In which life imitates, um,.... art?
Apr. 21st, 2009 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogBoth of these real stories came from this past weekend's Wait Wait, but both came out of popular culture long before that.
Perhaps the best Saturday Night Live bit ever from its 80s era is this one:
You laugh. But somewhere in Germany, Harry and Martin have inspired another's tears:
Niklas Stoepel is the only competitive male in synchronized swimming in Germany. The 17-year-old high school student from the western German town of Wattenscheid continues to battle an unusual form of gender discrimination and prejudice in his push to compete at the international level.
So far, though, his applications to compete have been rejected by the international swimming federation FINA, and his prospects for going to the Olympics remain limited at best. In Germany, where the German Swimming Association is a bit more tolerant of men in the sport, Stoepel has already become national youth champion with his FS Bochum team in group competition.
At least HE knows how to swim.
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The show then ended with a Lightning Fill In the Blank question about a Qantas Airlines flight being grounded because of, anyone remember?!?,....
SNAKES ON THE PLANE!
The snakes, just six inches long, were among 12 Stimson's pythons being flown from Alice Springs to Melbourne.
At first it was thought the reptiles may have been eaten by the other snakes, but this was discounted after they were weighed on landing.
Passengers were transferred to other aircraft. The jet was fumigated but the snakes' bodies are yet to be found.
Don't know about you, but I have HAD it with muthafuckin' snakes on my muthafuckin' koalas.
Perhaps the best Saturday Night Live bit ever from its 80s era is this one:
You laugh. But somewhere in Germany, Harry and Martin have inspired another's tears:
Niklas Stoepel is the only competitive male in synchronized swimming in Germany. The 17-year-old high school student from the western German town of Wattenscheid continues to battle an unusual form of gender discrimination and prejudice in his push to compete at the international level.
So far, though, his applications to compete have been rejected by the international swimming federation FINA, and his prospects for going to the Olympics remain limited at best. In Germany, where the German Swimming Association is a bit more tolerant of men in the sport, Stoepel has already become national youth champion with his FS Bochum team in group competition.
At least HE knows how to swim.
----
The show then ended with a Lightning Fill In the Blank question about a Qantas Airlines flight being grounded because of, anyone remember?!?,....
SNAKES ON THE PLANE!
The snakes, just six inches long, were among 12 Stimson's pythons being flown from Alice Springs to Melbourne.
At first it was thought the reptiles may have been eaten by the other snakes, but this was discounted after they were weighed on landing.
Passengers were transferred to other aircraft. The jet was fumigated but the snakes' bodies are yet to be found.
Don't know about you, but I have HAD it with muthafuckin' snakes on my muthafuckin' koalas.