Things We Learned on Twitter Tonight_ Obama Celebrates Team USA Golds

Lots of tweets tonight regarding the 2012 London Olympics; let's jump in the pool:

1) @CaseyMatthews50: "Congrats to Oregon Alum Galen Rupp for taking silver today in the 10k!"

2) @BarackObama: "President Obama celebrating the Olympic and Paraolympic athletes of Team USA in his weekly address."

3) @UCLAAthletics: "All-time UCLA medal count now up to 242 after Mark Hunter's silver in rowing," (the middle image is of the UCLA mascot).

4) @forrestfire: "Quit Russian around and Czech out the  Olympics. I'm covered in Greece from the Turkey I ate earlier, but I'm still Hungary. Poland."

5) @destineehooker: "Sweet dreams everyone. USA x Turkey tomorrow." (The top image is of American women's indoor volleyball player Destine Hooker. Turkey, ranked eighth in the world in the sport, plays the USA, ranked first, tomorrow in a highly anticipated game.)

6) @StayAdventurous: "In battle of beautiful women Czech Republic beat Brasil today." (Indeed, Czech women's beach volleyball players Marketa Slukova and Kristyna Kolocova upset the Brazilian duo of Maria Antonelli and Talita Antunes. The image below is actually of a beach volleyball game in Turkey. The tweeter splled Brazil as Brasil. There is a photo of the Czech duo posing topless_with hands covering bare breasts on the net_but, we don't want to lose readers in Dubai!).

http://www.usavolleyball.com

http://www.tvf.org.tr

http://www.uclabruins.com

http://www.goducks.com

http://kolocova_slukova.cz

UPDATE: Fortunately, we did not mention which country Mark Hunter (rowing) represented. A time of the tweet from UCLA, we presumed he rowed for America, but actually he rowed for Great Britain. Zac Purchase was his teammate in the two-man rowing competition on Saturday.

Happy New Year's from Huckleberry Hound

We were hoping to post a list of New Year's Resolutions, but this has proven to be a very busy New Year's Day here in Ann Arbor, Mich.,* where for some mysterious reason everyone seems to be rooting for the Oregon University Ducks in the Rose Bowl today. I got a tweet from Sam Adams, the mayor of Portland, Ore., who said he is rooting for the Ducks too.

So, we just only have time to post this silly message from Huckleberry Hound. My apologies to Jabber Jaw fans. We will remember you next year. I promise. Then again, I promised my cat Gizmo that he could go outside today.

*-I'm not really in Ann Arbor. In fact, I've never been there in my life. Though my late father Mehmet Gokbudak graduated from the University of Michigan in 1949, some 21 years before I was born. Michigan's rival Ohio State is the team playing Oregon in the Rose Bowl. I just thought I'd say that before some wiseass pointed it out to me.