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September 3, 2008

Freestyle Canoeing Is There Inside Your Mind

I don't know if this is a joke or what, but it's even funnier than Olympic speed walking: freestyle canoeing, which, from this clip, appears to involve dressing up in a costume and "dancing" in a canoe in front of an audience while music plays. Phantom Of The Opera:

I love that so much. Via John Hodgman, who discovered that "you don't need a special canoe to participate."

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Favorite part... the applause from his audience. They sound really impressed.

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what

Surely there's a league of people like this in DC. I have to find and become a member of it asap.

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bingo gas station

I want to see his how to succeed in business without really trying performance.

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lordofendsville

Here we go, another whiteman taking another cultures fable traditions down as their own. The native americas of the Areowac and Potomac have been spinning mad canoe skills for three hundred years before this masked asshole.

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Captain Needa

I'd like to see Jason Vorhees come out of the water and take this guy down.

Posted by: Captain Needa profile link at 09/04/08 11:43 AM | Reply
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