The Bomb Squad Olympiad Starts Today

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

[fridaynightsmoke]

"With the current emphasis on security demand for bomb disposal expertise is booming."
"This event is no flash-in-the-pan"
"We've had an explosive reaction"

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[Pojut]

"We have too many people over by the bomb-making tent. Looks like we'll have to diffuse the situation."

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[robot256]

"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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[Chowderbags]

"Someone left a dirty bomb in the toilet!"

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[Kvasio]

in latest news: the competition was cancelled due to terrorist threat

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[Seumas]

The popularity of this event is really blowing up, this year.

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[Dannon]

Anyone who attends is sure to have a blast!

Deep fried dynamite

[Geoffrey.landis]

I hear the deep fried dynamite is especially good.

Don't believe it-- it will give you a headache.

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[SuricouRaven]

I'm not sure if the joke is intentional or not, as headaches actually do result from handling dynamite. The explosive used is nitroglycerin (Dynamite is just nitroglycerin made safe to handle), which can be absorbed through the skin. It causes headaches.

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[RevWaldo]

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

[name_already_taken]

Who else is reminded of this [google.com] by the description of the "Hook and Line" contest?

They own NO robots

[professorguy]

Robots? ROBOTS!?!?

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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[elrous0]

Ever since those "robot wars" shows in the 90's, people seem to have taken to calling any glorified RC car a "robot." I remember when a robot had to be autonomous (or at least semi-autonomous) to be consider a "robot" as opposed to "remote-controlled mobile servo device." Hell, we had remote-controlled toys like this when I was a kid, and no one considered them robots.

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[Steauengeglase]

Hrm... http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/10/ratcar.html [makezine.com]

First thing that came to mind

[watermark]

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/stacey83/bomb.jpg [ebaumsworld.com]

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[Canazza]

ebaumsworld?
that thing's still going?

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[watermark]

It was popular in the 90's, first site I recognized in Google image search

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[Ihmhi]

They were probably the first site to steal that picture.

For me, IT Crowd S4E5 clip...

[antdude]

... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtCe-Szsj0c [youtube.com] ... I laughed so hard when I saw this, and I still laugh!

Olympiad?

[CheerfulMacFanboy]

Okay, sure, it's an event limited to South Carolina, and it's a yearly event, not every 4 years. I can live with that. But the Olympiad is the time between the games, you hillbillies.

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[DNS-and-BIND]

Because they'd be sued into dust if they dared use the word "Olympics"?

PS your bigotry is showing.

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[Kierthos]

No, no, I agree with the GP. I live in South Carolina, and there are plenty of hillbillies here.

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[CheerfulMacFanboy]

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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[kevinNCSU]

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?

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[CheerfulMacFanboy]

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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[StikyPad]

It may be in South Carolina now, but I believe it originated in Atlanta.

What? Too soon?

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[bobcote]

Tell that to NBC when they broadcast the "Olympiad" every four years (and promote ad nauseum)

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[CheerfulMacFanboy]

NBC [nbcolympics.com] seems to be pretty sure they broadcast the "Olympics", the "Olympic Games", or the "Games of the nth Olympiad". Which is the same thing by slightly different names, and not the Olympiad. But please do enlighten us.

My Mistake

[The Yuckinator]

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...

[Shoten]

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.

[Eudial]

What could possibly go wrong?

Cynic

[severn2j]

The cynical amongst us might think this sort of thing just reinforces the idea that "Terrorists are among us!" and we should give lots of tax and civil liberties to the government to "protect" us.. But that's just cynicism, right?