>>>>>Now here is a weird one. The Dutch four man bobsled team has withdrawn from the Olympics, before the event. Reason: the driver is too scared to take the sled down the course. This sounds like The Onion, doesn't it? Evidently it's for real, though ---
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/02/25/olympics.bobsled.driver.quits/index.html?hpt=C1>>>>
>>>>That took a lot of guts. Good for him. Sometimes it takes more courage to be right than to be "brave".
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>>>Charles, when did you become Sherlock Holmes (according to your photo)? ;-)
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>> No, that's my "retro" shot. <g> Taken just before one of the greatest adventures of my life - I keep it around to remind me of just how crazy I used to be and that being old ain't so bad given the alternatives that were more likely for the guy in the picture. <s>
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>I don't suppose you're going to hit the highlights for us, are you? I'm sure it's a heck of a story.
Istanbul, New Dehli, Mandalay, Chiang Mai, Turkish Grey Wolves, Russian Gymnastics Team, NSC guys later seen in Iran Contra hearings, very strange French priest who was former para in Algeria.
"While much is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened"
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
