My OperaGolf!
Sunday, June 15, 2008 8:41:37 AM
I got the following email from a friend, who referred to it as "The fuuniest golf line he had ever heard:
Mickelson was asked if that was the first 9 he had ever made on the 13th hole at Torrey Pines.
“No,” he said. “I’ve had a 9 on the 13th before. I was 8 years old.”
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Ummm - I didn't get it. Dumb I guess. Anyway, here is my responce in part:
"I gather that it took this lad 9 swings at a silly little white ball with curiously misshapen, over-priced sticks to put the ball in some hole in the ground numbered 13 about 100 m away from where he started. And that he was being mocked by someone because of it. Well, IMHO, he was fucking lucky that he managed to hit the ball in the first place. And the fact that it only took him 9 swings to get the ball into the hole is a friggin miracle! If I tried to play the stupidest game ever invented by mankind (until some idiot came up with Video Games, that is), the stick would be even more misshapen after I wound it around a tree after taking about 200 swings at the ball while it sat unmolested on the tee!"
Mickelson was asked if that was the first 9 he had ever made on the 13th hole at Torrey Pines.
“No,” he said. “I’ve had a 9 on the 13th before. I was 8 years old.”
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Ummm - I didn't get it. Dumb I guess. Anyway, here is my responce in part:
"I gather that it took this lad 9 swings at a silly little white ball with curiously misshapen, over-priced sticks to put the ball in some hole in the ground numbered 13 about 100 m away from where he started. And that he was being mocked by someone because of it. Well, IMHO, he was fucking lucky that he managed to hit the ball in the first place. And the fact that it only took him 9 swings to get the ball into the hole is a friggin miracle! If I tried to play the stupidest game ever invented by mankind (until some idiot came up with Video Games, that is), the stick would be even more misshapen after I wound it around a tree after taking about 200 swings at the ball while it sat unmolested on the tee!"
KimberlySqueakeyCat # Sunday, June 15, 2008 8:53:18 AM
Eliane a/k/a Ellymomable # Sunday, June 15, 2008 8:17:41 PM
Jimradostsguy # Tuesday, June 24, 2008 7:50:35 PM
But now, of course, the good doctor's idea has amounted to null! The fat and sloppy just take Golf Carts! Duh!
Eliane a/k/a Ellymomable # Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:47:50 PM
Not all fat people are sloppy!
Eliane a/k/a Ellymomable # Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:48:54 PM
I think I sent you a Skype message, are you in Bulgaria?
Jimradostsguy # Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:02:53 AM
WitchLady! That's why I'm Radost's Guy!Radost is a diminutive. Her full name is Radostina. It derives from the Slavic root word "rad" which means "happy, joyous". So to say "Radostina is happy." it's
"Radostina e rada." (BG) or simply:
"Radostina rada." (RU)
(The Russkies are a lazy bunch, and don't bother with the verb "to be" in the present tense!)
In RU, I would say about myself, "Ya rad!" Or about us, "Mi radi!"
In BG, that would be, "Miye sme radi!"
The last in Cyrillic: "Мие сме ради!"
Thus endeth your first class in Linguistics 101!
KimberlySqueakeyCat # Saturday, July 12, 2008 11:24:04 PM
Jimradostsguy # Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:34:21 AM
Sunfloweryulenka # Tuesday, July 22, 2008 7:31:36 PM
Jimradostsguy # Tuesday, August 5, 2008 2:23:28 PM
(I hope that worked! I wouldn't want yulenka to drop a Nuke down my chimney! Rad would be furious!)
Now that I've suitably sucked up to yulenka, maybe she can explain why Russians don't use the verb "to be " in the present tense? Huh? Why? Почему?
You may be interested in this, моя Русская. It's a comment I made in my Tchaikovsky Ballet Clips Section on my Site. It concerns the Mariinsky:
"Note that in the "Garland Waltz" in Sleeping Beauty, that young aspiring Ballerinas and Danseurs from the "Vaganova Ballet Academy", the Ballet School at the Kirov/Mariinsky Theater, are present for part of it. This is standard procedure at the Mariinsky. They always try to work the kiddies into as many presentations as they can.
The change of name of the theater, it would appear, was not considered important to the Western Propaganda Machines, thus few Westerners know about it. So the Mariinsky decided to stick with the old name, as we see in the theater's Official Touring Logo below. Of course, more Westerners could try paying attention, but they don't.
What can you do?"
Is what I said pretty well true?
To see the whole thing, go here
Jimradostsguy # Tuesday, August 5, 2008 2:33:36 PM