Swiffering for gold

In Conan O'Brian's final show monologue he advised everyone "not to be too cynical".. He must have never seen women's curling at the Winter Olympics. Watching the Olympics during a weekday is a new time-killing low point. During prime time you get to see skiing, skating and the psychotic luge contests. (gee, a guy died going 90 mph on a rocket-fast ice track bordered by huge steel girders?? Not surprising)..

So curling is immensely uninteresting and seems to be some kind of Nordic shuffleboarding. You slide some idiotic "stone" on what looks like an icy surface onto what looks like a bulls eye. I'm sure there is some explanation of who wins and why, but who cares? Two of the players, who are holding what looks like Swiffer brooms, brush the area in front of the moving stone helping it along before it gets to the bulls eye.

Listening to the announcers I had a feeling they were former players and lending very specific insight into the many strategies.. STRATEGIES?? I guess they're the same strategies you'd see in say Iron Chef on the food channel or a darts game in an Irish pub. Those two events never made it to the Olympics. The only similarity with these two and curling is you don't have to be in shape or have any athletic prowess - except for Swiffering like a lunatic..

I think I'll check the Olympics TV schedule to see when those skiers with the rifles start racing. It always reminds me of one of those James Bond movies where 007 parachutes off the end of a giant cliff.

I wonder if when the curling team goes up for their medals they bring their favorite Swiffers??