'lympic spoilers

[fox]

dudes. gymnastics still isn't a sport, but damn, that was exciting.

i approve very much of young paul not believing he'd won -- and not in that half-assed way you normally see people being all can't-believe-i-did-it, but genuinely not believing it happened. (i do not, however, approve of his voice.)

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[thalia]

Matt knew ahead of time what happened, and he didn't tell me, but he said it was torture. I never in a million years thought Paul would pull it off.

I'm starting to find the whole "farmboy" angle kind of amusing, since I realized Waukesha is a suburb of Milwaukee. Good for them, though. They seem like nice kids.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

yeah, but out there, hell -- there are places that count as suburbs of cleveland where people have barns and farms and stuff, and milwaukee ain't cleveland. and my friend kronemab is from wisconsin and used to tip cows in high school. i believe the farmboy thing; it's better that they don't have, like, straw in their hair or whatever. [g]

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

kronemab also gave himself a concussion in high school by setting off bottle rockets while drunk and running into a tree to avoid one. I'm not sure how universal his experiences are. :)

[thalia]

milwaukee ain't cleveland

Isn't that a good thing? *ducks and runs*

Actually, Milwaukee is bigger than Cleveland. The 2000 census shows Milwaukee having a population of 596,974 and Cleveland 478,403.

There are farms around Waukesha, but there are also a lot of subdivisions with identical-looking houses. It has a population of 65,000. So, yeah, I'm sure they grew up on a lot with a barn, but it's not exactly the remote farming community I was picturing.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

1. :-P

2. i've found that further out midwest-way, the city limits are drawn differently. there are areas of indianapolis, frinstance, that would be suburbs if it were cleveland instead of indianapolis. i stand by my assertion that cleveland is a larger metro area than milwaukee, if not a larger city.

3. i haven't heard anybody say "remote farming community". all i've heard is "swinging from the rafters in the barn". so nyeah. ;-)