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hoover

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Sep 26, 2000, 8:02:38 PM9/26/00
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Oh give me a break!! Beach volleyball as a medal sport? Now if it was
NUDE beach volleyball with sumo wrestlers playing, that would be
different!


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SNUMBER6

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Sep 26, 2000, 9:51:24 PM9/26/00
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>Oh give me a break!! Beach volleyball as a medal sport? Now if it was
>NUDE beach volleyball with sumo wrestlers playing, that would be
>different!

Once in a while you do indeed come up with a good suggestion ...

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Tony Montana

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Sep 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM9/27/00
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So is walking, synchronized diving, and men's softball.

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Lizabeth

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Sep 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM9/27/00
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"Tony Montana" <ultramag...@PRODIGY.NET> wrote in message
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>
> So is walking, synchronized diving, and men's softball.
>
> hoover <mr_h...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:8qrdeq$ne9$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > Oh give me a break!! Beach volleyball as a medal sport? Now if it was
> > NUDE beach volleyball with sumo wrestlers playing, that would be
> > different!
> >

Let me get this straight...you'd only approve of beach volleyball as a medal
sport if it was played by FAT, NAKED GUYS?

Hoover, you scare me.

SNUMBER6

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Sep 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM9/27/00
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>From: "Lizabeth" <lizabeth-ju...@writeme.compostheap>

>Let me get this straight...you'd only approve of beach volleyball as a medal
>sport if it was played by FAT, NAKED GUYS?
>
>Hoover, you scare me.

I think he was just looking to help NBC's ratings ...

National Audio Visual Conservation Center

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Sep 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM9/27/00
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You don't LIKE the "governing body" rule? Me neither. I think the rule
is that the sport must have a "governing body" in at least 30 countries
to be an olympic sport. I see no particular reason, under this rule,
that Contract Bridge shouldn't be in the Olympics, along with Ballroom
Dancing and Beach Volleyball.

This "governing body rule" is also the reason a truly great sport like
lacrosse will never be in the Olympics unless the rule is changed or
modified. Ice Hockey got in, a half-century ago, because the USSR was
allowed to count their dozen-or-so subjugated "republics" as
"independent countries", simply by LYING.

Times have changed. For the Olympics to survive, the rules must be
changed. As is, it's now just a big moneymaking enterprise, more than
sporting challenge. Cities spend hundreds of millions lobbying to host
the Olys, and contractors get contracts worth virtually billions. Host
cities end up with venues that later torn down because there's no
financial incentive to maintain them, so the places that were bulldozed
down, including homes, streets and perfectly viable, older venues, are
replaced by open spaces for parking, and - you guessed it - newer, more
sterile homes and apartments.

The old snake that vanishes by swallowing its tail....

hoover

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Sep 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM9/27/00
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In article <%XkA5.26128$j6.53...@news1.rdc1.va.home.com>,

"Lizabeth" <lizabeth-ju...@writeme.compostheap> wrote:
>
> "Tony Montana" <ultramag...@PRODIGY.NET> wrote in message
> news:8qskna$33oq$1...@newssvr05-en0.news.prodigy.com...
> >
> > So is walking, synchronized diving, and men's softball.
> >
> > hoover <mr_h...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> > news:8qrdeq$ne9$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> > > Oh give me a break!! Beach volleyball as a medal sport? Now if
it was
> > > NUDE beach volleyball with sumo wrestlers playing, that would be
> > > different!
> > >
>
> Let me get this straight...you'd only approve of beach volleyball as
a medal
> sport if it was played by FAT, NAKED GUYS?
>
> Hoover, you scare me.

now come on Liz, wouldn't you watch that??

SNUMBER6

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Sep 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM9/27/00
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>From: National Audio Visual Conservation Center <culp...@erols.com>

> I see no particular reason, under this rule,
>that Contract Bridge shouldn't be in the Olympics, along with Ballroom
>Dancing and Beach Volleyball.

If you look at events in earlier Olympic Games ... you will see Art ... and
Sculpture ... and other Non-sports ... Although sculpture would be interesting
if one was allowed to attack the opposition ..

M

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Sep 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM9/27/00
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Tony Montana wrote:
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> So is walking, synchronized diving, and men's softball.

BAIT!!!! No men's softball you lousy fisherman.

Mike Masin


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