I am a huge fan of shuffle board. There really is nothing better than drinking too much shitty fizzy yellow beer and challenging your friends to the indoor version of horseshoes. My love for shuffleboard while true should be no reflection of my ability, but it is the reason for the long paper chain I am about to hang throughout my house.
There are 701 chain links representing the number of days left to the 2010 Winter Olympics and the multiple colors represent the diversity of the games. So what does that have to do with Shuffleboard? Curling. Up until the 2006 Winter Olympics, I believed that there were no sports I could possibly relate to as a beer drinking, non-athletic, sloth of a human being. That is until I discovered the sport of ice kings. Curling is the beer drinkers answer to the Olympic games!
There is more good news my friends. As you are well aware, the Summer Olympics will be taking place in Beijing this year. China, of course, is a communist country and they have made it clear that many things available in the free world will not be allowed within the walls of the Forbidden City. Among these items are Bibles and personal food. This is a big deal for many of the members of the US Olympic Bicycle Team, many of whom need Plums (and of course the nutrients inside the luscious purple fruit) to be able to climb hills and pedal for hours on end. The Plastic Spoon has obtained this highly classified photograph of the Russian team and their solution to this restriction.
As you can clearly see, they will be smuggling in their own plums for this years games.
Take that China!
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