B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 23, 2010

He’s a ringer!

A sign when it’s time to retire your sport.

Isn’t that the scene from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, World????

Jim Backus, with the airplane???

It’s a sign of the spines.

But it’s the skier’s fault - not the design of the jump!!! (Even if we move the sign after the accident.)

The TV crew ewrected that sign.

Hey, he won five medals: gold, silver, bronze, iron and tin.

NOW I get it. I always wondered where that Olympics logo came from..

He’s a ring in.

This jump rated a “Five” on the ring-o-meter. Great jump!

Good Morning Grog(AKA BC13)!

How about that. he has combined ski jumping with biathlon and hit all 5 targets.

CRASH! And that’s why the Winter Olympics are a crashing bore.

(What’s with MS-NBC and all that curling coverage?! Is there some connection between that non-sport and leftist news coverage?)

Curling, like golf goes back to the elder days of Scottland. Teams play for a trophy called the Silver Broom.

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A perfect 10! Or 5…

I never knew that was a target event…

Five-holes-in-one! That doesn’t even compare with a birdie!

I honestly can’t even come up with a witty comment, laughing too hard imagining this happening for real like some kind of stunt on a variety program… :)

Love the comments so far today…. People are very “on” this morning!

love it!

…How about skeet jumping as a new event, has a nice ring to it…

the ‘agony of de feet’ (and the hands, and the head .. and . .)

YEAH!!!

Wow…Those sudden crosswinds will get you everytime!

Oh, those dirty rings.

Good morning, Lonewolf. You can cut it short to Grog.

He got five perfect targets in five rings! Bulleyes!

Better jumping the sign…then ‘jumping the shark’….

I miss the opening of ABC’s “Wide World Of Sports” with Eddie ‘the screaming eagle’ in the agony of defeat crashing and burning on the ski jump….

That wasn’t Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards (British ski-jumper, 1988 Olympics), that was Vinko Bogataj (Slovenian ski-jumper, 1970 Ski-Flying World Championships).

Eddie didn’t become famous for crashing, he became famous for coming in dead last by a wide margin. He was the first British ski-jumper, and he got to compete at the Olympics because he was the only British ski-jumper. After his notorious performance, the IOC introduced the “Eddie the Eagle Rule”, which “requires Olympic hopefuls to compete in international events and place in the top 30 percent or the top 50 competitors, whichever is the lesser” (from Wikipedia).

My bad fritzoid…thanks…..shoulda googled… At least you beat “you-knowitall-who” in correcting me..LOL…

Oh, I can be just as tiresome and pedantic as he, when the mood hits me…

Looks like it’s about to rain… (whistling a little tune)

boldyuma, the person in question has probably forgotten more than you’ll ever know. In fact, I suspect he’s forgotten more than HE ever knew, and is currently operating from a deficit.

Joe Doty, there is a comment (by me) waiting for you over in Birdbrains (February 21, the one about the lemmings) about this very matter. It’s not going to be easy reading, I think, but I hope you’ll take a look at it.

Really, I don’t think you see yourself as others see you, and that’s the problem. It’s not so much what you say as how you say it that annoys many of us here. And the more challenging thing is that your writtten “tone of voice” is not always the same. Sometimes it’s lucid and helpful, because you’re speaking to us; sometimes it’s not, because you’re speaking to yourself - and it shows.

As I’ve said before, I can make the very same mistake for the very same reason, and have done so - right here on Uclick. So I’m writing from a point of view of sympathy, not of antipathy.

pschearer, as a “militant centrist” ;) I’m not going to get involved in poltics here, but I couldn’t resist the pun: maybe leftist reporting likes curling so much because leftist politics are curling so many people’s hair?

(You may all groan now. Assassins may be hired down the street about five blocks, in the gray house on the right.)

Johanan Rakkav: Groan! :)