Friday Funnies

Can't explain it, but for some reason I had a dream about watching this cartoon last night. I've always been a big Goofy fan, and I still drink water from the Goofy mug I bought nearly 20 years ago. So on this cold, wintry day in DC, Let's all spend a few minutes laughing at Goofy in the Olympics from 1942.

Friday Funnies

I love the Olympics. The wife and I have been spending much of the last two weeks watching the Olympic trials, getting to know names and faces of athletes so we know who to cheer for in a few weeks when the London Games begin. Get me random athletes competing in even more random sports all for the love of country, and I'm sold. And as many of my friends know, I have a not-so-secret desire to quit everything and become the next great Olympic curler for the United States. Or any country for that matter. Hell, I'll join any nation that wants to channel this passion and let me become a curler. Sign me up, Zimbabwe!

I can at least say that I would try harder and put forth a better effort than this jackass. I vacillated over whether to make this an Idiot of the Day post, but I found myself laughing more than facepalming. With that, I bestow upon you the joy that is the lest competent hurdler ever. If they picked a drunken cat from the crowd I think it would have fared better.

America, F*ck Yea!

I was feeling a tad blah still about Tuesday's elections, and I needed a pick-me-up. And it needed to make fun of American Exceptionalism, because after all the Tea Partiers that got voted in, I wasn't feeling like our country was that exceptional, other than needing to be clobbered by a steel pipe.

So first I turned to Team America, which did a pretty good job, but I wanted to skip the laughter and just feel good about things. And what better place than listening to James Earl Jones talk about how the Olympics kick ass. Yeah, it's a little weird, but the intro videos they've been doing for the Olympics have been pretty damn good, even though they did dump James for some schlub and then have Costas take a turn or two. Bleh. Stick with Vader, pay him whatever he wants, he makes it better.

Anyway, here's some of the videos I am talking about. I know I'm in the minority of people who devoutly love the Olympics and watch as many minutes of it as possible (while secretly pining to become the next great American curler).

2000 Sydney Olympics (in my opinion the best one they ever did; they struck lightning first and never got it back).



2002 Salt Lake Olympics (nice Jim McKay opening, and wild to look back and think this Olympics happened just 5 months after 9/11).

This 2004 Athens one is probably the runner-up to the Sydney one. Won't lie, 40% of my vote is because of Vader again.

Friday Funnies XXI

Tonight begins one of my favorite television programs ever ... the Olympics. I love the Olympics. More importantly, I have been convinced for the last for years that if I could get some of my buddies to buy into it, I really think we could kick some serious ass in Curling. I've been a Curling fan for ages, and I think it's the mix of strategy and it being a game that is really a gigantic version of shuffleboard. And my friend Douglass and I kill at some shuffleboard. Dan and Kelly aren't slouches, either. Which really makes me think that with a minimal amount of effort, we could kill it. The US Team that won Silver four years ago had only been playing Curling for a couple years and had full-time jobs working at Home Depots or some shit, so lord knows I could find the time to kick some ass and rule the family gatherings when I stroll in with an Olympic medal around my neck.

Anyway, in honor of the Olympics starting tonight, here is a clip of a classic Monty Python sketch of the Idiot Olympics.