Sorry, Michael Phelps might be the Fort Knox of Olympic medals, but let’s put to rest right here that he is, as the media hype likes to do, “the greatest athlete of all time” and is single-handedly (flipperly?) making America great again. C’mon folks, if I had been able to enter the Solo Synchronized Swimming event I would be the greatest. (OK, maybe just the cutest.) But Phelps has sixteen—count ‘em, sixteen—different swimming events, or chances to win a medal in swimming (not counting the 100-Metre Dog Paddle). Muhammad Ali (“the Greatest) had one chance, at light heavyweight for a medal. It’s that way for most Olympians. Sorry Mike, you are the greatest swimmer of all time, but not the greatest athlete (after we check you for dolphin DNA), and now, if you have a good jungle yell, you could have a second career as the greatest Tarzan of all time. Sorry again, but I just beat out Caitlin Jenner as the best Esther Williams of all time. All that Solo Synchronized Swimming practice has finally paid off.
See other DCJ Olympic posts on the games, and Chinese gymnasts.
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I can only ditto your daughter , “Your a very strange man Papa! ?”
But we love you, keep them coming !! Where was THIS profession Clapp in his graduate seminars????
I kept the satirist under wraps in my professorial days. But now, as you can see, I am not only “out of the closet” but sometimes willing to put my dignity at risk.
Giggling is always good for a child. Simone Biles giggles a lot and she has gold medals.
Your graphics are killing me Papa! But they are good for a giggle.
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