“Hold up, I’m not clear on this part of the routine. When Celene gets to the part where she sings ‘my heart will go on’ do we start licking on the upbeat or the downbeat?”
It’s just good clean fun, Sharon H.
Meanwhile, at Practice for the Olympic Synchronized Licking Team…
Some of them need to work on getting that leg straighter.
Lol just read a thread where someone asks why female gymnasts wear long sleeves but no pants, but male gymnasts wear long pants but no sleeves. One kid replied “never thought about it, but it’s great. You get points deducted if your legs are not perfectly straight, and our pants hide a lot of that.”
Y’know, I never thought about that. Though I was watching some gymnastics last weekend and noticed one of the girls had 3/4-length sleeves on her leotard (also someone’s – I don’t remember if it was the same girl – laced down from the top and tied in a bow about mid-back. I thought the bow flopping against her would be distracting).
I would think because the uneven bars of the women’s routines depend on lower leg flexibility and gripping the apparatus with your legs, and loose pants would hinder that. Plus judges want to see the line of your muscles and form. Similarly, the rings, the high bar and the pommel horse are exercises based on upper body strength, and hot, flexing muscles want to breathe a little and judges want to see the effort involved. And spectators got to look at something.
All I can say is, “YUCKY, YUCKY!!” Those are the same tongues that lavish licks on their owners (well, providing this isn’t a group of feral kitties with NO owners)!! Yes, I let my kitties give me love-licks and I knew where that tongue could have been just moments before. But it’s still gross to think about!!
All they need now are little nose clips and terrifying waterproof makeup.
They also need those ugly ( to me) swimmers caps, to complete the look. The one in the back seems to be out of sync, points deduction. How does one come across that many cats licking themselves in the same manner? You can’t train them to do that.
Purrfect!
? Leave it to you, Allein! Having read that synchronized swimmers don’t shave their legs because the hairs help them knowhow they’re positioned, I guess cats much have an even better bead on all that.
Good pic, Allein. Murray, say what? – about not shaving? How does that work, the hairs can’t get that long.
Wait – so i can just tell people I’m a synchronized swimmer???
yes! I heard this too – wasn’t Christine Legarde on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me explaining she had been a synchronize swimmer and that they dont’ shave their legs? So they can feel where they are in the water. I can’t find it though…. Allein?
I knew I’d heard that somewhere recently but couldn’t remember where.
Not My Job: We Quiz The IMF’s Christine Lagarde On NYC’s Fiorello La Guardia
LAGARDE: When you’re a synchronized swimmer…
SAGAL: Yes.
LAGARDE: …It’s critically important that you have at least a little bit of hairs on your legs because that is actually a sensor of how high and how vertical you are in the water.
SAGAL: So it is – I’ve never heard anything like this.
POUNDSTONE: Me neither.
SAGAL: So you’re saying that synchronized swimmers need to have a little bit of hair in their legs. They can’t be completely smooth. Why is that?
LAGARDE: It’s very weird because when you’re a synchronized swimmer, if you shave your legs completely, you lose sense of where you are and how well you’re doing.
SAGAL: Oh, my God. So it’s like you’re Samson.
*Applauds*
Amazed, Allein, I’m just amazed.
The stuff I learn here. *nodding appreciatively*
And here I thought it was the cello section at the Felineharmonic Orchestra.
* snerk * 😀 😀 😀
Puntastic!
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Oh, good one!
FOURTH GEAR!!!!
It reminds me of a puppy video where a whole dog family comes outside, and the half dozen little ones all wander, and then squat at exactly the same time.
I think that one tabby on the left is showing off – he has BOTH legs up in some kind of weird Thanksgiving turkey pose.
I had the same thought. Reminds me of this, too …
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/525654587754461031/
I think there’s another cat behind it (see what I did there?) but like your interpretation better!
Okay now I see the jumble of white body parts to the right of the tabby’s head. I think you’re right 🙂
Yes, I also thought it was one cat performing the rare and challenging Two-legged Butt Wash.
Cat buttz.
I’m just gonna leave this here
That explains so much.
I. Knew. It. Hahahahaha.
Love the hovertext! Has me singing The Producers songs now……