Loco-Rinso (Crazy Old Women)

I happened across this video and had to post it. I've seen many fights over the years; usually in pubs or outside pubs between young men and/or women. Never have I seen a fight that made me laugh...until now. The poor old dears don't even have the energy to stand up.

This Ping Ain't Pong

Since I'm not allowed to show clips from the Olympics, I thought I'd post two clips of one of my faviourite sports at the Olympics - Ping Pong. Why is it one of my favourites? Because it's LOCO. Hitting a small plastic white ball on a table. Can't get more Loco than that (except maybe for ribbon dancing)

Here are two "classic shots" from Ping Pong. I have no idea who these guys are, but they're pretty awesome.

LocoLypics Lead Medal

My quest to show highlights of funny, strange or memorable tragic (but still funny) moments of the Olympics has FAILED.

I forgot that all material is owned by the Olympic Committee and the broadcasters and cannot be reproduced without written permission blah blah blah..........

So instead I'm going to have a 'poor me' moment. For the past 2 1/2 days I've had an eye infection that has rendered me totally useless for 2.5 days.... thanks to the eyedrops that force you into a cloud of near-blindness giving you the pleasure of only LISTENING to the Olympics. Maybe that's a good thing. Is it me or are these Olympics a real let down? They just don't seem to have the pizazz of the others.... I've always been an avid follower, but this time round I'm almost at the 'I couldn't care less stage'. Maybe it has something to do with Tibet. I don't know. I'm just finding them.....*yawn*.

I've added the official olympic site to its rightful place.

LocoLympics

As a tribute to the 2008 Games, I'm going to post regular gems of Olympic moments. It's only early days with Beijing, so no bloopers yet. So, here's a taste of what's (hopefully) to come over the next fortnight:

Red-Eye Fortnight

Since my last post I've been consumed and transfixed to my TV. Damn Olympics. I can't help myself - I love sports and love them more when Aussies are hard at it. So begins a fortnight of bleary red eyes.

However, there are some sports that I can't take seriously.... Like women's gymnastics. Not all of it, but the floor routine, the bar thingy and the ball and ribbon throwing? Come on! Women's gym would be far better if they removed all of the fluff and who-har. I'm sure more gymnasts suffer injury from wrist flicking, head jerking fluffy movements than they do triple somersaulting. The guys don't carry on like parrots on crack, so why should the women? It kind of reminds me of Jane Turner and her rendition of a gymnast. I"ve been scouring the net trying to find the video to post here to show it, but no luck so far. I THINK it appeared during the "Fast Forward" series - correct me if I'm wrong. And if you have better luck than me finding it, please let me know - it deserves to be on this blog.

Just to get you in the mood (and if you don't know who Jane Turner is, SHAME on you), here's one of the famous dance routines