Found these via Matt Abood and Amaury Leveaux on Twitter, Versus TV sport commercials. This one about You vs Them:
And this one about being the underdog: “The odds may be stacked against you, fair enough. But what the odds don’t know, is this isn’t a math test” :-)
No, it doesn’t just go ‘pffffhht’. Smarter Every Day via Laughing Squid.
Romanian media says Prince Albert of Monaco fell in love with Romanian swimmer Camelia Potec at the Mare Nostrum event in Monte Carlo in 2000, when he is also said to have met Charlene Wittstock. The source is Potec’s former coach, Doina Sava, and Potec is said to have admitted that the Prince asked her to sit at his table after the Mare Nostrum event. Via romania-insider.com.
Indoor speed skating is for Dutch wimps, this is how it is done by true Norwegian vikings. Vikingfjord is a brand of Norwegian vodka, keeps you warm. Via UnofficialNetworks.
Interesting motivation here:
The singer/songwriter left Hurst Castle to swim to Fort Albert, but the strong current of the tide dragged him towards Southampton. In the end, he ended up swimming about 5,000 metres — double what he had planned.
Gareth said: “It was tough but for some reason I didn’t seem to get tired. I think it’s because I know the cause is so important and I didn’t fancy going through with my forfeit of walking down Ryde in the nude.
This brave man raised £1,500 last year by walking around Isle of Wight in just his underpants and hopes to have raised another £2,000 now, all going to a five-year-old boy who needs £300,000 for potentially lifesaving cancer treatment in America.
Anyone wishing to donate can go to www.garethicke.com/charity-swim
A creature described as a “sea animal” chewed off both arms of a Russian swimmer in an extremely rare attack in the waters off its Far Eastern Coast. Via Herald Sun.
“A 25-year-old man was brought in in grave condition, unconscious. His arms were chewed off at the elbows,” the Interfax news agency quoted a source in a hospital in the Khasan district of the Far Eastern Primorye region as saying.
“He’ll live,” the source added.
Don’t like that description at all, calling what was most likely some kind of shark a “sea animal”. Think I’ll move our house a bit further away from the shore, just to be sure.
The USS Indianapolis was the last major American ship sunk by enemy forces during World War II, with the largest loss of life at sea in US history, as some 300 men went down with the ship and over the next four days another 500 or so died of starvation, exposure, suicide and shark attacks. We know it best from this scene out of “Jaws” below, but now it will be made into a movie, produced by Robert Downey Jr. himself. Via NBC Connecticut.
I’m offended on so many levels, The Onion via Laughing Squid.
We arrived too late for it, but our guide told us that is was really nice. I think I’ll fast-forward past the introduction of dignitaries etc, and go straight for the show, “An Ode to Water”.
