 olympic diver disqualified because of no personal drama |
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 Aug 22 2008, 12:37 PM
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Aug 22 2008, 01:03 PM
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QUOTE (Watchman @ Aug 22 2008, 12:37 PM)  QUOTE Creators Syndicate - Diver Hid Details of Intact Family A member of the U.S. Olympic diving team was disqualified from competition today when it was learned that he did not have a sufficiently compelling human storyline to exploit on the NBC telecast of the worldwide sporting event. Tracy Klujian, the expelled diver, was not raised by a single mother, never had a career-threatening injury, and did not overcome a personal tragedy of any kind before making the Olympic diving team, U.S. Olympic officials revealed today. "Had Tracy been involved in an organ donation, as either a donor or a recipient, that would have been acceptable to us," a diving team spokesman told reporters. "However, he was not." According to sources close to the diving team, Mr. Klujian had concealed the fact that he comes from an intact middle-class family that never lost its home to a flood, tornado or typhoon. But what may have sealed Mr. Klujian's doom, sources said, was his utter lack of a gravely ill family member to win a medal for. "Tracy did his best to hide his background from team officials," one source said. "But when the truth came out, he was finished." Speaking to reporters in Beijing, NBC sports chief Dick Ebersol was even less charitable, terming Mr. Klujian's actions "a reprehensible betrayal." "We do our best to check out all of the athletes to make sure that their backgrounds are full of compelling human drama, but we can't catch everything," Mr. Ebersol said. "This is a case of one really bad guy exploiting the system." Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author of the book "The Republican Playbook." To find out more about Andy Borowitz and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. Shouldn't this be in OT or something? It's under the Humor section of the Entertainment section of Yahoo! news. -------------------- Beers that I have had, updated July 5th, 2009: 1,548
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Aug 22 2008, 01:16 PM
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no, cause it's on yahoo news
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Aug 23 2008, 07:33 AM
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QUOTE (Watchman @ Aug 22 2008, 02:16 PM) no, cause it's on yahoo news But it's not factual. -------------------- Spam? Isn't that something poor people eat?
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Aug 23 2008, 01:28 PM
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neither is fox news, but no one asks me to move those articles to off-topic
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Aug 23 2008, 01:32 PM
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QUOTE (Watchman @ Aug 23 2008, 02:28 PM) neither is fox news, but no one asks me to move those articles to off-topic Seroiusly, everything lance posts should be in off topic, why the complaints for this 
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Aug 23 2008, 01:44 PM
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Aug 23 2008, 02:14 PM
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QUOTE (Watchman @ Aug 23 2008, 02:28 PM) neither is fox news, but no one asks me to move those articles to off-topic http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409403,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/22/obese....ref=mpstoryview Interesting. -------------------- Spam? Isn't that something poor people eat?
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Aug 28 2008, 12:26 AM
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I was raised on the dairy, BITCH! Group: Members Posts: 3,080 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Cedar Park Member No.: 49 |
I don't understand.
To be an olympic competitor you have to come from a dysfunctional family or suffered some emotional trauma? I thought they just had to be exceptional athletes. -------------------- "Ah, y'know it's funny, these people they go to sleep, they think everything's fine, everything's good. They wake up the next day and they're on fire."
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Aug 28 2008, 05:58 AM
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QUOTE (pysex @ Aug 28 2008, 12:26 AM) I don't understand. To be an olympic competitor you have to come from a dysfunctional family or suffered some emotional trauma? I thought they just had to be exceptional athletes. read this whole thread. it was in the humor section on yahoo news. --------------------  |
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Aug 28 2008, 03:40 PM
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That article is like me taking something from the Onion and posting it in NPR. It's a humor column from the Creators Syndicate.
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Aug 28 2008, 04:14 PM
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onion articles have been posted in NPR multiple times and no one asked me to move those to off topic
i can't help if people can't detect satire |
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