturing them as, like, ponies with eye patches, which I understand makes no sense whatsoever, and no, I am not even currently on any cold medication.
I swear today is the first time I've heard the word "yips" and now I've heard it in two contexts.
It's a golfing term, but I think any athletic act that involves a timeout and thinking then acting is prone to it: penalty kick, free throw, place kick. Hitting in baseball too is prone to the yips.
Which is really just being self-conscious and not getting your mind out of the way of what you've trained your body to do.
