More on The Olympic Games

Where have I been the last several years?

When did jumping on a trampoline become an Olympic sport?
I bet The Man Show had something to do with this one...
You know, "And now girls jumping on trampolines!"

When did synchronized diving become an Olympic sport?
And why two people?
Let's make it harder ~ have eight or ten or even twenty people dive at the same time.

Badminton?
That was always the easy way out of PE class...

Handball?

I get the synchronized swimming thing (sort of ~ Jim just laughs).
But where is the Esther Willams' aspect of this "sport"?
Why only two girls?
I want to see twenty women with noseplugs on trying not to drown.
And why not men?

Why are some sports for one sex and not the other?
I want to see guys doing backflips on the balance beam.
In Junior High the girls always had to do the parallel bars ~ why is this only for men now?

Why only synchronized diving and swimming?
John wants to see synchronized boxing.
I personally want to see synchronized trampolining and synchronized badminton.
And maybe at the same time.
Do a flip and hit the birdie or is that flip the birdie?

Equestrian?
The horse is doing all the work.
And if equestrian is in there, what about all the other cowboy sports?
Bull riding, cattle roping, barrel racing, bronc riding...

Shooting?
Rifles, pistols, skeet.
What about Uzi, semi-automatics and sawed off shotguns?

Table Tennis?
How about a game from my high school days ~ Beer Pong?

And here are some other Olympic Games that I would like to see:


Unicycling ~ no end to this one!
They could have
100 meters,
relays,
a marathon,
tricks...



Yoga ~ who can stay in downward facing dog the longest and with the best form?
Skateboarding ~ wait, is that already in there?
Carol wants to see jump roping.

I want to see hopscotch.





What about bowling?
Darts
Surfing
Roller Skating ~ Inline 1000 meter, roller derby style where they beat the crap out of each other...
Skim boarding
Stilts ~ 100 meter, 400 meter, relays, marathons...


Pogo Sticks ~ 50 yard dash, pogo stick over the pole vault bar...





Hula Hoops!
Who can go the longest?
Who has the best tricks?




Four Square
Caber Toss (hey, they have the hammer throw, why not this?)
Dodge Ball (oops, that might be in there somewhere too)


Pin the Tail on the Donkey
(it's very similar to archery!)



Twister
Monopoly
Chutes and Ladders
Operation
Candyland

The list is endless...

Watching the Olympics on Mexican TV

There is something very strange, interesting, disturbing and somewhat entertaining about watching big events on TV while you are in a foreign country.
I watched America's Bicentennial Celebration on French TV.
And I have watched The Olympics several times while being in countries other than the USA.
But there is nothing like watching The Olympics on Mexican television...
N O T H I N G.

The commentator stage set looks like something from a bad 70's game show.The colors, the flashing lights, the metallic stripes across the center table, the egg chairs - WAIT, EGG CHAIRS??
When is the last time you saw a chair that looked like an egg?I think they have some of these on rides in Disneyland...
Why do they even have a table in the middle when each guy has a tv screen right in front of his face?
And why put them in a circle?
There is something not right about this set...

The choices of sports are pretty funny too.
Interrupting men's gymnastics to show women's judo.
But, hey one of the women doing judo was from Mexico!

Mexico is very proud of their athletes ~ which is a good thing!
Mexico's one medal awarded so far was won by Paola Espinosa ~ a diver from La Paz, and her partner (sorry, can't remember her name) for sychronized diving (another topic to follow).

Then there are the skits they use for filler (because it certainly can't be called humor) in between broadcasting sports.
This one is much newer ~ I believe this is from the 80's instead of the 70's!




It was called "Nancy Aerobics".

What is with the blonde wigs?
Who are they making fun of?
Are they trying to make fun of us (the USA) in the 80's?
That is not necessary.
We make fun of ourselves in the 80's.
All the time.
Who thinks this is entertaining?
It's kind of scary.
But in the long run reminds me of US programs...
The ones that embarrass me.
You know, all the "reality TV".
What is real about a bunch of chicks living in a mansion fighting for "an elegible bachelor"?
Yep, that's real ~ happened all the time in my old neighborhood.

Dairy Licks

So La Paz is sort of known as a place "where cruisers dreams die".
A place where cruisers get stuck and never leave.
Sound familiar? Oh no wait, we chose to move and live here. We aren't stuck.
A place where people find they are not boat-compatible or spouse-compatible.
So they get stuck or leave or leave their boat to become:
A DAIRY LICKED!
A derelict.












The mast goes.
The sails go.
The electronics if there ever were any mysteriously disappear.
The pelicans move aboard.
These boats (in my opinion) become a hazard.
When did someone last check the anchor or mooring?
If a hurricane comes and one of these breaks loose, who will be responsible for the damage the dairy licked causes?
How would you even find the owner?
Oh ok, we will just go after the pelicans, as the boat now belongs to the pelicans.
I'm sure the pelicans have boat insurance.
No worries!



At some point these should just get chopped up, burned, buried, made into a reef, something, anything but left to rot in the bay.

And besides, they take up valuable anchoring space.
They are eyesores.
They smell of pelican poop.
The are probably full of water and breeding mosquitos.

Take some responsibility for your crap folks!