The Ballard Bunch at the Catlanta Catlympics
The Medal Ceremonies
The medals for the winners of all the wonderful events in the Catlanta
Catlympics were awarded at the impurrressive closing ceremonies. Of the
two events entered by the Ballard Bunch, Smurgling
medals were awarded first, and then the Synchronized
Sleeping medals.
Smurgling Medals
Boris (KCOG): Now the moment we've been
waiting for . . . the Smurgling medals!!! Many thanks to FredGMeyercat,
Jon-Tom, Patches, Kitsen, Clarence, Chester, Shadrach, Henry, Talisker
Pippin, Tabitha, Oscar and Mellon for their participation.
And the medalists are:
Taking the Trout:
KITSEN--for
the innovative technique of marking the smurglee with a "K."
Taking the Toona:
TALISKER�PIPPIN: the commentator sez it all: (audio replay): "Now
she mooves to thuh head of thuh bed, walking from her meowmie'z feet to
her tummy to her shoulders, eech foot leeving deep depresshuns in her meowmie'z
body. �Now she sticks her noze in her meowmie's ear, whuffles and--yes!
she purrrrrz! It's those graceful little details that makes her presentation
so appealing!"
And winning the Sammun:
A repeat preformance by JON-TOM. (audio replay) "And he
finishes it with a perfect dismount--an endearing look up at meowmy while
sinking razor sharp claws into her flesh and then a four point landing
on the floor when she screeches and stands up...and he sticks that landing.
Not one bobble from this cathlete! What an incredible routine! Flawlessly
executed and the judges will have to give him high marks for the liquidity
of his routine as well as its difficulty."
Concatulashuns to all the participants!! If the medalists
will take the podium please and be available for interviews.
Sportscaster Interviewer: Here we are
with Talisker Pippin, Toona Medal winner inna Smurgling event. Tell
us, Mz. Pippin, how does it feel to be onna medal platform?
Tally: It's wunderful to be here and to
win the Toona Medal. �I've been working and training fur a long time,
and it's so exciting to have reached this moment. I haf to thank my meowmie
who has cooperated wif my training alla way and contributed herownself
to my success. �I feel as if I�haf represented alla members of
the
Fluffy Cat Club and the Tabby Cat Club too, and I'm furrry furry proud
to be here.
S.I.: Are
you disappointed to have won thuh Toona insted of thuh Sammun?
Tally: Well, thuh most important thing
was to do my furrry best, and even though I left out an element in my routine...
S.I.: Whut wuz that??
Tally: That wuz thuh cat-hoomin frensh
kiss--usually I do that furrry well, but I just dropped it in thuh excitement
of the competishun. Ennyway, I did the best I could do and I'm proud of
the results. Jon-Tom is a great competitor, and he realy deserved the sammun.
I'm furry proud to have been able to participate inna Catlympics and to
get enny medal at all is so furry speshul. �Besides, I�reeely
reeeeeely like toona!
S.I.: We understand you have a speshul
mentor who has counselled you on various aspects of your performance.
Tally: That would be Spike,
V.C. (Venerable Cat), and I�haf to say that his faith in me has
helped me stick to my program so that I�was able to compete at this
level. �And I�should point out that our mentor-mentee relashunship
is a wonderful example of international US-Catnadian cooperashun, which
is what the Catlympics are all about.
S.I.: That's right, Talisker Pippin! �Internashunal
feline friendship is one of the most important aspects of these games.
�Fangu fur taking time at this inspiring moment to talk wif us. There
she goes folks--Talisker Pippin, Toona Medal Smurgler!
(Spike, V.C., was quick to concatulate
his mentee: "Sobsnifflesob, Ize just so proud Ize could just bust
all my buttonz iffn Ize had any. �Ize wantz ta extend my concatulations
ta my mentee on her amazin purrformance that brought her the toona. �Az
I've alwayz sed "a fish is a fish is a fish" n the color of it
iz immaterial. Ize so deeply touched by the testimonial ta me that Ize
don't know what ta say, so Ize wont say nothin. (UB:�Wonder iffn Ize
getz a slice of the toona?) Anyone got a hanky? Sniffsniff " --Spike,
M.O.T.T.M.I.S.T. (Mentor of the Toona Medalist in Smurglin, Tally!)
And of course Tally shared the toona with Spike, who among his many
talents was a purrveyer of fine seafod and a great connoisseur of fishes.
Then the medals for Synchronized Sleeping were awarded.
Synchronized Sleeping
Medals
Boris (KCOG): Well kitties...the results
are in from the Synchronized Sleeping event. This event has been plagued
by chaos. �Due to the faulty transportation system many entrants were
unable to turn in routines. �There were so many stunning entries that
the judges decided to award two medals at several levels (UB: this is gonna
bankrupt the KCOG!).
For the Trout:
BOBBY
and DYLAN for their skill in switching from total chaos to beautiful
harmony at the drop of a pin and for maintaining synchronicity despite
being in different rooms.
Taking the Toonas:
FUFF and BOOTSIE who managed to work the Parallel Rollover, the Salt Cow,
the Peekaboo Maneuver and the CouchPotatoe position into their routine.
AND
SPOT and EMBER for a performance that tugged on the heartstrings
as the partners maintained contact throughout.
And the Sammuns are awarded to
CEILIDH�FLURRYDANCE�and SKYE�SILVERSONG. �The commentators
said it all:�"these more superficial points of comparison are
easily set aside when you begin to observe and understand the deep emotional,
some would say spiritual, synchronicity between these two cats.
�Some say they wouldn't even have to train for this event--they live
it every day of their lives. �That is so apparent in the wonderful
performance we have just seen--Ceilidh and Skye are stunning represetnatives
of the best kind of friendship and unity. �We've been privileged to
watch them demonstrate that today."
AND
CODY and CALPURRNIA. "Kitties and gentlecats, dis
reportur jus' kan't believe dis! Cody an' Callipurrz liddle hartz ar eeven
beetin' as WUN!!! Wut a momentuss o-kayshun!! De furst tyme in Catlympicz
hisstory dat purrfekt TOTAL�SYNCRISITY�has been achiefed!!!"
Concatulashuns to all the participants! If the medalists will take
the podium please and be available for interviews.
Ceilidh Flurrydance took the lead in the
post-ceremony interviews: Mreowowow, efurrykitty. My bestest frend Skye
is still a furry shy kitty, so I'll be spokescat fur our team. �I
want to say fangu to efurrykitty who supported us in our quest fur the
sammun. We are furry honored to stand onna medal platform wif Calpurrnia
de Calico and Alexander Blitzen Cody. �We thot they were sure winners
when they perfeckted the two-hartz-beet-az-wun skill, so we're speshully
proud to win thuh sammun wif them.
I also want to thank my speshul valuntine winkwink, Rocko
(who haz been mooving wif his mom and bruther Oliver to a noo house), cuz
even though Skye iz my bestest frend, Rocko is the bestest winkwink
and has showed me furrry speshul ways of being sincr...uh, synchro...uh...together.
And that has only increased my commitment to fulfilling the goals Skye
and I have set as bestest frends and teemmates. And I would also like to
say speshul hello to my mentee, Rusty the Tiger, who I know will someday
achieve whatever goals he sets fur himself just like Skye and I�have
acheeved this sammun medal.
Alla other synchronized sleepers were furrry good, too, and we would
like to pay tribute speshully to Kitsen
and the Dreem Tree-o who were prevented from competing in these Catlympics
by circumstances beyond their control -- we are furry proud to be following
in their pawsteps.
This has been furry exciting and wunderful Catlympics, and we've all
had a gudgud time and met lotza other kittiez from all over thuh werld,
and that's the best part of all. (Well, that and eatin all that gud sammun!
And Tally won the Toona medal, so we don't even haf to share!) Mreowowow,
from Ceilidh and Skye, Sammun Medal Synchronized Sleepers.
And that's the story of the Ballard Bunch, Ceilidh, Skye, & Talisker
Pippin, at the Catlympics in Catlanta. There were lots more kitties competing
and they all have their stories, too. Efurrykitty had a real good time.
