I’m flipping channels , and I suddenly see two guys trying not to have sex with each other .
Oh, sorry, that’s a SPORT!
HUH?
Who invented this, and what was he smokin’?
Sure, I was a kid once, and loved sledding down snowbanks. But I did it facing forwards. It just seems more logical that way, you know.
And I might even have done it with a friend, too. But we were kids, ya know what I mean.
Because somewhere in my life, I was subtly and gradually introduced to the concept that grown men don’t lie down on top of each other in public.
If you want to make a suicidal run down a bobsled chute , but without a bobsled, okay, I’ll let you call it a sport. But why do it with two guys on top of each other?
Why not three? Or a whole stack-- a dozen guys, all roped together?
During the 2002 Olympics, a bunch of my classmates were out drinking and started making the predictable jokes about two-man luge. One guy from my lab, who was particularly drunk, appeared to be under the impression that it was actually a coed event, and started going on about what a great idea it was. This conversation ended with him loudly announcing “It doesn’t matter if you’re on the top or on the bottom. It’s a win-win situation!”
By the time I graduated some 18 months later, he hadn’t yet lived that one down, and the phrase “win-win situation” still has the power to crack me up.
Dude, while I appreciate a good immature giggle as much as the next guy, I think the folks doing the 2-man luge will be too busy trying not to die a horrible death to try anything funny.
okay, I appologize for the immature humor. I was trying to be funny, and sexual innuendo is good for cheap laughs. And you gotta admit that is a silly sport.
But what I really want to know is - why the hell did anybody invent the 2 man luge?
Who was the first guy who said “hey, this is so much fun, I bet it would be better with somebody else underneath me?” And if your gonna do it with 2, why not with 3 or 4 people? For that matter, why not just do it sitting upright, and go down on your butt (like a water slide at a swimming pool).
Reminds me of a joke during the winter olympics (by Jay Leno):
"Look at that 4-man bobsled competition. The front guy steers, the guy in the back operates the brakes.So tell me-- what are those 2 guys in the middle doing? But imagine them on the airplane flying to the Olympic site–a 12 hour flight. They must be saying “Wow, this is great— Look at all this legroom!!!”
Hee hee hee. I suspect they’re there for the same reason most things in winter sports are there - for no apparent reason whatsoever. I mean, look at the other sports at the Winter Olympics - curling. Biathlon. Skeleton. What is the reasoning behind these sports? NOBODY KNOWS. Curling and biathlon are spectacularly pointless (which makes them strangely fascinating to watch) and skeleton is just plain suicidal. Think luge, but head-first. Then again if you’re going 130km/h it probably doesn’t matter which end points forward when you crash.
