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Comment by The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver

The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:48:01 -0800

Badmitten was an awesome band.

Comment by pragmatic

pragmatic — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:49:59 -0800

I remember seeing Chinese guys at the gym in college playing badminton all of the time. If only they had table tennis there.

Comment by Sto

Sto — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:53:38 -0800

For years I thought it was Badmington. Gotta love regional accents ...

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:58:26 -0800

It's that pesky nasal stop. Same reason people say "Clih-un" for Clinton.

Comment by tb

tb — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:03:21 -0800

I'm going to have to stop subscribing to SLOG if you keep insisting on posting shit like this. You all already average 33 items / day, which is too many. Random spelling insights are a waste of bytes.

Comment by N

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:09:11 -0800

Whoa. You just blew my mind!

Comment by left coast

left coast — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:18:36 -0800

Easy on Megan, Seinfeld made a billion dollars with these types of insights. Has anyone seen the film "I just want someone to eat cheese with", and isn't that basically a Seinfeld episode set in Chicago? It's Jeff from Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David, but still I thought he'd stretch it a little. Sexual interest from Sarah Silverman seems like a stretch but otherwise?

Comment by P to the J

P to the J — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:55:40 -0800

WHAT!?!? With this crowd and no shuttlecock jokes? I'm disappointed in you all.

Comment by I don't like you either

I don't like you either — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:30:56 -0800

"Easy on Megan"? Never. She likes to throw the word "retardedly" around like it's perfectly acceptable language for a so-called writer to use on a blog. I want to be sure her name is forever linked with that word so that she'll be a $9-an-hour wage slave for the rest of her life.

Comment by VDD

VDD — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:39:04 -0800

I don't breath when the shuttlecock is in the air. Thankfully this is not long.

Comment by ZWBush

ZWBush — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:56:12 -0800

Yeah megan. Retarded is not acceptable. Its borderline faggot to us social worker types, and anyone with a handicapped relative. So cut that fuckin shit out. Makes you sound real dumb...See better than the R word. However, Badminton is awesome, I played last weekend. I couldn't even serve to those guys. TB, if I were you I would quit reading , or get used to it, cause SLOG ain't changin!

Comment by cineaste

cineaste — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:15:07 -0800

Do you know that the shuttlecock is the fastest-moving object in all of sports? It's been clocked at over 200 mph!

Comment by yucca flower

yucca flower — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:16:55 -0800

Is this an Olympic sport like ping pong and curling?

Comment by kurt

kurt — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:35:01 -0800

sweet video, and i'm pretty sure the shuttlecock is not the fastest sports object. I'm pretty sure that Both golfballs and jai alai balls are known to be faster.

Comment by heywhatsit

heywhatsit — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:23:05 -0800

Negative @13. There IS no Olympic sport like Curling.

I'm dead serious.

Comment by cineaste

cineaste — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:21:51 -0800

# 14 --

just double-checked and, while badminton's bird has been clocked at 180 mph, jai-alai has been clocked at 188 mph.

but i'm pretty sure one of these days, an olympian will smash that record.

Comment by w7ngman

w7ngman — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:58:25 -0800

Good thing it slows down to 2mph by the time it gets to the other side.

Comment by roderego

roderego — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:13:58 -0800

By falling silent simultaneously, all thought in unison that the guy's dogs who was walking his dogs were at the point of attacking all of us.

Pot cookie minton.

Comment by Cookie W. Monster

Cookie W. Monster — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:35:19 -0800

Natalie Merchant is the worst mitten Charles Mudede's ever been smitten with.

Just sayin'.