Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Finished competing in your event? Let the games begin!

Date:	August 23, 2004 / year-entry #316
Tags:	non-computer
Orig Link:	https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040823-00/?p=38083
Comments:	10
Summary:	Ten thousand human beings in peak physical condition. All in one dormitory complex. With 130,000 free condoms. Let the games begin! And you have to tip your hat (tam?) to The Scotsman for finding an athlete named "Randy Jones" for this article.

Ten thousand human beings in peak physical condition. All in one dormitory complex. With 130,000 free condoms. Let the games begin!

And you have to tip your hat (tam?) to The Scotsman for finding an athlete named "Randy Jones" for this article.

Comments (10)

Alex Papadimoulis says:

August 23, 2004 at 8:49 am

"In the Sydney 2000 Games, each competing athlete was given 51 condoms on arrival at the Olympic Village, but another 20,000 had to be shipped in when supplies began to run low."

!!!
Sean Gephardt says:

August 23, 2004 at 10:03 am

I bet this part of the Olympis won’t be on "Must see TV".
Duncan says:

August 23, 2004 at 11:10 am

Tam = hat ?? (sf) Tam O Shanter

http://www.tamoshanter.free-online.co.uk/tamoshanter.htm
foo says:

August 24, 2004 at 1:18 am

Now, isn’t this much more interesting than /3GB? :-)
Tom M says:

August 24, 2004 at 2:25 am

More inspirational towards actually getting up and doing some exercise than the actual olympics.
James says:

August 24, 2004 at 11:54 am

Not a single person on this forum had better object. Every one of you knows exactly what you would be doing if you had a ripped body carved from stone and were surrounded by the same.

Don’t lie. Don’t be a hypocrite.

James
D "Big Stud" says:

August 24, 2004 at 3:23 pm

> Not a single person on this forum had better object. Every one of you knows exactly what you would be doing if you had a ripped body carved from stone and were surrounded by the same.

Hmm…

No, I don’t know. What would I be doing? ;)

Would we be discussing the best practices of programming in .NET?
jj says:

September 1, 2004 at 7:21 pm

hi
Joe White's Blog says:

September 1, 2004 at 10:32 pm
Mark says:

September 18, 2004 at 7:02 pm

They’ve got their marketing strategies down to a fine art (e.g. exclusive you-can’t-use-any-other-credit-card arrangements), it’s time to look for new revenue opportunities.

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