The Bomb Squad Olympiad Starts Today 43
The bomb suit relay and the robot obstacle course are just two of the events you can enjoy at the Bomb Squad Olympiad. Over the next three days squads from across South Carolina will compete and showcase their bomb defusing capabilities for the public. I hear the deep fried dynamite is especially good.
I'm so sorry (Score:3, Funny)
"This event is no flash-in-the-pan"
"We've had an explosive reaction"
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"We have too many people over by the bomb-making tent. Looks like we'll have to diffuse the situation."
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"We have too many people over by the bomb-making tent. Looks like we'll have to diffuse the situation."
Wait a second, that's a pun *and* a bomb joke. Don't you go being too clever on us, y'hear?
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in latest news: the competition was cancelled due to terrorist threat
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The popularity of this event is really blowing up, this year.
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Anyone who attends is sure to have a blast!
Deep fried dynamite (Score:4, Insightful)
I hear the deep fried dynamite is especially good.
Don't believe it-- it will give you a headache.
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Don't believe it-- it will give you a headache.
And how!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFgCu0uMWB0 [youtube.com]
(What, they canceled it? I'm totally shocked!)
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Hook and Line contest (Score:2)
They own NO robots (Score:3, Insightful)
They have a radio-controlled platform with manually controlled servos. How is THAT a robot? It does absolutely NOTHING autonomously (except rust).
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Hrm... http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/10/ratcar.html [makezine.com]
First thing that came to mind (Score:5, Funny)
http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/stacey83/bomb.jpg [ebaumsworld.com]
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ebaumsworld?
that thing's still going?
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It was popular in the 90's, first site I recognized in Google image search
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They were probably the first site to steal that picture.
For me, IT Crowd S4E5 clip... (Score:2)
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtCe-Szsj0c [youtube.com] ... I laughed so hard when I saw this, and I still laugh!
Olympiad? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Because they'd be sued into dust if they dared use the word "Olympics"?
PS your bigotry is showing.
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No, no, I agree with the GP. I live in South Carolina, and there are plenty of hillbillies here.
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Because they'd be sued into dust if they dared use the word "Olympics"?
PS your bigotry is showing.
So? Don't. Does World Games, err, Championship not sound big enough for some local excuse to get drunk?
So is yours.
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In other news, the accepted use of words can change over the span of 2,700 years. I suppose those hillbillies must also be running all the Math Olympiads and Science Olympiads all over the world?
Fun factoid: the "Science Olympiad" originated in North Carolina. Another one: the meaning changed to wrong for the first couple of Olympic games, but then turned back to right again.
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It may be in South Carolina now, but I believe it originated in Atlanta.
What? Too soon?
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Tell that to NBC when they broadcast the "Olympiad" every four years (and promote ad nauseum)
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My Mistake (Score:2)
And here I thought you were talking about the Commonwealth Games!
Although I'm sure that the Delhi bomb squad folks are having some sleepless nights, they probably won't win any medals.
Off-color jokes... (Score:2)
The opportunities just defy belief...
- It's in South Carolina (A redneck's last words? "Hey, y'all...watch this!")
- It involves explosives (ibid.)
- It's being held at a HIGH SCHOOL, for God's sake. What about a high school is the best place to hold EOD activities, even simulated ones?
Oblig. (Score:2)
What could possibly go wrong?
Cynic (Score:1)