sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (08/09/84)
I'd like to thank Ron Rizzo for putting the sex back in homosexuality here
in net.motss, if only for a brief, shining two weeks. Usually the
discussions here are so damn high-minded that you'd guess that "motss" was
a persecuted religious sect. Anyway, the Aryan perfection of the US
gymnastics team left me rather cold, rather like contemplating sex with
Michaelangelo's statue of David. So much for personal taste. However,
there were a number of treats this evening, one I had been waiting for
since the Olympics began, another quite unexpected, just now as I was
writing this note.
First, Sports Illustrated had a long article on the British decathlete,
Daley Thompson, with many photos. Thompson's mother is Nigerian,
his father Scottish, and he is incredibly handsome. Thus, I was eager
to catch the 400 meter race this evening. Unfortunately, the 400 meters
does not lend itself to the kind of sensual super-slo-mo so popular
in the gymnastics events, nor does it last an entire evening. I had to
be content with the 40-odd seconds it took to see him win.
Just now, in the wrestling competition, Bruce Baumgartner, a 275 lb.
lumbering giant, easily defeated his Turkish opponent. "Prime beef" is
probably the best phrase to describe this guy, and the winks he threw
towards his mother and his wife once he won only added to his charm.
A "10" fer sure, if you like that sort, as I do.
I can only wonder about what the women out there drool over, unless they've
already dismissed this discussion as being intolerably silly.
By the way, have any of you seen the poster of the US Water Polo team?
I haven't yet, but word is spreading fast. Also, it seems that one
of them, Terry Schroeder, was the model for the bronze statue of the
male Olympic athlete, the one without the head, installed at the Coliseum.
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/Steve Dyer
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sdyer@bbncca.ARPAbetsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) (08/10/84)
"I can only wonder about what the women out there drool over..."
-- Steve Dyer
Well, if we restrict the field to Olympic athletes...
Did you get a close look at the divers? They, with the gymnasts, had by
far the best-looking bodies. Not that I had any complaints about the Pentathletes.
Wrestlers, however, are funny-looking.
Did everybody else find the synchronized swimming as campy as I did?
Any sport that can take Esther Williams movies seriously has a stronger stomach
than I do.
--
Betsy Perry
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