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Old 01-24-2003, 07:16 AM
Mazurka Girl Mazurka Girl is offline
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Ice skating is slow, cold torture (Article)
http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2...s/sports02.txt
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I went faster and faster, around and around again, constantly building up speed until I leaped high into the air and executed a perfect Tornado, the full twist-backflip that's the signature move of U.S. National Figure Skating champion Michael Weiss.


(Edited to correct link. Article was swtiched to a new link & archived)
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Old 01-24-2003, 08:10 AM
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The main reason this is so funny is because it's so true.
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Old 01-24-2003, 08:52 AM
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What a wonderful story, Madame's husband, Monsieur Madame, recently started skating and can relate 1000% to the sentiments expressed
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Old 01-24-2003, 09:03 AM
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Scary!
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Old 01-24-2003, 02:48 PM
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This is hysterical! Thanks for posting it.

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Old 01-24-2003, 03:41 PM
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Am I missing something here? I keep linking to an article about high school swimming!!
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Old 01-24-2003, 03:56 PM
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Try this link, it looks like they archived it:

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2...s/sports02.txt
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Old 01-24-2003, 03:56 PM
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Am I missing something here? I keep linking to an article about high school swimming!!
DARNED!!!!! They changed the story today and gave it the same URL as the skating story.

It's too bad because that was a great story.
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Old 01-24-2003, 05:06 PM
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It works now.
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Old 01-24-2003, 05:33 PM
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Too funny
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Old 01-24-2003, 07:25 PM
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LOL That's me a year ago....
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Old 01-24-2003, 08:30 PM
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Great story...

Reminds me when I was skating about 2 years, this little girl who couldn't have been 5, just kept staring at my skates...

Finally she tugged on my sleeve and said, she had never seen such big figure skates....remember now that I have a size 12 1/2 size skate...
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Old 01-24-2003, 09:07 PM
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GRIN!!!

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Old 01-25-2003, 01:27 AM
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Aww that was adorable! Thanks!
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Old 01-25-2003, 07:09 AM
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The funny thing is that I recognise myself from some years ago - I never used to bother, and often passed up an opportunity to go skating. I still don't know what changed it - one day I was accompanying my daughter (who was hooked after lessons at school), and thought "Hey, I'm having fun!" And the rest is history.... But why, after 20-odd years (I first strapped on a pair of skates when I was about 20, going with a gang of friends, rather as in the story) of not really having fun should it have suddenly changed?
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