The Next Great American Distance Runner

[Cooter Brown]

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/537160.html

The first runner, Auburn Staples, took only about 8 minutes to run the first two miles. He dunked his doughnuts in water and stuffed them in his mouth, his cheeks pudgy with sugary dough.

Staples, an N.C. State senior, finished his dozen in about seven minutes and sprinted back down Peace Street. Standing 6 feet and weighing 141 pounds, Staples finished first, in 24 minutes, 31 seconds, beating his time last year by more than six minutes.

Wow. Two 4 minute miles, down a dozen donuts and follow it up with 2 sub 5-minute miles. Not too shabby.

[bad hammy]

(Breaking the) wind aided??

[tandfman]

Re: The Next Great American Distance Runner

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/537160.html

[i]The first runner, Auburn Staples, took only about 8 minutes to run the first two miles. . . .

I wonder if either the writer or her newspaper realize how much they damage their reputation and credibility when they print nonsense like that. I doubt it.

[dr ngo]

No problem, y'all

Y'all got to realize that things are a bit more relaxed here in the South (even in the People's Republic of Chapel Hill), and a "mile" is not nearly as rigorous - or as long - as it is in more anal-obsessive societies. Why, one might define a "mile" here as "the approximate distance a college student hungry for donuts can run in about four minutes"!

[tandfman]

You mean we're talking about the reputation and credibility of the entire South? Gee, I didn't things were that bad below the M-D line.

[Helen S]

I was suprised it took 7 minutes to eat the dozen - by volume, wouldn't a dozen krispy kremes mash down to about the size of a grapefruit?

[kuha]

I was suprised it took 7 minutes to eat the dozen - by volume, wouldn't a dozen krispy kremes mash down to about the size of a grapefruit?

Actually, I think, the size of a golf ball.

[dj]

You mean we're talking about the reputation and credibility of the entire South? Gee, I didn't things were that bad below the M-D line.

Probably no worse than acreages (expecially when it's for sale) in New England. "Yup, 40 acres, . . . more or lessss."

[tafnut]

You mean we're talking about the reputation and credibility of the entire South? Gee, I didn't things were that bad below the M-D line.

having lived my first 18 years in New England and the last 14 waaay down South, I can tell you with full authority that people jist ain't no difrint nowheres. The cultures are quite different, but the people . . . they's jist the same.

[26mi235]

You mean we're talking about the reputation and credibility of the entire South? Gee, I didn't things were that bad below the M-D line.

having lived my first 18 years in New England and the last 14 waaay down South, I can tell you with full authority that people jist ain't no difrint nowheres. The cultures are quite different, but the people . . . they's jist the same.

Are we to understand that these are the regionally approved spellings (or was that Tori)?
[edited one time: You can tell that my two years in south Texas are 20 years in the past.]

[tafnut]

Are we to understand tat these are the regionally approved spellings (or was that Tori)?

hey fren, ah'm jist atellin it lahk I sees it!

[SQUACKEE]

Are we to understand tat these are the regionally approved spellings (or was that Tori)?

hey fren, ah'm jist atellin it lahk I sees it!

Ahh doan know bah daat. That dog doan huuunt.

[tandfman]

Oh, Lord, what did I start? :roll: