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Perfect Ten Dives: Where Every Belly Flop Gets a Score
Some people watch the news and get angry. I watch the news and reach for a scorecard. Every week there is another leap off the high board (announced at full volume, executed with total confidence) and every week the landing is the same: flat, loud, and soaking everyone in the front row. At some point I stopped flinching and started judging. Perfect form. Perfect commitment. Perfect ten... for the wrong event.
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Perfect Ten Dives: Where Every Belly Flop Gets a Score
Some people watch the news and get angry. I watch the news and reach for a scorecard. Every week there is another leap off the high board (announced at full volume, executed with total confidence) and every week the landing is the same: flat, loud, and soaking everyone in the front row. At some point I stopped flinching and started judging. Perfect form. Perfect commitment. Perfect ten... for the wrong event. -
Hold Up Your Scorecard ~ Every Dive a Perfect Ten
There is a kind of athlete who marches to the end of the board, announces the most difficult dive ever attempted by anyone in recorded history, and then belly-flops so hard the lifeguards flinch. And here is the part that gets me every time... he climbs out of the pool absolutely certain he nailed it. We built a whole collection for that man. It is called Every Dive a Perfect Ten , and it just went live on the shop. -
Satire You Can Sip: Welcome to the Tumblers Collection
I have a theory about why the best political jokes land at a slow pace. A rant gets tuned out before the second sentence. But a wine tumbler sitting quietly on the table (lid on, holding its 12 ounces like it has all the time in the world) gets read, re-read, and then somebody across the room grins. That grin is the whole business model of the Tumblers collection, and it does its work before you even say a word.
