New Improbolympic Events

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It can add a new dimension to the games ... or take one away.

I don't think I could've done better with those hurdles, even with infinite time.

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Olympic Venn-ue

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Games, Sets, Matches

Not that we play with matches...

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(x, why?) Mini: Talkin' Baseball

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That's according to the public address. Honest.

A long way to go for a pun, you say? I don't think 360 feet is that long, but 11220 feet sounds longer when you write it in base four. And base four would be one trip around the bases, right?

And I didn't even mention the diamond!

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Move the Chains!

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(C)Copyright 2018, C. Burke.

Move 10 chains and we'll get there 'fore long.




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Hole Numbers

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(C)Copyright 2017, C. Burke.

I guess the driving range would be 0, and 19 is, of course, the bar.




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VIP Seating

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(C)Copyright 2016, C. Burke.

You may not be as important as Eu Cker-rently believe.

Better to be moved up to a better place than be asked to give up your seat to someone else.

Unless you can just play that guy on TV and make lots of money at it.

Edit: Bonus points if you can remember what strips these characters previously appeared in. There are no new characters in this comic, but only two of them could be called "regular characters".




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(x, why?) Mini: Opening Day!

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(C)Copyright 2016, C. Burke.

FYI: that's not a weird baseball score. That's a double play. Or three sides of a triangle.

Baseball has always been a classy game, being played on a Diamond, and not on a Square.




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Super Bowl 50

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(C)Copyright 2016, C. Burke.

Let the discussion of Ordinal v. Cardinal begin now.

Seriously, I get comments from people who get it backward and/or think I got it backward.

As for our buddy, L in the comic, he is refering to last year's comic.




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XLIX

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(C)Copyright 2015, C. Burke.

For those not into football, enjoy pronouncing "x-lix" like a certain well-known brand name.

And, for what it's worth, I'd give it "even money" that next year will just be 50, and not L.

(x, why?) Mini: Break the Plane

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(C)Copyright 2014, C. Burke.

Why are planes always parallelograms? Doesn't that get confusing?

I've wanted to do this every Sunday since the season started, and then I forget until the last minute ... so I say, "That's okay. There's Monday Night, too!", but that hasn't worked out recently, either. So here it is.

(Still on Hiatus:) Burke's Laws

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I'm still "on hiatus", but I'm also need a little bit of a release.
The comic below features a couple of "laws" I first spouted at some point back in the mid-80s, between college and career. The pictures are new. Enjoy.

(C)Copyright 2013, C. Burke.

Come to think of it, in some cases, playing games and looking at naughty pictures have become the same thing, too.

I've voiced a few "Laws" like these over the years, but these are two that always stuck with me, and both, so far, are still true.

Whether or not they are actually "laws" or "theories" or "postulates" or anything else, I don't know. "Burke's Law" always sounded cool to me, and that was before I even knew it was the title of an old TV show.

Second Half

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(C)Copyright 2013, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

Another "ripped from the classroom" story.

There were more words than would fit into balloons but would still fit into one minute, cautionary tales for those who were succeeding, what could happen if they didn't touch the football for 90 minutes or touch their notebooks for 90 days and then suddenly realizing that a sure thing was slipping away from them.

The running commentary was real, though edited for space, as was the closing thought.

Super Bowl XLVII

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(C)Copyright 2013, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

Oddly enough, 2 and 8, while bad, are not the worst numbers to have ever had in Super Bowl history. But since there are only 55 combinations (assuming you don't care which team has which number, which you probably do), and there have only been 46 games with 184 quarters, the empirical data doesn't really tell us a lot, nor will it help us to predict the likelihood of a safety occurring. (And multiples are Right Out!) Meaningless information. Except, maybe, that 7-0, 0-0, and 3-0 are really good to have. No surprises there.

i.e., "past performance is indicator of future results"

It's All About the Timing

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(C)Copyright 2010, C. Burke. All rights reserved.


Other than "GOL!", I have no clue what they're saying on the Spanish station. But they have much more enthusiasm than the guys on ESPN or ABC. And they seem more intelligent, too.

And if things were really well-timed, this would've been posted a couple of days ago.
Happy Fourth of July!

Sending Out an S.O.S to the World Cup

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(C)Copyright 2010, C. Burke. All rights reserved.


I hope that someone gets my ... I hope that someone gets my ... I hope that someone gets my ...

Obligatory Educational Content: A soccer ball looks like a bucky ball, or vice versa.

300

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First, they'll strike on the left. Then on the right. Then on the left again...


In case it isn't obvious from the title, this is the 300th (x, why?) comic.

Super Bowl Party 2009

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For most people, the Super Bowl isn't about the teams. It's about the numbers.
Or the commercials.

I went through several ideas to find the right joke. I still haven't found it.
I should've went with a "Groundhog's Day" joke instead.