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NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL by Peter Nolan Smith

July 24, 2013 – 4:12 pm

WRITTEN 2011 Outside the Pattaya Tai Big C Shopping Center there was a skateboard club. Some Thai kids tested out tricks on rails and ramps. Some were good. I tried a few moves to be surprised by an unintentional wheelie by putting too much weight on my back foot. The Thai kids applauded my move […]

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Family Olympics 1912 – 2010

February 24, 2010 – 9:27 pm

The 1912 Summer Olympics were held in Stockholm. My paternal grandfather was scheduled to compete as a pole vaulter for Canada. He broke a leg during practice. Harry Babcock set a new Olympic record with 3.95 meters. The USA won the gold and the silver and the bronze. Two years later the world was at […]

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A Fistful of Freedom Fries

February 17, 2010 – 8:05 pm

The Vancouver Winter Olympics was officially marred by the untimely death of a Georgian luge competitor. The American news stations have harped on this tragedy as well as the lack of snow and the French language as signs of a failed Olympics, while at the same time USA USA USAing about female downhill Vonn winning […]

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FUCK NBC

February 16, 2010 – 8:25 pm

NBC paid millions to air the 2010 Winter Olympics from Vancouver. Downhill skiing is the penultimate event on the card. Curling is # 1, as evinced by the recent SIMPSONS’ episode where Marge and Homer win the gold for mixed curling. My bookie at Frank’s Bar on fulton covered that bet, but not the wager […]

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