Posted on 01/27/2008 6:57:51 AM PST by Mo1
Maybe it’s a cabbage with a nassssty carnivorous fruit fly colony.
Hey, what a coincidence! That’s your favorite kind, isn’t it?
Nope. They’re only in Oregon.
Most people think it will be Georgia or Florida.
I’ll send you one with cheese on top. :P
Then what’s a funkle?
BTW, I want my teddy bear back....all in one piece. :P
LOL! Right! And it's not just my butt that's off the rocker!
I don’t know about the flogging but I expect their athletes are groomed and treated pretty much along the same lines as athletes were from all the former Eastern Block countries. If they win then they can expect life to be a little more comfortable than it is for the general population and if they fail, they lose all the benefits and priviledge they’d previously enjoyed.
Pelosi country? Please, don’t remind me. Yech.
Other than Ms. Pelosi, things aren’t too bad. The state is broke, Arnold wants to raise taxes, the weather has been lovely, I’m having a good summer. ;)
Darks, you know that goes without saying. :D
Well, no, the remodeling isn’t completed. We have some left to do, but eh, it keeps me out of trouble.
Gran is still buying and redecorating houses in one state or another but that doesn't seem to keep her out of trouble. LOL
A funkle is five posts in a row.
Sorry about your teddy, it got torn off...
Pelosi's book bombing
Hillary making move to get on DNC ballot
The One's poll numbers declining
McCain's poll numbers rising
China's smog becoming "mist"
Republicans' continuing House debates on drilling getting public traction & cheers
Gas prices going down
Edwards in trouble
I'm not used to having so much Good News in one day. :)
Is she ironing in the attic? :)
She’s not allowed to iron. She thinks it’s a phone and keeps burning her face.
I saw on some show (maybe a news segment) that Chinese athletes are pushed to win at all costs. No other medal but the gold matters to them. That’s a lot of pressure for these young kids. Of course they’re out there to get the gold, but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if steroids or other drugs aren’t in the picture for those Chinese athletes....much more so than other countries. Really sad.
Lol! Bad news is, it’ll all be different next week. Better enjoy while you can! ;)
Lol! That’s never happened to me before, I’m happy to say! :)
We've had problems with some of our own, finest Olympians. Marion Jones comes to mind. She kicked everyone's behind, came home with a fist full of gold medals around her neck and lots more in her bank account. She was a media darling until questionable tests results started stacking up. When questioned under oath, she lied to the court, to the press, to everyone. She is now broke and in prison, has had to forfeit all her medals and still must pay off huge monetary fines when she is releasd from prison. Its good that she was found out and that she is paying for it. But it was a little too late for the clean athletes she competed against who were cheated out of a legitimate win and the opportunity to turn a gold medal into endorsements and numerous other benefits. They were not only denied the material rewards but they were denied the fame, their moment in history.
The same just happened to our men's 4 X 400 relay team who won gold at the games in Sydney in 2000. Antonio Pettigrew, one of the four on that team recently admitted to cheating. He was stripped of his medal AND so were his three fellow relay teammates who competed clean. Michael Johnson, one of those clean runners, voluntarily returned his medal when he heard about Pettigrew's admission. That was an unprecendented step but one he felt had to be done becauseas he said: it was won unfairly. Johnson describes the medal as "tainted" and said: "I know that the medal was not fairly won and that it is dirty and so I have moved it from the location where I have always kept my medals because it doesn't belong there.
"And it doesn't belong to me, so I will be returning it to the IOC because I don't want it. It was not won fairly. I am deeply disappointed and saddened."
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