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What is with all the terrible hand offs? this year? Both US teams dropped the baton yesterday, the GB men's handed off to far out of zone. Crazy.
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
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My Paranoid Hubby wrote: What is with all the terrible hand offs?
How successful have you been at it? 
led mike
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I suspect there is more at work here. It will eventually come out that the Chinese have doctored the batons so that some are 'stickier' than others. Clearly this was an attempt to manipulate the results. 
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
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On closer inspection it turns out that the batons used were actually the female chinese gymnasts.
Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
-Emily Dickinson
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STOP!!!!!!!!!
I'm not supposed to laugh this loud on Mondays...
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There was an enormously powerful electromagnet controlled by the Chinese, the GB batons had neodymium magnets in them - it was just a case of hitting the switch at the right time 
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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One of my favorite movies is Stick It which discusses how hard judging is in gymnastics. It's actually really funny and has a killer soundtrack.
At the end the girls fix the winners by choosing who is the best and everyone else scratches.
I was watching last night and guess who won the uneven bars? Gold medalist Nastia Liukin playing herself. The movie takes place in Texas; they must have shot it there because she lives there.
I didn't catch any other names but next time it's on I will watch.
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looking thru the credits, I recognized Carly Patterson who was on the US Team in Athens and won the Gold in the all-around. The were dozens of girls listed as "IG Classic / Neutrogena National Gymnastics Championship Gymnast"
Bart Connor is also listed...
Steve
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cool. I had two daughter gymnasts, though not at that level.
still some of the commentary is applies.
I have three sons who play ice hockey. They go out on the ice for 10 hours/week to get ready for games that are 60-90 minutes long (depends if things get stupid).
My daughters would practice for 12-20 hours/week. Every couple of months, thew would get their chance to show their stuff:
beam: 3 minutes
bars: 1.5
vault: 15 sec?
floor: 2 minutes
total: 7 minutes!!!!!!
That's it. Nothing against the hockey players (or football...) but gymnasts are in their own league.
Charlie Gilley
Will program for food...
Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
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Gary Glitter was glad to get a release date!
She was 10, but looked 12 when she put makeup on.
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"The production of useful work is strictly limited by the laws of thermodynamics. The production of useless work seems to be unlimited." - Donald E. Simanek
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Yeeeuk! But amusing. Wish I'd kept the pictures I was sent yestrady: especially the apology from Adobe explaining the diference between a pdf file and a pae... well you get the picture.
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Dalek Dave wrote: but looked 12 when she put makeup on.
How disappointing for him. 
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Whose Gary Glitter ... And I were to infer from context I have a joke so ribald I cannot post it under my real name. (Actually, 4 or 5)
Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
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Email it to me
I will then let you know what I think!
By the way...
This is Gary Glitter[^]
One of his big hits was D'ya wanna be in my gang?
Er No, Gary, thank you but seriously, No
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"The production of useful work is strictly limited by the laws of thermodynamics. The production of useless work seems to be unlimited." - Donald E. Simanek
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Dalek Dave wrote: One of his big hits was D'ya wanna be in my gang?
Er No, Gary, thank you but seriously, No
Yeah, I'll pass, too 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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"I love you love ... you're only two love...".
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Thumbs Up for that!
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"The production of useful work is strictly limited by the laws of thermodynamics. The production of useless work seems to be unlimited." - Donald E. Simanek
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Dalek Dave wrote: She was 10, but looked 12 when she put makeup on.
Another variation: "She was 12, but had the body of a 10 year old."
QRZ? de WAØTTN
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Dalek Dave wrote: She was 10, but looked 12 when she put makeup on.
Are we talking about Chinese gymnasts again?
Jon
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Wow sounds brilliant
In the article: Previous wireless power systems consisted basically of firing lightning bolts from sending to receiving units.
Sounds safe
Regards,
--Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - UncyclopediaIntroduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
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Yeah I saw the part about "...basically firing lightning bolts..." and thought that was pretty funny.
Mike
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Yeah I agree with you I'm not sure I want the extra waves in the air irradiating everything anyway. But it seemed pretty odd to me that Intel came up with it??
Mike
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