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To: Poet who wrote (918)	8/27/2004 6:05:22 PM
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google.com Let's be loose. How about 17 syllables, however you get there? Nevermind, one could just break words in amusing ways to get the 5-7-5! BTW, if you are missing synchronized swimming in the Olympics, you are missing the best thing I ever saw. It makes you scream with laughter. (You know, those thin little embarrassed screams.) And it's hard, what they do, just amazing. I mean, they're real athletes. But IT IS SO FUNNY. The funniest is when the judges can't suppress laughter, though they try, God knows they try. Like, when some young woman leaps vertically up from the water -- straight up like a rocket, but feet first -- impossibly rising (with an assist from her submerged friend) beyond her waist, and opens her legs out horizontally, parallel to the water. An impossibly athletic feat which, when the judge compliments its "extension" and tries not to laugh, and the other judge does too, but also fails, and says, "Don't try that at home," well, it's an Olympic highlight. I TiVo a lot of the Olympics and fast forward through everything except gymnastics (there has been a lot of drama, and some great performances, there; a Russian named Nemov got screwed (imo) out of a medal for the most amazing high bar performance I've ever seen. Apparently not sticking the landing is all. I think they need to rethink that. And poor Hamm had to await his turn while the crowd, furious at the wrongness of the judges, protested. But Hamm did great in spite of that distraction. I was happy for him.