Brickbat: A Good Walk Wasted

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Just three months after the Rio Olympics ended, the $19 million golf course built for the games is rarely used, and the company responsible for its upkeep has not been paid by the government for two months. Few Brazilians golf, but organizers of the games said building the course could help make the game more popular there.

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[straffinrun]

Fuck You, Brazilian Cut.

[Adans smith]

Hey ,There's always bikini golf tournaments.

[Rat voted NOTA]

+1 happy place

[straffinrun]

I love a good landing strip.

[Groovus Maximus]

Waxing nostalgic, are we, straffin-san?

[straffinrun]

Yep, after marriage I've become a Palmer fan.

[gaoxiaen]

He picked me up hitchhiking once, but I didn't know who he was until I later looked at a copy of Sports Illustrated. He constantly praised Arnold Palmer and said that "Arnold Palmer is "his kind of golfer", so I memorized his face. We were much happier with next ride, who had Thai sticks.

[Rat voted NOTA]

Rio needs to ramp up the subsidies. What else does it have to lure tourists?

[Groovus Maximus]

Hopefully not crap like this. I, naturally, blame Ronal'd Bejlij for this Brick Joke travesty...

[Fist of Etiquette]

Well, isn't this just par for the course.

[Adans smith]

That was teed up for you.

[Groovus Maximus]

Such a caddy comment, Adans. Jealous of Fist of Handicapped much?

[Adans smith]

Let's not turn this into a wedge issue.

[Groovus Maximus]

It's a lofty goal, but I think we can sink this; we just need to address all the irons in the fire first.

[gaoxiaen]

Fore. Skin.

[Fist of Etiquette]

That's fair. Way to be rough on me, though.

[Groovus Maximus]

No more than Denial, The Angry Prostate pitching and chipping away at your ever worsening water hazard, Fist of Entrapment....

[geo1113]

May have been rough, but don't let it drive you crazy.

[Radioactive]

don't be so putt out about it IAC.

[Austrian Anarchy]

Looks like Trump's chat with the president of Taiwan was no accident. Good for Trump.

[Austrian Anarchy]

Have to read a ways down this article, or check his tweets.

"Did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into their country (the U.S. doesn't tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don't think so!" Trump said on Twitter.

[gaoxiaen]

Trudat.

[WTF]

Few Brazilians golf, but organizers of the games said building the course could help make the game more popular there.

If you build it, they won't come.

[Radioactive]

obviously it's a trap...

[geo1113]

Or maybe they need to do a better job of pitching it.

[Rat voted NOTA]

More people will come if they have punch and pie.

[gaoxiaen]

Maybe they prefer food and a roof.

[Rich]

organizers of the games said building the course could help make the game more popular there

And critics of the organizers of the games said building the course could help make the game less popular there.

[ColoradoKook]

This is why we need the Olympics in the United States. I want to see a nationwide commitment to team handball arenas and jai alai frontons