You sure are getting a lot of mileage out of these shoes. Ba-dum-ching!

Maybe I missed this earlier, but are you training for something LB?

Nah. Just attempting to slow the inevitable deterioration of old age. My parents are both jocks, both pushing seventy, and could both kill a waterbuffalo with their bare hands. I missed the window growing up for learning to enjoy playing ball games, but I'd like to be as durable as my folks when I get that old, and that means running/lifting/rowing now.

What a vicious pair. Waterbuffalos are harmless and affectionate. How could anyone do such a thing? Boo to Mommy and Daddy Lizard.

They have that capacity, but restrain themselves. Waterbuffaloes roaming the streets of NY are safe as houses, assuming the traffic leaves them be.

What do your parents do to stay in shape?

Mom plays a shitload of tennis, (anyone over 60 in NY? The Parks Department has free lessons/coaching for senior players -- you can play an awful lot, all year, without spending anything on it.) Dad used to, and when he was younger played baseball and hockey -- last year he had a bout of sciatica that's kept him from running, so he's been reduced to lifting and using an elliptical.

Mr. Lizard, that water buffalo with the big brown eyes writhing your feet loves people. He only wanted to lick your face affectionately. All he really cared for was making people happy.

I find it hard to believe that just playing tennis could prepare a person for killing waterbuffalo. You're either leaving out part of her regime, or you're exaggerating.

You hit a tennis ball at 120 miles per hour and you aim it at that waterbuffalo's head and you see how long it stands up.

Maybe they know how to make their own racket strings.

10: That's not true, water buffalo have a killer return. Your best shot is to play them on grass to take some of the heat off their volley, then play to their weak backhand.

I think for you to "fiddle while Rome burns" in the sense in which the phrase is usually intended, (and if "Rome burns" is intended to analogize the collapse of the USian republic,) you would need to have more political power. It was dictator Nero who proverbially fiddled, not Josephus Schmoeus.

Excellent commentary from Olbermann.

12: On clay, they're unstoppable.