Category: Fun
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CC photo #437: Badem eyeballing me at Istanbul 2012
“Badem”, mascot of the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. They are endangered, the monk seals, only 600 or thereabout left.
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Seal Pup Slip n’ Slide (surfboard remote camera)
“Newly weaned harbor seal pups make use of my old windsurf board. I mounted a remote GoPro camera and these posers seemed to know exactly where to perform! It had rained that morning and the slip n’ slide ensued.”
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CC photo #435: Water Balloon Catapult Crew at our ‘Swim Day’, Yesterday
So the rules were that the team won that caught the largest number of (intact) water balloons. One girl managed to catch 4 balloons, several kids caught 2 or 1, and most of them got wet. The kid standing is our youngest son choosing to stand on the non-business end of the catapult, the girl…
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Huge wave crashes proposal, she says ‘yes’ anyway
“I had the most amazing/crazy proposal on the 21st! I was surprised by a song written by my fiancé. He sang it atop a rock surrounded by the ocean waters at Laguna beach. As soon as he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him, a HUGE wave completely engulfed us and…
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Swimming pool as physics classroom
See wbng “The kids have been preparing for about three weeks now for the Great Cardboard Race,” said middle school science teacher Deidra Bigelow, “And they’re very excited. We’ve been talking about buoyancy and floating and sinking in science class.”
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Michael Phelps Loses It On Golf Club
“Michael Phelps is use to winning effortlessly. So, attempting to take over a new sport that doesn’t come as easy to him as swimming, may cause a bit of frustration.” http://youtu.be/3Je6-ZSI5f4
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Oh no, soccer is moving towards being an aquatic event
Via Deadspin “This footage, from a match between Ekibastuz and Almaty in Kazakhstan’s top league, has been making the rounds over the last day. Be it a due to a busted water main or a pitch tilted from the horizontal, give credit to the players for sloshing through adversity.”
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FREE DIVE (Guillaume Nery’s “Free Fall” tribute / parody)
“This “funny” video is a “tribute to / parody of” the beautiful and awesome video “FREE FALL”, by Guillaume Nery, my french fellow-citizen free diving record-man.” Here’s the original