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Post by fred on Feb 4, 2008 16:40:16 GMT -6
The Giants won! The Giants won!
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Post by gocav76 on Feb 4, 2008 16:45:12 GMT -6
Tricia, You are correct Anett Poetszch of East Germany won that year. I always felt sorry for her, as she was soon pushed aside by Katarina Witt. Anett being from behind the Iron Curtain never had the chance to earn the "Big Money" like the American skaters. I hear she teaches skating in her hometown. You mentioned speed skating I remember Karen Enke from East Germany was a winner. I often wonder what happened to those skaters from East Germany. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMyaadPz4jA
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Post by Tricia on Feb 4, 2008 17:00:30 GMT -6
The Giants won! The Giants won! As long as they didn't re-sign Barry Bonds, of course they won!
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Post by Tricia on Feb 4, 2008 17:18:33 GMT -6
You have to worry about those Iron Curtain atheletes, really. A whole lot of crazy stuff went on in the pursuit of excellence ... but you can't argue with their successes. Amazing. It's funny how former East German Ingo Steuer is still having problems getting about the Civilised World with his pairs skaters ... all because he was some informant for the Stasi!
Ahhh, yes, Katarina from Karl Marx Stadt. Great name for a city!
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Post by gocav76 on Feb 4, 2008 17:27:00 GMT -6
Tricia, In 1984 when Katarina Witt won the Gold-I wrote her and she sent me a signed photo. Later when I was working at AT&T I handled a call from Scott Hamilton about his bill. I tried to conduct the call as a professional-but did chat a little.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Feb 4, 2008 17:29:59 GMT -6
Oh, do tell!
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Post by Tricia on Feb 4, 2008 17:38:45 GMT -6
1984 ... this is gonna date me, but I remember everyone calling her the East German Brooke Shields. I wonder if anything came between her and her Carmen uniform? Okay, that's from 1988 and Calgary ....
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Post by El Crab on Feb 5, 2008 1:32:24 GMT -6
Tricia, In 1984 when Katarina Witt won the Gold-I wrote her and she sent me a signed photo. Later when I was working at AT&T I handled a call from Scott Hamilton about his bill. I tried to conduct the call as a professional-but did chat a little. I once spoke to Wayne Knight, Seinfeld's Newman, for about 30 minutes while I worked for a cell phone company.
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Post by El Crab on Feb 5, 2008 1:33:37 GMT -6
Emily: Some are offended by figure skaters, not me mind you, but some. There is virtually nothing inoffensive to someone these days, to judge by the human rights tribunals and law suits. Cousin Gordie My parents were killed by figure skaters.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Feb 5, 2008 7:59:18 GMT -6
Golf killed my father.
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Post by BrokenSword on Feb 5, 2008 8:02:22 GMT -6
Grandma got run over by a reindeer.
Gordie 'kills' me alot of times too.
M
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Post by AZ Ranger on Feb 5, 2008 8:13:08 GMT -6
Ronald Reagan signed my high school off grounds permit when he was running for Governor of California.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Feb 5, 2008 8:16:44 GMT -6
Skipping school with a permit? Very clever. I wish I would have known you then. I could have used a few of those. . . .
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Post by Tricia on Feb 5, 2008 8:38:12 GMT -6
And the Cubbies are going to be the death of me .... and I'm almost quite certain they killed grandma.
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Post by harpskiddie on Feb 5, 2008 8:47:03 GMT -6
A few thoughts on this most super of all Tuesdays - it's PANCAKE DAY!!!
1. I now DETEST figure skaters. If you see breaking news later today that the Canadian figure skating team has been assassinated, you will know that it is just starting.
2. The Golf was notoriously unsafe, especially the ones made in Chile. Or maybe it was "made OF chili." Let me check my reference book.* Maybe it was a terrorist plot, after the colored alerts made them fearful of attempting to enter the U.S. disguised as Girl Scouts. Tell your other relatives to steer clear of Volkswagen.
3. It's "reindeer" not "raindeer" - RAINDEER live in British Columbia, and are rust-colored, which figures. So is everything else, except this year when it's all covered by snow [or ice, in the case of the Nechako River, where an attempt is being made to set a new record for ice jam length - it's now some 30 km, which translates into something on the order of 20 miles, give or take. DeRudio and I were out there the other day. we were at the Prince George end of the jam, gazing contemplatively (is that a word?) up the jagged, frozen expanse of ice, when he grew excited, and began jumping up and down and gesticulating wildly (wait a minute, Heidi has just said that the South will play a crucial part in today's events - do they eat pancakes down there?) and pointing as well, exclaiming loudly: "Look Gordie - the guy on the right of that trio of guys down at the other end of the ice jam is wearing mismatched mittens!!!" "Can you tell the colors?" I asked. "One's a sort of chartreuse (is that a word?) and the other is a pale pink coral!!" he almost shouted, "and the string joining them is gray!!" "Sheesh - I already spotted that," I replied, "It's only twenty miles."]
4. Ah. Ronald Reagan. I was a proud foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution, and the buzz word was "time-lines" [much like it is around here]. "And what would you do to correct the seeming problems in the current economy, Mr.Candidate?" "Milestones is what he said, and time-lines was the buzzword. I am a leader, and I was a leader in the Reagan, no a foot soldier, time-lines was the buzzword. Does anyone else hear that buzzing?"
Gordie MC
*The Harper Brothers Dictionary, newly expanded to include the Harper Brothers Encyclopedia and the Harper Brothers Atlas Of The Known World and The Universe including Sheboygan and Wilkes-Barre
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