Texas Swimming

Friday, November 15, 2013

Quote of the Day

Insanity in individuals is something

rare - but in groups, parties, nations,

and epochs, it is the rule.

(via The Vienna Review)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Quote of the Day

An empty head is not really empty; it is

stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty

of forcing anything into an empty head.

(via The Weekly Standard)

Eric Hoffer

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

It's been a season of firsts:

Utah defeated Arizona in a men's dual.

Rice downed SMU in a women's dual.

Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida.

SwimScam credited a source.*

TCU just added another - their men defeated SMU's for the first time ever, 177.5 to 122.5!

*Just kidding!

Quote of the Day

You can't get any movement larger

than five people without including

at least one flippin' idiot.

(via Bytes)

Kim Stanley Robinson

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Quote of the Day

Party leads to vicious, corrupt, and

unprofitable legislation, for the

sole purpose of defeating party.

(via The B.S. Report)

James Fenimore Cooper

Friday, November 08, 2013

Chuck Norris Was Here

(via Texas Humor Twitter)

Quote of the Day

Let us heed the voice of the people and

recognize their common sense. If we

do not, we not only blaspheme our

political heritage, we ignore the

common ties that bind all Americans.

(via Austin NOW)

Barbara Charline Jordan

Thursday, November 07, 2013

Quote of the Day

Tonight on 20/20, Barbara Walters interviewed

the new King of Saudi Arabia about women's

rights and Walters asked why the King

doesn't let women drive cars. The King

answered with two words: Lindsay Lohan.

(via NBC News)

Conan Christopher O'Brien

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Let's see if I got this straight:

Kids in California can choose to "cross over" to a different gender for athletic purposes?

(via The Escapist)

Check out California Assembly Bill 1266 here. Governor Brown signed it into law back in August.

This bill would require that a pupil be permitted to participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil’s records.

Soooo...if Johnny thinks (s)he's really a Janie, (s)he can suit up for the swim meet in the female locker room and swim in the girl's meet?

Wonder if any of the legislators who sent this garbage to the governor would be okay with their daughters being put in that situation!

Thanks for the heads up, RR!

Quote of the Day

A study in the Washington Post says that women

have better verbal skills than men. I just want

to say to the authors of that study: Duh!

(via TEAMCOCO)

Conan Christopher O'Brien

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Quote of the Day

According to a new survey, 40 percent of

adults in Mexico say they would move to

the United States if they got a chance. The

number would have been higher, but

the other 60 percent already live here.

(vie New York Times)

Conan Christopher O'Brien

Monday, November 04, 2013

Quote of the Day

The results of a new study are out this week

saying that New Jersey is one of the most

livable states in the country. The study

has a margin of error of 100 percent.

(via New York Times)

Conan Christopher O'Brien

Sunday, November 03, 2013

Quote of the Day

The worst moment for the atheist is when he

is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

(via Wikipedia)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Saturday, November 02, 2013

Excuses, Excuses...

(via Hub Pages)

Reading first comment on this post the other day reminded me of some older posts on excuses. Here are a few shared by coaches on TOC:

Had one miss yesterday because he got hit in the back with an instrument this weekend at Area Band competition.... He is out for a week.

I had a kid tell me he couldnt practice because he was claustophobic in his helmet, and it made him not able to breathe...

Heard both of these this week:

1. Coach I can't come to practice today, I have mandatory show qhoir tryouts for Beauty and the Beast.

2. Coach I can't go to the game Friday. I have to go visit my dad in prison before they transfer him to South Dakota.

My mom has a date with my uncle and I have to stay home and watch my brother and my cousins.

I have to stay at home because my new step-mom (mail order bride from Russia) went crazy and pulled a gun on my dad because my real mom came home from her year long trip to Amsterdam and she did not know that I had a new mom and they got in a fight. I have to stay home for 2 days so I can visit my mom.

"Coach I can't work out today. My parents told me I have lactic acid in my muscles and it hurts really bad."

Had a kid a few years back that came to me after the morning workout...."Hey coach, I won't be here this afternoon or in the morning for practice. I'm getting married at 1:00 at the courthouse and my mother-in-law has got us a room at the Best Western."

Had a kid once tell me he had to miss because his aunt's cat was having kittens.

I have to take my dog to obedience class

When I was playing, one of my teammates missed a weeks worth of practice because he wiped his butt with poison oak.

Had a kid last year give me a note from his parent that said "Please excuse so and so from football practice today. He is allergic to grass and cannot get in the grass. The Dr. said he can get on grass next week."

Full posts:

Excuses for Missing Practices

More Excuses

Still More Excuses

Even More Excuses

Tex Robertson

Ross Lucksinger, grandson of the late Tex Robertson, will do a "meet the author" event in Burnet tomorrow.

Lucksinger recently released Tex: The Father of Texas Swimming. Read more here.

“The tales got so tall and the legend so big, part of it was just trying to find out what was the truth,” Lucksinger said. “It turns out, most of it was actually true.”

Robertson is a Burnet County icon. He and his wife established Camp Longhorn on Inks Lakes in 1939 before adding Camp Longhorn Indian Springs, also in Burnet County, in 1975. But it wasn’t just his work at the camp that made Robertson such a legend, it was his entire life.

Born Julian Robertson in 1909, he earned an international reputation as a swimmer with trips to the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and by winning championships as a member of the University of Michigan swim team.

Get your copy here or here.