[Question] Favorite olympic moments?

Jon Newman · 20-02-2010, 03:39 AM

By far, my favorite moments of the Olympics this year are the snowboarders that sing with their iPods on prior to (and during) their runs. I'm serious.

My second is the story of the men's short form figure skating--specifically, the story that nailing the basics is worth more than nailing a quad and that those that nail the quad disagree.

**Diane** · 20-02-2010, 03:45 AM

Sidney Crosby nailing that shoot-out in the game with the Swiss.

**nari** · 20-02-2010, 06:20 AM

Haven't watched much at all, but was impressed with 23 yo Torah Bright's gold - almost a local girl, living about 1 hour away from here.

Nari

**Bas Asselbergs** · 20-02-2010, 04:54 PM

Yeah, for me snowboarders are a pleasure to watch - there is still an irreverence, fun and enthousiasm about them that seems to have disappeared from so many other sports. Except for skeleton-ers and lugers - they are cool too. Crazy, but cool.

**EricM** · 20-02-2010, 07:37 PM

Gretzky being hauled through the streets of Vancouver in the back of a pickup with a burnt out headlight. In the rain.

PYOGAT · 20-02-2010, 10:33 PM

Snowboarders singing with their ipods

...crosscountry skiers...short track skaters...amazing races

**Bas Asselbergs** · 21-02-2010, 01:20 AM

How about the cross-country skier - fell in a ditch, broke four ribs, had a pneumothorax, and the next day went through two heats and skied to a bronze medal in the final. Wow.

**Diane** · 21-02-2010, 01:22 AM

And all without pain meds. Tough cookie.

PYOGAT · 21-02-2010, 03:28 AM

Bas...She did it in the same day. WOW...WOW...

Jon Newman · 21-02-2010, 04:41 AM

The person that says "reaady" before the speed skaters start. Reaady. I can't stop saying it. Reaady.

**Bas Asselbergs** · 21-02-2010, 02:11 PM

Same day. WOW indeed.

Jon, we had the same experience here - we kept repeating his reaady. Then he seems to fall asleep for four seconds, startles himself awake and pulls the trigger. He is narcoleptic, I'm sure.

Jon Newman · 21-02-2010, 02:35 PM

He also seems to adjust the duration of the word for the length of the track. Reaady for long track speed skaters is much longer than reaady for short track speed skaters. A poet.

**John W** · 22-02-2010, 03:08 PM

Apollo Ohno's ideomotive yawn prior to his races.

Man, can that guy yawn!

garydiny · 22-02-2010, 03:58 PM

Canada vs. USA in men's hockey. Hoping there is another game in teh medal round (for the gold).

Same end result would be satisfactory for me

Truly best is my 3.5 year old daughters interest in virtually all the events. "I want to do that too" aerial skiing and snowboard cross. My wife cringes at trips to the ER from just the thought.

Gary

**Diane** · 23-02-2010, 06:21 AM

Ice dance. I'm updating my fave. Definitely ice dance, as of 15 minutes ago.

Jon Newman · 24-02-2010, 07:30 PM

Is the staff office the "kiss and cry area" for PTs?

**Diane** · 24-02-2010, 08:09 PM

What do you mean Jon?

smith · 24-02-2010, 09:22 PM

I like the East German? ice skater a few years back. You know the one with all the feathers

. Tonya H. comes to mind also. That's when sport meant something.

**Diane** · 25-02-2010, 03:08 AM

Not a favourite moment, just a couple observations about hockey, which I normally never watch but what the heck, it's the Olympics, so...

1. The US (men's) goalie is outstanding.

2. It's mostly a spitting contest. It should be called horkey.

Jon Newman · 25-02-2010, 03:26 AM

Kiss and cry. It's a loose analogy if there is one at all.

**Diane** · 25-02-2010, 03:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon Newman

Kiss and cry. It's a loose analogy if there is one at all.

Ah... got it.

Thanks.

**Bas Asselbergs** · 25-02-2010, 04:20 AM

Am not a hockeyfan normally, but for the first time ever, my wife and I watched a game. And what a game...7-3.
And the women sledders: Gold and silver.
And Clara Hughes - another bronze and the ONLY person EVER to win both Summer and Winter Olympic medals.
Well done, small country of mine.

**Diane** · 25-02-2010, 04:28 AM

On a percapita basis we're doing great medal wise. And the Norwegians... ? They have what.. 5 million people or something and gobs of medals..

There was another ~~bronze~~ silver in short track you forgot to mention Bas.

**Diane** · 25-02-2010, 05:32 AM

Another gold for Aus - Lasila leaping from a ski jump, twisting three times in the air, landing on her feet. Pretty cool.

I chuckle seeing the hay bales sticking out a bit from under the rainsoaked snow on Cypress.

Jon Newman · 27-02-2010, 02:55 AM

Olympic tip: If you want to increase the odds that you'll beat the person next to you in snowboard cross or ski cross, try wearing lycra for your outfit before your competition decides to.

**John W** · 01-03-2010, 03:31 AM

That was one of the most exciting and high-level hockey games-sporting events, for that matter- that I've ever seen.

Congrats to the Canucks. We'll get ya in 2014!

**Diane** · 01-03-2010, 04:04 AM

John, the guy who was head of the Van. Olym. Cmtt., John Furlong, is Irish. He's been in Can for a long time. Just thought you might like that, you being Irish and everything.

garydiny · 01-03-2010, 05:25 AM

Congrats to Canada on a fantastic Gold medal hockey game!!!!

Gary

**Frédéric** · 01-03-2010, 05:58 AM

Go Canada Go!
Go Sidney Go!
Record number of gold medals in one Winter Olympic by a Country (14).

**Diane** · 01-03-2010, 06:12 AM

There were things I learned watching Olympics that I never knew, not being a sport fan ordinarily.
Canada doesn't call curlers, "curlers." Apparently they are called "rock stars."
Half the players on the US hockey team were Canadian.
I think it should be renamed "horkey" because of all the spitting involved.

All the helium moose and giant beavers and Mounties on rolling carts were a bit over le top. I thought Michael Buble was great though.

Where was Celine? She never showed up.

**Bas Asselbergs** · 01-03-2010, 01:07 PM

Thank god she didn't.
The whole mountie thing? Great "poking fun at ourselves" theme - right from the start with the "faulty hydraulics" revisited. Everything considered "Canadian" was presented with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Fun party.

20-02-2010, 03:39 AM	#1
Jon Newman Enjoy a moment of whimsy Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,024 Thanks: 5 Thanked 55 Times in 41 Posts	Favorite olympic moments? By far, my favorite moments of the Olympics this year are the snowboarders that sing with their iPods on prior to (and during) their runs. I'm serious. My second is the story of the men's short form figure skating--specifically, the story that nailing the basics is worth more than nailing a quad and that those that nail the quad disagree. __________________ "I did a small amount of web-based research, and what I found is disturbing"--Bob Morris

20-02-2010, 03:45 AM	#2
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,676 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,197 Times in 1,571 Posts	Sidney Crosby nailing that shoot-out in the game with the Swiss. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

20-02-2010, 04:54 PM	#4
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,695 Thanks: 841 Thanked 485 Times in 234 Posts	Yeah, for me snowboarders are a pleasure to watch - there is still an irreverence, fun and enthousiasm about them that seems to have disappeared from so many other sports. Except for skeleton-ers and lugers - they are cool too. Crazy, but cool. __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

20-02-2010, 07:37 PM	#5
EricM Arbiter Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Nanaimo, BC Age: 39 Posts: 1,809 Thanks: 1 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Gretzky being hauled through the streets of Vancouver in the back of a pickup with a burnt out headlight. In the rain. __________________ Eric Matheson, PT

20-02-2010, 10:33 PM	#6
PYOGAT Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Rhinelander WI Posts: 86 Thanks: 55 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Snowboarders singing with their ipods...crosscountry skiers...short track skaters...amazing races __________________ "For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them." Aldous Huxley

20-02-2010, 06:20 AM	#3
nari NeuroNut Evangelist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: ACT Aust Posts: 7,681 Thanks: 707 Thanked 234 Times in 168 Posts	Haven't watched much at all, but was impressed with 23 yo Torah Bright's gold - almost a local girl, living about 1 hour away from here. Nari

21-02-2010, 01:20 AM	#7
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,695 Thanks: 841 Thanked 485 Times in 234 Posts	How about the cross-country skier - fell in a ditch, broke four ribs, had a pneumothorax, and the next day went through two heats and skied to a bronze medal in the final. Wow. __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

21-02-2010, 01:22 AM	#8
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,676 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,197 Times in 1,571 Posts	And all without pain meds. Tough cookie. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

21-02-2010, 03:28 AM	#9
PYOGAT Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Rhinelander WI Posts: 86 Thanks: 55 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Bas...She did it in the same day. WOW...WOW... __________________ "For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them." Aldous Huxley

21-02-2010, 04:41 AM	#10
Jon Newman Enjoy a moment of whimsy Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,024 Thanks: 5 Thanked 55 Times in 41 Posts	The person that says "reaady" before the speed skaters start. Reaady. I can't stop saying it. Reaady. __________________ "I did a small amount of web-based research, and what I found is disturbing"--Bob Morris

21-02-2010, 02:11 PM	#11
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,695 Thanks: 841 Thanked 485 Times in 234 Posts	Same day. WOW indeed. Jon, we had the same experience here - we kept repeating his reaady. Then he seems to fall asleep for four seconds, startles himself awake and pulls the trigger. He is narcoleptic, I'm sure. __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

21-02-2010, 02:35 PM	#12
Jon Newman Enjoy a moment of whimsy Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,024 Thanks: 5 Thanked 55 Times in 41 Posts	He also seems to adjust the duration of the word for the length of the track. Reaady for long track speed skaters is much longer than reaady for short track speed skaters. A poet. __________________ "I did a small amount of web-based research, and what I found is disturbing"--Bob Morris

22-02-2010, 03:08 PM	#13
John W Harmless creampuff Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New Orleans, LA Age: 48 Posts: 4,643 Thanks: 619 Thanked 966 Times in 436 Posts	Apollo Ohno's ideomotive yawn prior to his races. Man, can that guy yawn! __________________ John Ware, PT Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists "Nothing can bring a man peace but the triumph of principles." -R.W. Emerson “If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.” -The Analects of Confucius, Book 13, Verse 3

22-02-2010, 03:58 PM	#14
garydiny Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Madison, WI Age: 41 Posts: 309 Thanks: 47 Thanked 27 Times in 15 Posts	Canada vs. USA in men's hockey. Hoping there is another game in teh medal round (for the gold). Same end result would be satisfactory for me Truly best is my 3.5 year old daughters interest in virtually all the events. "I want to do that too" aerial skiing and snowboard cross. My wife cringes at trips to the ER from just the thought. Gary

23-02-2010, 06:21 AM	#15
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,676 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,197 Times in 1,571 Posts	Ice dance. I'm updating my fave. Definitely ice dance, as of 15 minutes ago. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

24-02-2010, 07:30 PM	#16
Jon Newman Enjoy a moment of whimsy Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,024 Thanks: 5 Thanked 55 Times in 41 Posts	Is the staff office the "kiss and cry area" for PTs? __________________ "I did a small amount of web-based research, and what I found is disturbing"--Bob Morris

24-02-2010, 08:09 PM	#17
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,676 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,197 Times in 1,571 Posts	What do you mean Jon? __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

24-02-2010, 09:22 PM	#18
smith Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Age: 55 Posts: 539 Thanks: 0 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts	I like the East German? ice skater a few years back. You know the one with all the feathers . Tonya H. comes to mind also. That's when sport meant something.

25-02-2010, 03:08 AM	#19
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,676 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,197 Times in 1,571 Posts	Not a favourite moment, just a couple observations about hockey, which I normally never watch but what the heck, it's the Olympics, so... 1. The US (men's) goalie is outstanding. 2. It's mostly a spitting contest. It should be called horkey. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

25-02-2010, 03:26 AM	#20
Jon Newman Enjoy a moment of whimsy Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,024 Thanks: 5 Thanked 55 Times in 41 Posts	Kiss and cry. It's a loose analogy if there is one at all. __________________ "I did a small amount of web-based research, and what I found is disturbing"--Bob Morris

25-02-2010, 04:20 AM	#22
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,695 Thanks: 841 Thanked 485 Times in 234 Posts	Am not a hockeyfan normally, but for the first time ever, my wife and I watched a game. And what a game...7-3. And the women sledders: Gold and silver. And Clara Hughes - another bronze and the ONLY person EVER to win both Summer and Winter Olympic medals. Well done, small country of mine. __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

25-02-2010, 04:28 AM	#23
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,676 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,197 Times in 1,571 Posts	On a percapita basis we're doing great medal wise. And the Norwegians... ? They have what.. 5 million people or something and gobs of medals.. There was another ~~bronze~~ silver in short track you forgot to mention Bas. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire Last edited by Diane; 25-02-2010 at 04:38 AM.

25-02-2010, 05:32 AM	#24
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,676 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,197 Times in 1,571 Posts	Another gold for Aus - Lasila leaping from a ski jump, twisting three times in the air, landing on her feet. Pretty cool. I chuckle seeing the hay bales sticking out a bit from under the rainsoaked snow on Cypress. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

27-02-2010, 02:55 AM	#25
Jon Newman Enjoy a moment of whimsy Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,024 Thanks: 5 Thanked 55 Times in 41 Posts	Olympic tip: If you want to increase the odds that you'll beat the person next to you in snowboard cross or ski cross, try wearing lycra for your outfit before your competition decides to. __________________ "I did a small amount of web-based research, and what I found is disturbing"--Bob Morris

01-03-2010, 03:31 AM	#26
John W Harmless creampuff Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New Orleans, LA Age: 48 Posts: 4,643 Thanks: 619 Thanked 966 Times in 436 Posts	That was one of the most exciting and high-level hockey games-sporting events, for that matter- that I've ever seen. Congrats to the Canucks. We'll get ya in 2014! __________________ John Ware, PT Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists "Nothing can bring a man peace but the triumph of principles." -R.W. Emerson “If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.” -The Analects of Confucius, Book 13, Verse 3

01-03-2010, 04:04 AM	#27
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,676 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,197 Times in 1,571 Posts	John, the guy who was head of the Van. Olym. Cmtt., John Furlong, is Irish. He's been in Can for a long time. Just thought you might like that, you being Irish and everything. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

01-03-2010, 05:25 AM	#28
garydiny Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Madison, WI Age: 41 Posts: 309 Thanks: 47 Thanked 27 Times in 15 Posts	Congrats to Canada on a fantastic Gold medal hockey game!!!! Gary

01-03-2010, 05:58 AM	#29
Frédéric Swaying against the breeze Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Prévost Québec Age: 37 Posts: 1,880 Thanks: 93 Thanked 122 Times in 57 Posts	Go Canada Go! Go Sidney Go! Record number of gold medals in one Winter Olympic by a Country (14). __________________ Frédéric Wellens, pht «We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.» «Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. » Friedrich Nietzsche www.physioaxis.ca chroniquesdedouleur blog

01-03-2010, 06:12 AM	#30
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,676 Thanks: 1,490 Thanked 3,197 Times in 1,571 Posts	There were things I learned watching Olympics that I never knew, not being a sport fan ordinarily. Canada doesn't call curlers, "curlers." Apparently they are called "rock stars." Half the players on the US hockey team were Canadian. I think it should be renamed "horkey" because of all the spitting involved. All the helium moose and giant beavers and Mounties on rolling carts were a bit over le top. I thought Michael Buble was great though. Where was Celine? She never showed up. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

01-03-2010, 01:07 PM	#31
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,695 Thanks: 841 Thanked 485 Times in 234 Posts	Thank god she didn't. The whole mountie thing? Great "poking fun at ourselves" theme - right from the start with the "faulty hydraulics" revisited. Everything considered "Canadian" was presented with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Fun party. __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

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