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Let's catch team handball fever.
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They make up the rules as they go along? All right! Calvinball makes it to the Olympiks! Let's hear it from all you Bill Watterson fans out there!
Posted by: Omniskeptic | July 31, 2012 at 12:38 PM
The only medal round tickets we could get at the 96 Olympics was for the mens team handball and we loved it! More violent than hockey and no pads. I think the penalty for ripping out and eating your opponents beating heart is 1 minute.
Posted by: fivver | July 31, 2012 at 01:21 PM
Ah, team beer drinking !
Posted by: Clankie | July 31, 2012 at 01:28 PM
More "C" vegetables: Chopped Spinach, Cut Green Beans, Curlicue Potatoes, Cooked Tomatoes, and Chives.
Posted by: Ralph | July 31, 2012 at 01:31 PM
Yep, still the best sports reporting around.
Posted by: Head_Smashed_In | July 31, 2012 at 01:35 PM
colt45, coors, corona.... oh, vegetables??
nevermind
Posted by: ligirl | July 31, 2012 at 01:46 PM
Cucumber's a fruit, man. Got seeds.
Posted by: padraig | July 31, 2012 at 02:12 PM
Congress?
Posted by: Just Some Guy | July 31, 2012 at 02:36 PM
YEA!! Ralph, I would like to add coleslaw, and cake.
ligirl You are the best, in the beers category, I will now play your national anthem...Find a convenient box to stand on.
Posted by: MikeyVA | July 31, 2012 at 02:49 PM
Can we make them wear kilts?
Cress, Chinese Mallow, Cardashians...
Posted by: Ms. Flukey | July 31, 2012 at 02:50 PM
padraig, so are tomatoes but thank God they don't start with a C or we would be in trouble.
Posted by: MikeyVA | July 31, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Coconuts.
Posted by: Guin | July 31, 2012 at 03:28 PM
There's no Beer Man at baseball games in Miami? Granted, backpacks are not usually involved.
Posted by: mazar larry | July 31, 2012 at 03:40 PM
Darn, I missed chard. I thought it was Cher.
Posted by: HogsAteMySister | July 31, 2012 at 03:53 PM
OK, I've decided that I am now a fan of Australian Synchronized Swimmers. Toss a brolly on the wallaby and fetch me up a kookaburra sandwich, eh mate!
Posted by: padraig | July 31, 2012 at 04:20 PM
I believe that anyone trying to wear a backpack at an American event would miss the whole game before he cleared security.
"Handball" has a whole different meaning to the TSA.
Posted by: Steve | July 31, 2012 at 05:25 PM
Unfortunately, for the female Bloglits the fun is already over.
Posted by: padraig | July 31, 2012 at 06:45 PM
Dave said, "Sometimes, when they lose and they’re being stoic about it, I want to give them all a great big hug."
Dave, sometimes when you write something from the heart, I want to give you a great big hug, too. Thanks for the updates.
Also, according to the website, "The 22 Worst Town Names in the World," there are a few other places in the British Isles (and Ireland) that merit a look-see while you're there, or at least a mention. Enjoy!
Twatt, Orkney, Shetland Islands, Scotland
Muff, Ireland
Titty Hill, Sussex, England
Thong, Kent, England
Wetwang, Yorkshire, England
Cockup, Cumbria, England
Shitterton, Dorset, England
Posted by: Libby | July 31, 2012 at 07:09 PM
padraig, that is so NOT fair. Those poor men work so hard, practicing and training, in those itty bitty bathing suits and I can't see them? Who can I talk to about this?
Posted by: nursecindy | July 31, 2012 at 07:19 PM
Well, cindy, you can console yourself by watching the men's diving where the guys are in the habit of wearing what appear to be two eyepatches sewn together front to back. Plus there's that Brit kid that looks like he should be fronting a boy band somewhere.
Posted by: padraig | July 31, 2012 at 09:23 PM
Charo?
Posted by: ligirl | August 01, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Celeriac.(Apium graveolens var. rapaceum), also called turnip-rooted celery[3] or knob celery
Posted by: LeDud | August 01, 2012 at 10:49 AM