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AP Photo | Word bubble by Dan

You know what to do here, folks: Put some words in vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s mouth, reflecting a claim to the most ridiculous athletic feat imaginable.

I’ll go first:

“And let me tell you about the time I whipped both Ali and Frazier . . . with one hand tied behind my back!”

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49 COMMENTS

  1. Debbie | September 7, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    I can leap tall buildings in a single bound and stop speeding bullets with one hand. Superman has nothing on me.

  2. hokie hater | September 7, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    Really Tom Brady? I have better hair and I’m a better QB.

  3. Kevin | September 7, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    The second time I swam from Miami to Havana Harbor as part of a multi-jurisdictional border patrol, an 18-foot shark had been shadowing us for about 10 miles. Finally the shark made it’s move, attacking one of the Navy Seals that was nearby. Without thinking, from pure muscle memory, I reverted to my training in Bruce Lee’s fighting techniques, delivering a single, fatal chop to the shark’s nose. I swam with that shark on my back all the way to Miami where we celebrated by having shark-fin soup!

  4. Dan Casey | September 7, 2012 at 12:54 pm

    “Of course, I was for the Obamacare grant after I opposed Obamacare. As you may have noticed, I’m expert political gymnast. I shoulda been in the Olympics!”

  5. Ron May | September 7, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!

  6. Pistol Pete | September 7, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    “The only thing that is bigger and faster than me is Joe Biden’s mouth!”

  7. Ron May | September 7, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    “It is I Don Quixote, the man of La Mancha!!” Tiling at windmills again. Oh! I didn’t mean to say that. It suggests that I support windpower.

  8. Other John | September 7, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    I can do more stretching than just with the truth…thanks to my training to become a Yoga master, which I completed after I hiked to Kathmandu from Wisconsin.

  9. Marked Man | September 7, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    I’m afraid that cokehead obama would dominate me on the basketball court.

  10. steve | September 7, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    Joey bet your mouth runs faster then me!

    Joey, you left your jock strap hanging in my new bathroom.

    Barry you ain’t got no game.

  11. dave | September 7, 2012 at 1:19 pm

    To the tune of “I Feel Pretty” from Westside Story.

    I’ve got muscles
    Pretty muscles
    In my abs and
    my arms and
    my thighs.
    I’m so muscled
    That I think I’ll
    Just take off and fly!

    All those muscles
    pretty muscles
    they’re so pretty
    they fill me
    with tears
    Just one problem
    that’s the void
    between my ears!

    I’ve got muscles
    pretty muscles
    And the gals
    they all love
    my blue eyes
    just don’t tell them
    all the words that I say
    are all lies!

  12. Frank | September 7, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    “yes, ladies and gentlemen, according to the main stream media,the best the speech given at the dem convention was by bill clinton! yes, THAT bill clinton! Yes, the same guy who waggled that same finger during his speech the other night as he did at the American people when he infamously said, “i did NOT have sex with that women, Monica ….”! Yes, THAT bill clinton, the one who mentally abused his lovely wife during their entire “marriage”. Yes, the same one who abused his young “intern”… yep”.

  13. dave | September 7, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    Did I ever tell you about my climb of Mt. Everest. Climbed the whole mountain during a blizard in just 8 hours a three minutes. And on the way back down I found two hikers half frozen and lost so I put them on my back and carried them both back down the mountain . For that they gave me the AYN RAND sucker of the year award for not leaving them on the mountain to fend for themselves.

  14. Dan Casey | September 7, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    “I hike the Appalachian Trail in 3 weeks. Take that, Mark Sanford!”

  15. gdad | September 7, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    Come on, I can take all of you bloggers in running, basketball, swimming, bowling, ping pong, billiards, baseball, volleyball, golf, archery, poker, team handball, lacrosse, soccer, mountain climbing, and Grand Prix.

  16. gdad | September 7, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    When I give a high five, it’s more like a high seven.

  17. Alfred | September 7, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    “Given my mountain climbing prowess, I personally train the Sherpas in their native Nepal.”

  18. scott | September 7, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    One time, I got in a fight with Chuck Norris, and I karate chopped him just like THIS… and all of a sudden he looked up at me, bowed, and said “Master, we have to take out this Enemy of the State or we shall be plunged into 1000 years of darkness!” It was then that I knew I was unstoppable.

  19. J.M.White | September 7, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    With one overhand strike, I became the Wisconsin karate champion.

  20. Maloof | September 7, 2012 at 2:34 pm

    I’ll make Dan Casey ride a tricycle.

  21. Cold n P | September 7, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    I’ve been doing the p90x program for years. Heck, they’ve called my program the 180turn. I’m so nimble and fit I can run change direction on any surface (or issue) just like that. I think they call it the 180 because I’m twice as fast as anybody ever tested…

    What’s that you say? What’s my plan for jobs? Comeon man, I’m just here to enjoy the day. Wait til I’m elected, then we’ll get to work on that wonky stuff.

  22. dobbs | September 7, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    “On Halloween, Chuck Norris dresses up as ME!”

  23. Another Bob | September 7, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    Dan Casey???…..who??

  24. Donut Miser | September 7, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    “See that Romney/Ryan sign back there? I built that…in like, 10 seconds. See this speech balloon on my right? I built that, too, in 1.57 seconds. I did it all with this here, my left hand. I’m awesome.”

  25. Ron May | September 7, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    “Mitt Romney believes strongly in the 5th Amendment.” “Think about it!!” :)

  26. steve | September 7, 2012 at 6:56 pm

    2008 Hope and Change
    2012 Doom and Dung

  27. Ernie | September 7, 2012 at 7:15 pm

    I just zipped past Usain Bolt after about 20 meters and never looked back. Now I admit, the concrete shoes I was wearing put a few blisters on my feet.

  28. Bill Perdue | September 7, 2012 at 8:48 pm

    My bromance Brother, Chuck Norris and I are going to stop Obama and prevent the 1000 years of darkness.

    (Well, if that doesn’t work, we are going to take our shirts off and make a martial arts move called “Saving America from a 1000 years of darkness”).

  29. joe | September 8, 2012 at 12:14 am

    At 10 years old I waded into
    the Rock River and swam to Davenport.
    Mom tried to get me to stop but I swam on
    ..the full lentgh of the Mississippi.
    I stopped in New Orleans long enough for a
    glass of milk, then carried on to Cancun.
    But nothing was as satisfying as teaching
    Bret Favre the right way to throw a football.

  30. pammala | September 8, 2012 at 5:25 am

    2208 hope and change
    2012 hope we change admins cause the one we got stinks

  31. Steve C | September 8, 2012 at 10:33 am

    “You think America was shocked when I ran a sub 3 hour marathon? Think they were shocked after I climbed 40 mountains? Wait ‘till you see the expressions on their faces after I’m elected VP and then slip the American people Paul Ryan’s version of the ol’ shocker!”

  32. Jeff Doto | September 8, 2012 at 10:44 am

    Damn, another 368,000 people have just had to completely drop out of the job search…Three Hundred Sixty Eight THOUSAND good americans have had to just quit looking for jobs to support thier families…This ECONOMY is DISMAL.

  33. Suzie | September 8, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    Damn, another 368,000 people have just had to completely drop out of the job search…Three Hundred Sixty Eight THOUSAND good americans have had to just quit looking for jobs to support thier families…This ECONOMY is DISMAL.

    Yep, Jeff Doto. And that’s the underhanded little trick 0bama used to crow yesterday that unemployment ‘dropped’ from 8.2 to 8.1%.

  34. Contrasuzie | September 8, 2012 at 1:00 pm

    “Intervals are for amateurs. Try running a marathon in less than 3 hours up the side of a mountain.”

  35. Contrasuzie | September 8, 2012 at 1:04 pm

    I’m reposting this one from the other thread:

    “And after I ran that marathon in less than 3 hours, I had so much energy left, I made mad, passionate love to my girlfr…er…wife, MORGAN FAIRCHILD!  Yeah…yeah…that’s the ticket!”

  36. Cold n P | September 8, 2012 at 1:36 pm

    Lyin’ Ryan-”368,000 folks dropped out of the economy….that reminds me of the time I bench pressed 370 lbs. Dude, I am the man…”

  37. pammala | September 8, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    “the Dems were against God before they were for Him”
    what A BUNCH OF LOSERS

  38. gdad | September 8, 2012 at 3:52 pm

    #37 I’m sure pammalalala can show us where the Dems said they were against God.

    Yawn. Crickets. Silence.

  39. Dan Casey | September 8, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    “#37 I’m sure pammalalala can show us where the Dems said they were against God.”

    Proof: they put him back in the platform.

  40. Debbie | September 8, 2012 at 4:49 pm

    Not to play blog nanny, but I thought you said caption entries only in the caption contests.

  41. Contrasuzie | September 8, 2012 at 10:01 pm

    “”pammala says:

    “the Dems were against God before they were for Him”

    Posted on September 8th, 2012

    Ummm…isn’t/wasn’t everybody who now believes in God?  Isn’t that the whole point?

    Romans 3:23
    New King James Version (NKJV)
    23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

  42. Contrasuzie | September 8, 2012 at 10:07 pm

    I’m gonna piggyback on Dan’s post.

    “Dan Casey says:

    “Of course, I was for the Obamacare grant after I opposed Obamacare. As you may have noticed, I’m expert political gymnast. I shoulda been in the Olympics!”

    “I’m the real Flying Squirrel!”

  43. Contrasuzie | September 8, 2012 at 10:11 pm

    “Sometimes you don’t go left or right. Sometimes you walk that tightrope straight down the middle. Like that time I walked a real tightrope across the Grand Canyon.”

  44. gdad | September 8, 2012 at 10:27 pm

    #40 My apologies. I didn’t notice I was on the contest thread. Dan is welcome to remove my former comment.

  45. John Wilburn | September 8, 2012 at 11:40 pm

    RYAN: The secret to running the marathon so quickly was getting lighter by having my stomach pumped.

    Dave Gresham, that was for you!

  46. Dave Gresham | September 9, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    Thanks John. Yep, I think Dan owes me a book for that one if he ever catches up on judging these things again. Meanwhile, I’ve got a couple for this contest…

  47. Dave Gresham | September 9, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    Ryan: “This move is from my Olympic ice dancing routine. I’m teaching it to Mitt and you’ll notice that I lead.”

  48. Dave Gresham | September 9, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    Ryan: “I was state champion on the uneven bars.”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZYPcdj_wn4

  49. Steve C | September 9, 2012 at 10:45 pm

    Sub three hour marathon? Check.
    Climbing 40 peaks? No prob.

    P90X? It barely makes me sweat.

    100 fingertip pushups? Every morning before I even have my Wheaties.

    500 crunches? Please…see these washboards abs?

    1/8 mile intervals with 15 second rest periods? (Motioning with hand rapidly moving up and own) Dude, no way! I draw the line at that craziness! What, do you think I’m superman or something?

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