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| Katie Couric, American Idiot |
| 2018-02-13 |
| Arrogant, condescending & stupid is no way to go through life, cookie. [USAToday] Katie Couric might want to visit Amsterdam sometime. The broadcaster is drawing criticism on social media after her unusual reasoning for the Netherlands' success in speedskating over the years. Couric, who co-anchored NBC's coverage of Friday's Olympic opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, said that the Dutch rely on skating as a form of transportation in their capital city, which sits at sea level. "As you all know, it has lots of canals that can freeze in the winter," Couric said, "so for as long as those canals have existed, the Dutch have skated on them to get from place to place, to race each other and also to have fun." Click on for world-class mockery, so richly deserved... |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #22 "It's true, and no bullshit." The Bulgar, A boatman, was prone to be vulgar. "A sturdy devochka Would chop down a tchotchke, And over the Volga vaults Olga." |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-02-13 23:14 |
| #21 Katie Couric might want to visit Amsterdam sometime. No problem! She can skate across the Atlantic! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-02-13 23:13 |
| #20 She’s not wrong. |
| Posted by: KBK 2018-02-13 21:29 |
| #19 With Maunder Minimum 2.0 coming soon to this solar system, maybe they will get more time to skate. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Bumble5724 2018-02-13 21:29 |
| #18 I seem to remember the Mycenaean proverb, "If you pole vault over the walls and land on hay, you will be known as the good guys." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-02-13 21:13 |
| #17 The problem is, you can't count on walls having airbags on the other side. This is why during a siege the attackers often catapulted rotting animal carcasses over the walls - to have something soft for the pole vaulters to land on. Just another little known fact. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-02-13 20:41 |
| #16 #14 The problem is, you can't count on walls having airbags on the other side. Could explain why the Spartans were not very good at sieges. "We. Are. Sparta! uaah...uahh..ieeee!" |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-02-13 19:57 |
| #15 I'm sure the Dutch used pole vaulting to get to the red light district without being seen by busy-bodies on the bridges. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-02-13 14:24 |
| #14 The problem is, you can't count on walls having airbags on the other side. |
| Posted by: S. Thaick9166 2018-02-13 13:22 |
| #13 Always fancied pole vault originally as a way to scale walls. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-02-13 13:20 |
| #12 Cruising in my klompen On a Sunday afternoon... https://youtu.be/rpX0mPSYMC8 |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-13 12:43 |
| #11 Nope, that was already done in ancient Greece |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2018-02-13 12:07 |
| #10 My understanding is pole vaulting originated in Amsterdam as well. The Dutch used the poles to vault across the canals. Exciting little factoid there but I won't vouch for its credibility. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-02-13 12:01 |
| #9 The last Elfstedentocht (skate run through 11 towns) was held in 1997. The canals don't freeze easily these days. But look at Dutch paintings of the 17th century. Couric isn't entirely wrong but frozen canals in Amsterdam are a rare event these days. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2018-02-13 11:46 |
| #8 Skating on the canals depends entirely on the winter being cold enough, long enough to freeze solid. Has this been the case during these recent years of much-trumpeted catastrophic global warming? As I recall, Hans Brinker, Or The Silver Skates was set during the Little Ice Age, when winters were much colder, allowing London to hold Frost Fairs on the frozen Thames. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-02-13 11:30 |
| #7 Not that dumb though |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2018-02-13 10:51 |
| #6 The do have great canals for practice. Just saying. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-02-13 08:08 |
| #5 There posed in D.C. a great Thinker Who plugged leaky dikes with his finger, Though he wasn't quite Dutch Nor especially butch, And he skated as well as Hans Brinker. Damn you, Rodin. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-02-13 06:48 |
| #4 You mean Fake News is not an Olympic Event? |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-02-13 05:21 |
| #3 They do a lot of cycling and the muscles are the same. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-02-13 05:01 |
| #2 Wonder if she'll get the 'wooden shoe'? Olympics: NBC boots analyst over Japan comment at Pyeongchang Games |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-13 03:27 |
| #1 it has lots of canals that can freeze in the winter And in the summer, well they can run to work because their wooden shoes float! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-13 02:39 |