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dorispulaski

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Shallow Hal was a crap movie, but Rene Kirby, the spina bifida guy in it who won on rings in gymnastics in high school and skis and dances on his hands and basically has no usable legs due to spina bifida is awesome.

Here is a youtube interview with Rene.
https://youtu.be/XoSBQ96DZY8
 

CaroLiza_fan

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Just clicked the link, and immediately closed it again because I remembered how sore I felt at just watching them when that episode was broadcast.

No doubt about it, they are brilliant at what they do, and they deserved to go through to the next round. But, it is not my sort of thing.

But the worst of it is - they were subsequently disqualified and we never saw them again! :mad: :disapp:

The same happened to these two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBTrtNbiVjs

You can just imagine them doing that on the ice, can't you...? ;) :biggrin:

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CaroLiza_fan

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Not a video but a pretty interesting article... I was totally into dinosaurs at that age, too!

A Psychological Explanation for Kids' love of Dinosaurs

For me, it started a bit later, after I had started school. But it lasted a lot longer than the children the article is talking about - right up into High School. But then schoolwork really took over.

The only aspect of the past we were being taught about at school was the human era. History was my favourite subject at school. And it was through this and my interest in palaeontolgy that I got interested in archaeology, and decided that was the direction that I wanted to take.

Which brings us onto another interesting article, which discusses archaeology and another of my loves:

http://irisharchaeology.ie/2016/09/bone-ice-skates-from-viking-age-dublin/

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