[thechat] sport and life?

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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To:   thechat at lists.evolt.org
Subject:  Re: [thechat] sport and life?


On Wednesday 05 December 2001 15:36, deke  wrote:
>> On 5 Dec 2001, at 13:20, Luther, Ron posted a message which said:
>> > Not sure it "counts" as a sport, but I'm in a weekly bowling league.
>> > [Some people tend to discount sports you can play with a cigarette
>> > hanging out of your mouth and a bottle of beer in one hand .. dang
>> > philestines!]
>
>> I'm trying to think of any sports you *can't* play that way. Pole
>> vaulting would be difficult, but there are one-armed golfers.

Scuba (particularly Freediving, which is both competitive and
entirely dependent on lung capacity & efficiency). The helmet/
regulator with inbuilt (lit) cigarette is the staple April Fool item
for diving magazines.

I think you'd have both spillage and outage problems with
skiing.

>It seems that every time I tell someone that I pole vault, I hear "I tried
>that one time back in school and nearly broke my neck!  You fuckers are
>crazy!"

>Anyone else with a story like that?

Trampolining - torn muscles in my back. I still (12 years later) can't sit
on
the floor without something to lean against.

Cheers
Martin


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