{"id":49121,"date":"2011-07-03T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/49121\/novak-son-congratulations-beating-butt-sniffer\/"},"modified":"2011-07-03T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T19:14:48","slug":"novak-son-congratulations-beating-butt-sniffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/49121\/novak-son-congratulations-beating-butt-sniffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak, My Son, Congratulations on Beating a Butt Sniffer!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Congratulations to NOVAK DJOKOVIC<\/strong><\/font> for winning the Wimbledon gentleman\u2019s championship today!\u00a0 I have been a big fan of Djokovic since I happened to watch him beat Federer, at the time, the best player in the world, back in 2007 in Montreal.\u00a0 I was also experimenting with turning recorded TV events into YouTube videos, and this Jokovic\u2026err..Djokovic character\u2019s enthusiasm was perfect for a neat montage.\u00a0 Click here<\/a> to see my first tribute to Djokovic it in a new window.\u00a0\u00a0 Today, Djokovic beat Rafa Nadal, himself the best tennis player in the world.\u00a0 Until today.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Another reason I\u2019m a Djokovic fan is that he is comedian on the court.\u00a0 Search YouTube for \u201cDjokovic\u201d and \u201cfunny\u201d and you\u2019ll see more of his antics like the one below. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nNovak plays tennis a lot better than he sings.<\/font><\/p>\n

Tennis itself is funny.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mean funny as in \u201cha ha<\/em>\u201d but as in \u201cpeculiar<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 There are so many weird things about this sport which should be pretty straightforward.\u00a0 Two people hitting a ball back and forth with rackets.\u00a0 Simple, eh?\u00a0 No, the sport can\u2019t even agree what it\u2019s supposed to be played ON.. Grass, clay, concrete\u2026 It depends on where you are.<\/font><\/p>\n

No sport has a stranger scoring system.\u00a0 You start each game in \u201cLove\u201d\u2026 Love is generally a good place to be, right?\u00a0 Not in tennis! If you\u2019re still in Love at the end of the game it means that you\u2019ve lost and have not scored.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of like many romantic relationships: two people start off in Love, things go back from one side to the other and back again, until someone makes an unforced error and earns a point. <\/font><\/p>\n

If things go badly, you may be facing a \u201cbreak point\u201d and risk being \u201cbroken\u201d.\u00a0 If things go as planned, you earn a \u201chold.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

Unlike other sports featuring hitting things over a net like ping pong and volleyball, in tennis, you don\u2019t earn a point.\u00a0 Do something good once and you get 15 points.\u00a0 Why 15? <\/font>\"\"<\/font> Win another and you get another 15 points.\u00a0 Then, I guess they aren\u2019t worth as much because the 3rd time you win a point, you only get 10 points for a total of 40.\u00a0 If your opponent also has 40 points at that point, you stop keeping track of the score.\u00a0 You\u2019re now at something called \u201cdeuce\u201d.\u00a0 Deuce?\u00a0 What the deuce?<\/font><\/p>\n

Tennis is the only sport I can think of where coaching is against the rules during a match.\u00a0 Now, this may not be such a bad idea, but only in tennis is the player\u2019s coach required to sit in the stands and cannot make even as much as a hand signal to the player whose paying him or her for his or her advice.\u00a0 What the deuce?<\/font><\/p>\n

At it\u2019s highest level, no sport has a higher ratio of officials-to-players.\u00a0 A chair judge, someone watching the net, numerous ballboys, and three linesmen whose sole job is to bend over, put their hands on their knees and watch a line.\u00a0 They don\u2019t even get to watch the game played out; they have to stare at a line. How does one get to be a professional linesman?\u00a0\u00a0 What goes on your resume?\u00a0 What do you say at the interview?<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had lots of experience staring at lines.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u201cOh, and I\u2019m really good at bending over for long periods of time!\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"\"Tennis is the only sport where tens of thousands of people can be watching, and the players are usually louder than the crowd.\u00a0 Grunts and shouts are part of the game; it helps the players gain more power in their shots, but sometimes, it can be terminally annoying.\u00a0 I could not watch the women\u2019s final yesterday because of Maria Sharapova.\u00a0 Well, I suppose it is more accurate to say I could not listen to the women\u2019s final.\u00a0 Her \u201cHHYYYAAGGHH!\u201d <\/strong><\/font>with each shot is the ugliest sound I have ever heard come out of a beautiful woman.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Maria is not the only tennis player to do somewhat disgusting things on the court.\u00a0 I only noticed this today, but Rafael Nadal has a real problem with butt-picking and butt-sniffing.\u00a0 The man is constantly picking at his butt!!<\/strong> \"\"I suppose playing with a wedgie should reserved for golf, but nobody else does this!\u00a0 I something wrong with his underwear?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t he have major endorsement deals with sports clothing manufacturers?\u00a0 Can\u2019t he get some underwear that stays out of his crack?\u00a0 What\u2019s worse is that he is always putting his fingers up to his nose after he picks his butt.\u00a0 I saw it like 5 times in the course of a 4 set match today.\u00a0 What is happening here?\u00a0 Is it just a bad habit, or does the stench of his own butt crack give Raffy a lift in his game?\u00a0 Is he like Popeye and he has his own special ass-spinach? I did a little research on YouTube and found a couple commentaries on this butt-sniffing phenomenon.\u00a0 These sock puppets comments were hilarious!\u00a0 “Did he just do the pick and sniff?!?!<\/em>”
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So, once again, congratulations to Novak Djokovic, the newest #1 ranked men\u2019s tennis player in the world.<\/font><\/p>\n

By the way, the Serbian last name suffix -vic means \u201cson of\u201d\u2026 \u201cDjoko\u201d is the old way to spell \u201cJoko\u201d, so way to go \u201cson!\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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