1988 Seoul
The Freddy Mercury Karaoke Contest
I don’t have cable.
I do have rabbit ear antennae that pick up CCTV from a nearby parking garage when the wind’s blowin’ up a gale. Needless to say, I can’t watch the Olympics at home. What I can do (and did) is make funny happenstance with the history of Olympic Pictograms.
The following are all real depictions of particular sporting events (from the denoted year/city), Â some of which I have no clue what they’re representing. So, I do what I did in college; make shit up.
1980 Moscow
The Hilarious Sport of ‘Falling on Pavement’. AÂ slight alteration –
  – turns to ‘Singing in the Rain’
The riveting sport of ‘Kneeling…Staring’
My personal favorite, “Foreplay!”
1964 Tokyo
The Sport of “I’m not Angry with you, just disappointed”
The Best Portrayal of Luke hanging from the antenna at the end of ‘Empire Strikes Back’
Leia! 10 points
2012 London
Synchronized swimming (I actually got this one)
A little rotation and….
Synchronized Pole Dancing!
Okay, another swimming one – a little rotation…
…and, we get a creeper with a fake arm – or John Wilkes Boothe.
2000 Sydney
?
Hammer Time!
1984 Los Angeles
Chick-fil-a Sponsored Event
Aggressive Man Kissing
1976 Montreal
A Comique
Future Olympics
In the near future, Chess will be an olympic sporting event. Until then, it’s a game of ‘I’m seeing someone else”.
-Mike-
all pictograms are from the amazing Olympic Museum Website (http://olympic-museum.de/pictograms/Picto1988.htm)
ROAM ABOUT MIKE 
pure awesomeness.
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thank you! Thought I might be too random with this one…
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Brilliant, hahaha…Hammer time is awesome!
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I wish ‘Hammer Time’ were an actual event.
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Could not stop laughing! Still can’t.
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Thank you, Ma’am – Congrats again on being Freshly Pressed! Definitely well deserved
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Thank you very much!
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i love the olympics, but i might love them more if they had pictograms like this!
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Freddy Mercury was for you.
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I would be less upset about baseball and softball getting the Olympic boot if “Singing in the Rain” would have replaced them.
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The judging will be fierce!
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A perfect way to start my Friday =o)
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As always, thanks Brad. Glad you haven’t tired of the insanity of these posts.
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Mike, why don’t you take these and do a Gallagher-like stand-up thing (maybe not Gallagher) but that weird red-haired guy comedian on steroids now — what’s his name? I actually met the guy once and I can’t remember his name. Anyway, he’s not always funny but you are and you could take these signs and pull them out of a chest or something. With your other freaking hilarious stuff. I’m serious.
I went without cable for years and had rabbit ears and was blissfully happy about it. I live somewhere now where I can’t pick up channels with cable. Wish I could go back. Trust me, you’re not missing anything.
And I’m tired of the Olympics already too. (Synchronized pole dancing — brilliant)
This was great — better than the Olympics — thank you.
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That’s not a bad idea, Brigitte…
I might have to look in this. THough, i will be better than that one guy with orangish red hair who looks like a Satan Clown on roids.
Netflix is a heaven sent, and I can find anything I want to watch on the interwebs.
Haha, thanks for always commenting!
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This is “I need to mute myself in the office” funny.
He’s sitting in a martini….hahahaha
I’m reblogging.
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Reblogged this on Someone Fat Happened and commented:
I haven’t been watching the Olympics but now I feel all caught up. Thanks to Roam About Mike for the update.
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Dude, you’re freaking awesome. Thanks so much! My readers are the bestest.
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No you are!
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1964 Tokyo killed me. I laughed hard enough to get a stern look from my dog. I don’t think she was angry though, just disapponted.
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Bwahaha! Thanks, Rob!
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singin’ in the rain looks a whole lot like the fabulous Olympic sport of Pole Dancing
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ok so then i kept reading (I have to comment as I go or it’s gone forever) and there you have pole dancing. well, at least great minds think alike.
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I was going to go with a ‘magic mike’ reference…great minds indeed!
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This was great.. Love how the Synchronized swimmers can compete in 2 events (Pole dancing).. Double the chance for gold!!
🙂
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A very versatile group. Win a gold medal, get a dollar tip
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haha..touche’
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hello, mike… oh, i happen to like the singing in the rain over the others – simple, classic and funny. it never fails, haha 😉 cheers!
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Would you want to see it as an Olympic sport? 🙂
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yeah! why not? it’d be fun to see each nation rep interpreting his or her idea of balance, haha 😉
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I like it!
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So, so funny! Thanks for the laughs!
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Thank YOU for reading
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This is effing hilarious.
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Thanks! A lot of thought and beer went into this…
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Hilarious! John Wilkes Booth. Awesome.
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Too soon?
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Reblogged this on gottopickapocketortwo and commented:
Too funny, I’m still laughing!
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Yes! Thanks so much for reblogging!
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These are absolutely hilarious. Great job at creating oh-such-accurate meanings of these pictograms! Great post 😀
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Hopefully, the Olympics will use my versions for summer 2016 in Rio. Thanks!!
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