"The surfing semifinals at the 2024 Olympic Games had a surprise guest!"
If there is one thing the non-surfing accidental surf watcher enjoys, it is a flyaway air. If there is another thing, it is a dolphin, otter or other such lovable creature sharing the lineup with humanoid wave sliders. And, thus, the 2024 Paris Olympics delivered spectacles for the ages for those unengaged in the daily grind of our most torturous castration.
While surf fans grumbled about the lousy swell for finals day, Aunt and Uncle Nebraska held their breaths while the most significant Chordata of all broke the Pacific’s surface as Brazil’s Tatiana Weston-Webb and Costa Rica’s Brisa Hennessy bobbed in the great nothing.
MSN reported, “A whale made a surprise appearance during an Olympics surfing event in Tahiti on Monday, 5 August. As Tatiana Weston-Webb from Brazil and Brisa Hennessy of Costa Rica competed in a semi-final match, the huge marine mammal breached in a mesmerising spectacle for both competitors and spectators.”
National Public Radio crowed, “Viewers of Olympic women’s surfing didn’t only get to watch athletes compete on Monday, they were also treated to a surprise appearance by a curious whale. Brazil’s Tatiana Weston-Webb and Costa Rica’s Brisa Hennessy were waiting for waves in the semifinals when they spotted something even more dramatic: a whale leaping headfirst out of the water in what is known as a breach.”
Yahoo! gasped, “The surfing semifinals at the 2024 Olympic Games had a surprise guest! On Aug. 5, while Brazilian athlete Tatiana Weston-Webb and Costa Rican athlete Brisa Hennessy competed in a women’s semifinal surfing match at the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, a whale breached in the distance, providing a perfect photo opportunity.
And on and on and on.
Though there is growing momentum to place Olympic surfing in a swimming pool, led by the very King of Teahupo’o Filipe Toledo (Reign: 7/29 – some of 7/30) himself, it will be hard to recreate the sort of mammal magic that the aforementioned Aunt and Uncle N. care most about.
Conventional thinking holds that the LA 2028 Olympic surfing component will be held in Huntington Beach and hope springs that a playful dolphin might make an appearance. If not, maybe someone waving a Pride flag being pitched from the end of the pier will suffice as dramatic backdrop.
Exciting.
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Anal-bleaching whale?
That’s two whales spotted in the olympics, the other breaching the top bar in the pole vault competition.
Or better yet, someone from the bowels of the frothy Santorum HB cesspool will wave a confusing Trump branded Pride flag as he tries to lose another election in ’28 due to his inept political acumen*
*if only he had chosen Nikki Haley, he might win in ’24
Where do you think J.D. Vance get his eye liner. Sephora?
Hang on, calling a gay friend for his take on this Q.
it’s permanent coal mine dust
Next to the orange spray tan
The response I received is very telling:
“That product of Appalachia could not spell Sephora much less step foot in there as he would get his eyes scratched out by the first makeup boi that sees him on their turf”
So we are left to search for this elusive answer elsewhere!
you got to admit, this was very clever though:
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance stunned reporters Wednesday by attempting to confront Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz on the tarmac when their planes arrived at similar times here.
“I figured I’d come by and one just get a good look at the plane because hopefully it’s going to be my plane in a few months, but I also thought you guys might get lonely because the vice president doesn’t answer questions from reporters and hasn’t for 17 days,” Vance told traveling campaign reporters.
Vance, who spoke to the press after approaching Air Force Two, asked: “Have they given you guys an explanation for why she won’t take questions from reporters?” ~ NY Post
Harris and Walz escaped reporters and Vance, and were seen later doing photo-ops with Girl Scouts…..still not answering any questions or doing one interview………….in the over two weeks since Harris was “installed” into the “Democratic” Presidential Campaign.
No Primaries, No Votes. No Interviews. Just Democracy!!!
I absolutely love it! This is real time SNL skits that just keep delivering!
You should make a new HatATAT
All Trump All the Time
He’s better for our country than Kamala. But that is an awfully low bar to set for the leader of our country.
What’s your thoughts on Tampon Tim?
He is the worst of the four of them and that is rather telling! His policies are borderline criminal and I suspect he owns more dresses than Kamala the Cackle Queen
DSS&S is pissed… pr dept too…and a few locals~
JMD there is no swimming in the competition zone!
Oh no you didn’t
the who’s property is owned by the great, great, grand lord…sponsored by moody blues…tuesday PM meeting…tree meeting with the chick in the redwood tree~
Trebuches were quite an effective weapon