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I still can't get over that Men's 4x100 Free. I must have rewinded the last 50 meters ten times. Jason Lesak looked like he was flying out of the water at the end. Bernard must feel like crap now after his "The Americans? We’re going to smash them. That’s what we came here for." Go back to France
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<p>Was that race some $hit or what? I couldn't believe Lesak touched the wall first after the lead the French had. Bernard's face at the wall was priceless.</p>
<p>Despite the sweet revenge of that race, having listened to the French talking so much smack on Sunday, I really enjoyed last nights relay more. Being three seconds ahead, and cruising to a world record finish, although it looked like more, was great!</p>
<p>These are great games. I could do with a little less syncronized diving though.</p>
<p>Yeah, don't try to hire them to shove those 12-year-olds into puddles. They'd go "The Chinese cheaters? Oh we will smash them, we are de French, that's what we came here for" and then the little ****heads will run away from them and the French will just look utterly stunned.</p>
<p>Bernard's "oh crud" face was priceless. Oh and db, nice job ****ing off "the woman". Those parents just don't understand. Good luck dorm shopping, I have no idea when I'll be doing mine.</p>
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Look at WWI, WWII, and now the Olympics. Morons.
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<p>You forgot the American Revolution. While I appreciate what they did at Yorktown, they hightailed it out to the Bahamas shortly thereafter. What Pi$$ed me off the most was when they offered us 200 cots after Hurricane Katrina. </p>
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have you been to Paris in the summer? They need a lesson on bathing, the whole country reeks!
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<p>ROTFLMAO, No I haven't! Smelly ppl? That's ugly. </p>
<p>But getting back to the games, I don't want to jinx us. Let the water decide. As far as the other athletes are concerned, I thing we should cover more sports. We have 600 competitors in Beijing. NBC should give everyone a little sun.</p>
<p>Well the French did give you SEAS folks a lot of the modern study material for engineering. ;) Where would you all be without Fourier and Carnot, huh? :p</p>
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uhh okay i'm back and i just wasted two hours buying a trash can, a mirror, and a laundry basket.</p>
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<p>Awww....</p>
<p>I'm still rather unclear on "dorm essentials". Just what do I really need besides clothes (and possibly my own linens, comforters and sentimental items) that I can't buy in Charlottesville? At this moment I have a "wait and see approach". It's not going to turn out bad for me, right?</p>
<p>WRONG THREAD!! This is Olympics business only!</p>
<p>And db, I'm terribly sorry. Good thing it's a slow night out there in China
vistany: I knew there was another war they skated out on. And my guess is those 200 cots got lost because have you ever heard of the French navy or air force delivering stuff? No. We probably had to go fetch it.</p>
<p>Oh ya, the city really is bad, but the subway is a whole other story. We went to visit my aunt and uncle in Paris a couple years ago after they were transferred from Dallas, and to get to their place, we took the subway. You know when you go into a small, smoky bar or restaurant your clothes just pick up the smell, well it's the same in a subway car, just with their BO. </p>
<p>For dorm essentials, I plan on picking up linens, towels, a trash can, laundry bag, shower caddy, surge protector, mirror, and a desk lamp...among what ever else I see in the store. I think I'll do it on either Tuesday in Richmond or Wednesday in Charlottesville. </p>
<p>Beach Volleyball is coming up...should be good, they haven't lost a set the whole Olympics!</p>
<p>galoisien, feel free to start a dorm essentials thread. No more thread jacking :p.</p>
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<p>US just pwns at beach volleyball. I love watching Rogers and the giant crazy-last-name guy (doll house er) destroy people. It usually seems close at the begining, and then by the end I am laughing at how badly they are destroying the other team.</p>
<p>The USA probably invented beach volleyball, so it's only fair that we're the best. It's half naked people running around in sand with a ball. Most likely, at one point, it involved a lot of alcohol, and only the USA could come up with something like that. Remove the alcohol, slap the word Olympics next to it, throw in some hot boys and girls, and you've got yourself a great sport.</p>
<p>Good point shoe, I am pretty sure that most current incarnations of beach volleyball still involve a lot of alcohol, at least that has been my observation growing up at the beach.</p>
<p>Talk about US pwnage, have you seen the softball scores?? 3 straight no hitters! Thats insane... I heard they are taking it out of the olympics because the US is too rape. Unfortunately we blow at baseball though since the olympics perfectly coincide with the professional baseball season and all of our good players are tied up in other things. Do you guys know if this is true for other countries? Are they sending their minor league players like we are?</p>
<p>Meh, they're taking baseball away too. I guess it's too boring when we dominate in softball and the baseball teams suck. And the beach volleyball girls are nasty. I watched the Cuba game the other night and couldn't believe that the other team could suck so horribly, so we must be very very good.</p>
<p>yea it's slow. i had tivoed the thing, and i fast forwarded so I'm now in real time. it took about 10 minutes after I ate dinner. but since it is such a slow day, let's talk about these dorm essentials. WTHell are they? other than linens and sheets, I can't think of anything.</p>
<p>p.s. i'm taking some spoons and stuff from my kitchen so any cutlery doesn't count.</p>
<p>ahh swimming. how i love watching us dominate.</p>