Comments on: Are you ready, athletes? Blow and go!

By: Malteser

Malteser — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:32:49 +0000

…And on a similar topic, I once heard of this fellow who wanted to swim across the English channel. Having completed three fourths of the way, he gave up and swam back to England.

By: Malteser

Malteser — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:32:07 +0000

Thanks for the update fwd. So assuming she completed half of her bi-athlon, what would you call that?

By: fwd079

fwd079 — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:01:06 +0000

She was forced to give up, Malteser, I heard.

By: Malteser

Malteser — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:24:27 +0000

If she gives up mid-way, they’d call it a bye-athlon.

By: Shra

Shra — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:13:06 +0000

I like your idea, much much better, One!
Oh, and I get fresh meat!!
BmwRider, you should have done some research… zapppppp!

By: Onedoor

Onedoor — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:35:45 +0000

Is the Blow and Go like a Stop and Shop for buglers?

Oh, for a Bathlon: where the music is playing in the background and the two parts consist of a bath with choice of bubbles, book or glass of wine. Sigh.

By: AllThatJazz

AllThatJazz — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:19:34 +0000

Doff of the straw boater for the effort, but:

Playing the bugle
before record breaking feat:
Should have saved her breath.

By: FriscoJohn

FriscoJohn — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:58:55 +0000

Blog Guy: Please amend my limerick to:

Diana started with a bugle, not a tuba.
Her crossing to Florida from Cuba.
Alas, she had to stop mid-stream.
Her swim feat extreme.
Or she might have ended in Aruba.

Don’t want to offend the brass.

Now she’s resting enroute.
Hung up her swimsuit.
Defeated by sea swell.
On talk shows she’ll tell
Of her latest aqua pursuit.

By: iflydaplanes

iflydaplanes — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:30:02 +0000

“Honestly, Blog Guy, I don’t know why I come back here to this crapfest of stupidity!” See that’s why blows my mind. A crapfest of stupidity yet there are still things too stupid to put on this blog!

http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/20 11/08/06/sometimes-the-blog-just-writes- itself/

Imagine the level this blog could elevate to if only the lines were erased from the sand!

By: rcbasler

rcbasler — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:27:12 +0000

I suppose this is some kind of trap, right Dave. Oh well:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/0 9/us-cuba-usa-swimmer-idUSTRE7780ZL20110 809