Category: Fun
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CC photo #241: Oldest and youngest, coach and swimmer
Yup, that is right, I’m blatantly pushing my kids into swimming. First day of swimming for our youngest, last Saturday, second year of coaching for our oldest.
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CC photo #240: 3 guys having fun with a fishing crate in Toftir harbor
A strange sight in Toftir harbor, yesterday evening, three young men who’d put on wetsuits and lowered a fishing crate into the harbor, to see if they could get up into it all three at once. Quite difficult, by the looks of it, as it was very prone to keeling over. Moments later, all three…
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Behold, the world’s first water jetpack wedding
Grant and Amanda Engler were married Thursday in Newport Beach. Their wedding, which was organized by ZOZI, an “adventure travel” start-up, is believed to be the world’s first jet pack wedding. See Buzzfeed, but warning, bride in a seriously short miniskirt (/ maybe none at all)
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Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, completes the 2012 Round Christiansborg open water swim
According to SN.dk and the official result list, HRH Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, yesterday participated in 2012 Round Christiansborg in the canals of Copenhagen, and completed the 2000 meter swim in 35.20 and 65th spot, flanked by famed Olympian Mette Jacobsen who finished in 35.21 and 68th. Not many swimmers noticed Her Royal Highness, hidden behind her…
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CC photo #239: Our youngest now also a registered swimmer
He protested this morning that he couldn’t join our local swimming club, since he didn’t know how to swim. ‘I only know how to jump and dive and make somersaults’. I guess we forced him to the registration / free swim today, and I guess it went okay ;-)
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Behold, NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon officiating a dolphin race at Georgia Aquarium
Complete with a fished-filled trophy and all, see NBC Sports
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This pool is too small for even a baby elephant
Trying to count laps here, but it is difficult, via Arbroath
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What happens when squid listen to Cypress Hill
This video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of a squid, being stimulated by electricity produced from the sound of Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain”. See Backyard brains via Buzzfeed
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Poor hippo can swim but not climb out of the pool
A young hippopotamus plopped into the pool on Tuesday at the Monate Conservation Lodge north of Johannesburg. The pool is big enough for the hippo to swim but it’s eight feet deep with no steps and “there’s no way he can come out,” lodge manager Ruby Ferreira told The Associated Press on Thursday. Now the…