First, to explain the 24-hour delay in this week’s Friday Funnies. It’s Lleyton Hewitt’s fault. On a day when I’d normally be posting the week’s sports highlights, my daughter and I spent nine hours in the car fanging our way to Melbourne for Lleyton’s farewell. A marathon drive diminishes your capacity in many key areas…
Tag: Rio Olympics
Is this the Olympics or the Hunger Games?
There’s flesh-eating bacteria in the water and alligators hanging out on the golf course. A fatal horse disease that’s been used as a biological weapon was discovered near the Equestrian Centre. Public security has been described as a ‘total improvisation’. And there’s no guarantee there’ll be any power. So is this the Olympics or is…
When 3,000 naked cyclists photobomb your wedding
What do you do when you collapse on a golf course and apparently stop breathing for three minutes? Well, you clamber out of your hospital bed, put on a pair of your loudest duds and turn up to play the following day smoking a cigarette. John Daly wasn’t about to let a pesky little lung…
The stinky business of the Rio Olympics
Remember that Seinfeld episode where Kramer swims in the East River and an onlooker mistakes him for a dead body on the grounds that no one would be stupid enough to swim in such fetid waters? That’s next year’s Olympics. Not to put too fine a point on it but nearly 1,400 sailors, rowers, kayakers,…
Friday funnies
Last week, we experienced a celestial double whammy — a full moon and, at five minutes, the shortest total lunar eclipse of the century. But we didn’t need to look to the heavens to know things were out of whack. Here on Planet Earth there have been some strange happenings in the field of play….
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