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Blog Guy, what would you say is your best sport, personally? Rock climbing, Ironman? Fight Club?
I’d have to say extreme napping.
Napping. You mean like just closing your eyes and sleeping?
It’s so much more than that. Oh, any idiot can just flop into bed at noon and call it a nap, but the competitors are always finding new places, mapping new napping.
Look at these pros in the photos. The guy napping under an armored vehicle, people snoozing on horseback, a bride asleep at her wedding.
Those are some very serious nappers, I do have to admit.
I myself take several naps a day to keep in shape, and I name them, military-style. Nap Alpha, Nap Bravo, Nap Charlie…
But surely there is no organized competitive napping, is there?
Think again. In September I’m heading to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the annual Snoozapalooza Invitational. That’s where the Olympics-quality nappers show their best stuff.
I had no idea it was so elaborate, Blog Guy. So how do you rate your chances this year? Think you’ll be going for the Snoozapalooza gold?
Me? No, I can’t win. The Snoozapalooza is ALWAYS won by a cat.
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Top: A British Army soldier of Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, rests under his Jackal armored vehicle during a short break at a Afghan National Police (ANP) check point outside the town of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, July 11, 2011. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
Right: Riders practice for a show on their horses at a farm in Kaposmero, Hungary, August 3, 2011. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
Left: A bride takes a nap as newlyweds attend a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Sun Moon University in Asan, south of Seoul, October 10, 2010. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
Bottom left: Mooshu, an older neighborhood cat who has lived most of his sixteen years in the Lanikai section of Kailua, Hawaii, takes a cat nap on a skateboard belonging to his owner’s children, July 5, 2004. REUTERS/Lucy Pemoni
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“Cat nap on a skateboard”. Really? That’s what we’ve been reduced to?
As for the top pic – #1 rule is to sleep when you can, ’cause you never know when your next chance to do so will be.
I’d love to write some witty comment, but it will have to wait until after my nap.
That cat napping is beyond precious.. I say, Gold well deserved!!
So the napping on horseback photo is a phony – the caption clearly says they’re practicing for a show – So they’re only practice napping….
The horseback photo looks like a corollary to planking.
@Moonshine – I think you misunderstood the type of show they were practicing for. They’re demonstrating the “Pony Power Nap” portion of the Cirque de Snooze, kind of like the IceCapades for the Extreme Napping professionals. They’re followed by a bunch of orange tabbys doing the Garfield “Nap Attack” segment – a real crowd pleaser!
Equestrian Resting: when it’s time to hit the hay.
Does the outgoing Nap Champ retire?
Jazz, but of course Garfield is the King of Snooze..
When he gets a nap attack, Shakira sings “Whenever, wherever, we are meant to be together..”
Dont ask me how Shakira popped up into this conversation, just know that I am gonna be humming that song all day…
My captions to the above photos:
- Is it an Afghan National Police (ANP) checkpoint, or a National Afghan Police (NAP) checkpoint…?
- What do you get if you sleep on a horse? Nightmares.
- What do you call a nap during a wedding? A naptial
ceremony.
- How do you stop a cat nap? Catnip, of course.
I can haz skatezzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Good one Nosmo.
so cute cat
no no no planking is done on your stomach….
wait, is the sleeping bride wired? now that’s a serious band name—–wired sleeping bride; what is she wired to??? hmmmm
wapeddove, you remind me of a band name I once thought of; “Wired in a Weird Way”.