This was sent in by an alert reader, perhaps just to get the picture of her lovely grandmother giving us the finger out of there:

Top comments made by NBC sports commentators during the Summer Olympics that they would like to take back:

1. Weightlifting commentator: "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing."

2. Dressage commentator: "This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother."

3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."

4. Boxing Analyst: "Sure there have been injuries,and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious."

5. Softball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."

6. Basketball analyst: "He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces."

7. At the rowing medal ceremony: "Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew."

8. Soccer commentator: "Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."

9. Tennis commentator: "One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them... Oh my God, what have I just said?"

This is one of Cortn'33'es old friends at the Jersey Shore. She looks a little surprised that her finger is acting this way.  

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Okay, believe it or not, some people don't see Kortnee as a Team Player. What the hell is up with that?

Here's the deal: grown people are given this exercise: Break into groups of eight, stand in two lines of four people, elbow to elbow within your line, and facing the other line of four. Put your index fingers out in front of you, touching the opposite person's index fingers. A wood dowel is placed on top of this set of 16 index fingers. As a TEAM, lower the dowel to the ground, but everyone must constantly have both index fingers touching the dowel. The thing is, of course with all of the different heights of people and all, it isn't quite as easy as it sounds.

Okay, a couple of points here.

1. I am not for this type of lameass exercise where a bunch of grown people do something that no one would ever really have to do, and then extrapolate endlessly about everyone's ROLE in the GROUP, and ability or lackthereof to behave as an effective team player.

2. When Courtney gently suggested that perhaps if we were really assigned to get the dowel to the floor, we could delegate one person to do it, and the rest of us could scurry off to do something else that the team required, or at least go hang out and drink coffee, because maybe, just possibly, it didn't require a friggin team to get the dowel to the ground. Khortnee's comment was met with that Look, the "Definitely not a team player" look, and a brief lecture about how in the Real World (fuck the real world anyway, but that is a different rant), sometimes there are indeed parameters, and it is Important and Necessary to work together as a group. Jaysus.