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Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

Colbert Report

I can't stop smiling, him being in Canada is just so awesome.

I can't wait until the next time the Olympics are in Montreal so I can see him there.

Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

And it just got funnier.

Posted by Raymond Arnold (Member # 11712) on :

I was glad for the Peekaboo Street shout out. She's the only Olympian I ever genuinely felt motivated to root.

Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :

You know, he's a lot closer to Montreal when he's at home than he is when he's in Vancouver. Canada is a big country!

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

Also, by the time the Olympics are in Montreal again, the Colbert Report probably won't be on the air.

Posted by Clive Candy (Member # 11977) on :

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They reveal this after the advertisement.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

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She's the only Olympian I ever genuinely felt motivated to root.

"sudo slalom"?

Posted by Raymond Arnold (Member # 11712) on :

Googling that in quotation marks gives me exactly one result which wasn't helpful.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

I'm actually surprised that it returns a result.

Posted by Raymond Arnold (Member # 11712) on :

The result was, oddly enough, a forum post. And it wasn't this one. Which is weird now that I think about it. (Does it take a while for the Google Bots to find new forum posts?)

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

Try Googling "sudo root," if you want to get the joke. [Smile]

Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

I understood sudo but not the slalom bit.

Posted by Raymond Arnold (Member # 11712) on :

I don't think the joke actually made all that much sense. I forgot to say "for" after "root," which is I think what prompted it. Tom picked a phrase that happened to also include root, then took the word root out of it and replaced it with a word for a type of ski race. Which leaves us with a joke with so many words rearranged that it essentially has nothing to do with what I originally said, and by the time I figured out why it was funny I had done so much work thinking about it that it wasn't funny anymore.

Unless I'm still missing something.