wolfie2kX 528 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Found on the back wall of the leper colony in the Urthak's Moxie area: "A short fortunteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large." {insert rimshot here} Ouch! Link to comment
Ysne58 236 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 That is really ba-a-a-ad. Link to comment
essjayehm 58 Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 (edited) Well, Ysne, that was rather sheepish... <groan> A marathon runner without footwear suffers the agony of defeat. <cheer> doubly funny because not too many marathoners could actually win an event without shoes... -inscription on a statue in the TG starting area Edited February 24, 2011 by essjayehm Link to comment
Ryanrocker 200 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Hahaha, thank you for the quote wolfie, that may have just made my Thursday night Link to comment
gial 2 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Well, Ysne, that was rather sheepish... <groan> A marathon runner without footwear suffers the agony of defeat. <cheer> doubly funny because not too many marathoners could actually win an event without shoes... -inscription on a statue in the TG starting area . . . Unless he is Abebe Bikila at the 1960 Olympic games in Rome. Bikila won the marathon barefoot. He won it again in Tokyo, 1964 -- but wore shoes that time. Link to comment
essjayehm 58 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 (edited) . . . Unless he is Abebe Bikila at the 1960 Olympic games in Rome. Bikila won the marathon barefoot. He won it again in Tokyo, 1964 -- but wore shoes that time. Glad I worded my post the way I did ... but I was actually thinking about a specific Africian tribe that, according to a documenary I sawWilliam Shatner's "Weird or What" show, some members can routinely run for 24-48 hours straight (ie between tribal communities), without any type of footwear at all... apparently it's all in the preparation and technique. EDIT: Remembered the source of that factoid... Edited February 25, 2011 by essjayehm Link to comment
Ysne58 236 Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 My daughter has to write a one page random short story for her advanced writing class. She plans to quote the pun Wolfie found. Essay that was another really good find. Link to comment
cider_steve 26 Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Well, Ysne, that was rather sheepish... <groan> A marathon runner without footwear suffers the agony of defeat. <cheer> doubly funny because not too many marathoners could actually win an event without shoes... -inscription on a statue in the TG starting area . . . Unless he is Abebe Bikila at the 1960 Olympic games in Rome. Bikila won the marathon barefoot. He won it again in Tokyo, 1964 -- but wore shoes that time. Zola Budd was also a fantastic runner who didn't wear footwear. She was South African, but ran for a short while under the GB banner ( I think it was because SA were still banned at the time ) She had that famous clash with Mary Decker at the 1984 Los Angeles olympics. Got her feet stomped and bloody, IIRC. Link to comment
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