B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 16, 2018

“That’s About It !”

Especially if you use on the ski jump.

no bones about it, it is a dangerous sport kind of like sky diving with a winged suit

“if” you reach the bottom.

No, you’ll be all there just in one big red wet spot. Well there might be about 30% of you spread along the course, but that will help the EMTs find you.

Your screaming helps steer it a little.

Well, don’t know about the rest of your body, but you will never experience athlete’s foot again.

I watched some of the Skeleton runs last night. Some of those folks were hitting 80 miles per hour, laying face down on a very small sled that looked to be about 2" above the ice. More power to ’em, I say!

…head first…

in this modern age they still use the Flintstone’s brakes. LOL

If it weren’t a real Olympic event I’d say it was a Monty Python skit.

Reminds me of Robin Williams Golf skit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSXMS8ABAAU

CAUTION EXTREME LANGUAGE – Rated “R”

“Who was that?”

“He didn’t say…”

I suspect Skeleton was invented when somebody bet their friend they couldn’t go down the Luge track headfirst and he replied “hold my beer”.

Actually, it’s not THAT much different than the sleds with steel runners that so many kids used 30 and more years ago. You could steer the sled a little with the cross bar that twisted the runners, and it was more like 4 or 5 inches above the snow, and of course the longest and steepest fairway on the local golf course converted to sledding wasn’t quite as vicious, but it was based on the same principals. I’d be more afraid to luge.

IMO, lugers have to be a special kind of crazy!