At some time in our past, we invented diving. It most likely started off as just one guy showing off a fun little trick, a new and flashy head-first way to insert one’s self into the water. One of his friends tried it and wasn’t very good at it, and the ‘belly flop’ was created.
People being what they are, the guys started trying to top one another, showing off, adding tricks like a flip or the ‘cannonball’. They began diving off higher things and ‘high diving’ was born. Eventually, when a few people got good at doing these tricks, they started to refer to diving as a sport. So naturally, it ended up in the Olympics.
Then, one strange and magical day, it happens… Someone comes up with the idea of two people doing the exact same dive at the exact same time, one right next to the other, and thus was synchronized diving thrust upon the world… (I think they just stole this idea from Esther Williams and her synchronized swimming, but whatever)… Because if watching one person dive into a pool with some fancy flourishes is fun, then watching two people do it has to be… at least twice as much fun, right?
Am I the only person who doesn’t get it?
Oh, I admit that in super slow motion on a big screen, hi-def TV, it does look sort of cool. But so does almost everything on the planet. And synchronized diving was invented before big screen TVs and hi-def.
And why stop at any particular number of people? Why not eight divers, or twenty, or forty? How cool would that be to watch?
And why not try it with other sports as well? Synchronized archery, or bowling or javelin throwing or tidilywinks or calf roping or weight lifting or hoola-hooping… (wait, that might actually be cool to watch)…
I guess synchronized running would be stupid. Everyone would cross the finish line at the same time. How could we tell who won? Although, now that I think about it, synchronized hurdle jumping has some potential.
Maybe we could even stretch this phenomenon into every day life. I, for one, would love to see synchronized house painting, or accounting. And synchronized road repair would not only be fun to watch, the construction workers might actually get some work done. You usually don’t even see those guys working by themselves. I would even pay to see thirty McDonald’s employees at a long grill, all cooking and flipping their meat-like product, then slapping together their two all-almost-all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions and sesame seed buns at exactly the same time. Extra points if they don’t make too big of a splash!
These, I am sorry to say, are the kinds of thoughts that run rampant through my mind. But it does feel nice to have people to share them with. And it does lessen the burden on my family and friends, who used to have to listen to me spout these things out.
Now I just have to decide if I am going to do funny Photoshop pictures of synchronized events for the next few days, or if I should just leave it to your imagination.
Pouring My Art Out 
Let us not forget Solo Synchronized Swimming!
Oh, yeah… the world needs more synchronized solo events.
And to think it was an Olympic event for a few games.
Really? How can anything you do by yourself not be synchronized? Or is it just timed to music, like dancing?
In the end, there can be only one!
It worked and it was awesome.
I got nothin’. You’re hysterical and so is everyone else. If I were twins, we’d be laughing in synchronicity.
Synchronized laughing… I would pay to see that… with twins, even better.
Please do the photos. I did okay at fencing, but I’m not too great at the other Olympic games. Guess those medals from the dollar store will be about all I’ll ever see.
I play with padded swords and wooden knives with a friend of mine… we call it combat training, but it is really playing. I love fencing.
So fun. We play Mario Olympics on the wii.
I do the Wii fit…learning some yoga… I can do the tree.
Impressive. I can pretend I can walk. 😉
You could fall out of the chair again and do the downward facing dog… Ha!
That was funny.
Oh, good… I was afraid I went too far that time.
You? Never. I love it when people make cripple jokes about me.
For real. It is funny…
I will try to think up some good ones… just for you.
Or how about synchronized singing? Or synchronized clapping? Syncronized facial dancing? That might be cool. I bet you’re just confused cuz you want to try it, don’t you?
I can’t find anybody who moves with my cat-like grace. But I am way ahead of you on that synchronized singing thing… stay tuned.
Haha, well done. It could be like watching Rockette gymnastics!
You are on to something there.
I’m still trying to figure out why badminton is an Olympic sport.
Because it is the only sport with a thing that you hit that purposefully slows itself down right after you hit it. How cool is that? It has brakes.
Or Mel Brooks’ synchronized swimming nuns.
The world needs more of that.
I’m confused. When did Ethel Merman start doing symchronized swimming?. Maybe you mean Esther Williams. Ethel Merman was the big-voiced singer who did ‘Gypsy’ and ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ on Broadway.
I watched the symchronized swimming. I keep waiting for a Greg Louganis repeat and seeing 2 people hit their head on the diving board at the same time. That would be kind of cool. Providing the weren’t injured that is; well, unless they’re from some terrorist country or something.
I meant diving, no swimming. Also, I spelled synchronized wrong. Just thought that I correct that so people won’t think I’m a TOTAL idiot.
Nobody thinks you are a total anything… or something like that…
Oh, crap. yet another of my mistakes goes down in history. Quick edit. Thanks.
And I like the synchronized injury event idea. I think they should freeze the pool.
Nobody but you caught that. You da man!
Wasn’t Ethel Merman in ‘It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad world? Or am I just confused again?
Still, Merman is a great name for a swimmer…
Yeah, I think she was in MMMMWorld. She was also on two episodes of That Girl. It is a great name for a swimmer because of the whole connection to mermaid thing.
That is where I was going with that.
come on guys..the swimmer was ester williams..sheeeesh
I always get those two confused.
heres my problem..once you leave the platform..dosent gravity take over..i believe issac newton predicted both divers would hit the water at the same time…i think it should be called synchronized falling. hey thanks for the comment. lilly
I just don’t have the sport gene.
Pretty brilliant observation!
You mean Lilly or Newton?… Ha!
whoa..thanks..cant wait to tell deep throat..hey dt im brilliant.
Cannot watch anyone dive, scared they’ll break their necks.
They should freeze the pool… that would add some excitement. And cut down on the splashing… sort of… ha.
Noir, very noir, funny nonetheless!
Nar… she wer’nt noir, nor were she gnar… she had nary a noirness to ‘er, no more noir than a nor’-by-nor’-west bound narwhale. Narely a noir did’st she contain, no, not narry a note of noir, neither near nor far. Noir would not know ‘er, nor she noir. Her noir is nowhere…
(As a Nineteenth century Captain of a New England Whaling vessel might well say, whilst at his cups!)
This is why I am so adamant about your writing, you’re good at it and you are versatile.
That’s it, that’s all you’re getting today.
Well. I did a post today with no pictures.
No you are not the only person that doesn’t get it but I do enjoy watching someone do something I can’t do. In my opinion I think you should make as many Photoshop pictures as you want, I think everyone gets a little anxious when the Olympics come out…. perfect time to get your Olympic Meme’s going. Here is a perfect example of what the Olympics can do for our entertainment. http://chzderp.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/hurr-durr-derp-face-something-is-afoot1.jpg
I looked at the link and it worked. Sometimes my computer doesn’t like those things. It was funny.
My biggest worry about the olympics is that my wife records so much that our DVR gets full. I don’t want any of my shows to get bumped.
Thanks for the comment. And I see you work for Boeing. We toured the big hanger in Seattle. It was awesome.
Yes I do work for Boeing I work in the huge factory in Everett, thanks so much for the reply. And tell your wife she can watch all the events from the Olympics free on NBC http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html
Thanks. I will tell her. We have relatives in Seattle, so we make it there once in a while. It is beautiful.
I like how your mind works. But isn’t this how things operate in China already?
Do the photos please!
You mean China operates in synchronized fashion, or China operates like my brain?… because they might declare war on you if you meant that.
The former of course, anyway they’d have to find me first
Do not play hide and seek with China… they have too many people looking.
Like right now? looking now? I’m pulling the blinds down
Olly olly oxen free… Ha!