Pole vaulted in high school. I sucked. Another guy, who sucked a bit more had his pole break in 4 pieces. His momentum kept him going into the pit so no big deal. It's not very uncommon, or at least it didn't used to be. Poles definitely have a shelf life and I'm pretty sure the policy at our school was to use poles until they broke.

He's not taking any work from Attenborough, that's for sure.

Is there any reason they couldn't scale one up, wrap it in pink fur, add a mannequin's head and a saddle to one? Japan would officially fund that.

^ Agreed. On the one hand, the candidates need a big-picture individualism, stoicism, and acceptance that they're leaving all the people they love behind -- they need the ability to "disconnect" from that human companionship-- yet they also have to somehow get along with 3 strangers. To say nothing of the ability to not totally flip out when a chestburster pops out of one of them during dinner.

Now I'm wondering if that guy really licks dog tongues.

Twerkers getting electrocuted would be illegal, right? Nevermind.

~~~~~YOU~~~~~ARE~~~~~~~~~NOT~~~~~~ALONE~~~~~~~~~~~

I love this guy.

Argh I can't wait until Spring!

*kill

Lovely.

Maybe my emotions are easily manipulated but I thought this was beautiful, and I typically don't even like dance.

And the age difference? The fact that he could be her father? Eureka. Watch it again as a father-daughter relationship, one where the father tries but fails to connect to his wild-child daughter while she's young, one where the daughter realizes too late the mistake of her younger ways when she loses him to death at the end.

Mark, Mark, Mark... you deserve a quote from Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi.

They've got Happy Feet.

Yay, it works again.