Silly Olympic Sports (and the reasoning behind them)

[Smitty]

Curling

Imagine the scene:

Minnesota in winter (or any other Scandavian-ish locale)...Huts are up, heaters are fired, holes have been bored, poles are baited and on their respective holes...Bored men finished with their task settle in for a beer while waiting for the Vienna Sausages to warm up on the heater...

Bob: "You bring your sticks?"

Ralph: "Nope, just the wife's broom...You bring your skates?"

Bob: "Nope. Suppose you forgot the Puck too."

Ralph: "I'm bored..."

Bob: "Hey, Fred hasn't got his hole drilled yet, gimme the cooler!"

Ralph: "Why?"

Bob: "Betcha we can hit him with it..."

Seems to me that it's kind of how Bull Riding got started...Bunch of drunk cowboys sitting around one night and one said "Betcha can't do this..."

And so another sport is born...(As well as a big heads up to either duck or call an ambulance if you hear that in Texas!)

Smitty

EDIT: or if you hear that it's Quayle season

 

[Norie]

Smitty

Curling was actually invented by a bunch of drunk Scotsmen trying to skim
large boulders across a frozen loch.

EDIT: Oh, and we invented the luge as well, but used plastic bread trays
instead of the tea trays these lightweights use in the Olympics.

 

[Smitty]

Curling was actually invented by a bunch of drunk Scotsmen trying to skim large boulders across a frozen loch.

EDIT: Oh, and we invented the luge as well, but used plastic bread trays
instead of the tea trays these lightweights use in the Olympics.

Ahh, the bastards at Ben Nevis get their revenge eh? lol

Smitty

So is it legal for my wife to make me watch ping pong (sorry, "Table Tennis") just because she's sick?

 

[Joe4]

Speaking of ice fishing, when are they going to make that an Olympic sport?

Not that it is really a sport, but maybe then I would have a chance to be an Olympian!