We at "Would We Lie?" do not cover sports. That arena already has too many liars.
But a headline caught our eye and made us wonder.
The headline: Phelps takes on Thorpe in 200-meter freestyle tonight
It's an Olympic event, two well-known swimmers facing each other in a crucial swimming event. If one wins, we'll have world peace. If the other wins, we'll all have to move to Australia.
But our wandering mind took us a bit farther afield. We wondered: Who would win in a swimming match between Jim Phelps, leader of the "Mission: Impossible" squad, and Jim Thorpe, winner of numerous athletic awards who was named greatest athlete of part of a century (we think the last one) who went on to have a marvelous career as a drinker. And he was an Okie.
In your answer, please explain your reasoning. For instance: "Jim Phelps, who would choose to accept this mission, would sabotage Thorpe's swimming suit to fall down just as the starting gun went off."
Or: "Jim Thorpe would cream Phelps because he was from Oklahoma and Phelps was from Hollywood, and we all know that those Hollywood types take drugs and mess around with disease-riddled floosies, which makes them weak, weak, weak!"
See, it's kind of like Freddie vs. Jason, or Alien vs. Predator. Yes, all three premises are really, really stupid.
Please keep your answers within the bounds of good taste.
This quiz is brought to you by ouzo, the official drink of the Olympics.

Posted at August 16, 2004 01:00 PM