Get down with your Goose self

What the Texas is Austin doing in these pictures?

Has it finally happened, the long arm syndrome has gotten to him? Is he giving subconscious hints about being the Goose? Or, is he trying to do the Chicken dance and no one else will join in?


Ok - I'm going to just put it behind my back, look natural and into the camera. Damn I should have unbuttoned my jacket. No it doesn't look like I am trying to hide anything, I am just standing at ease.


No it doesn't look like I have anything behind my back. It's cool, It's cool. I look good, just looking causal, jacket unbuttoned, just hanging out, nothing behind my back. Nothing to see people, Nothing to see.

Top Ten Reasons Austin has one arm behind his back.

10. Shows off the tie better.

9. Thought the pictures would be give good poses to include in application for next season's Bravo's "Make Me a Supermodel."

8. He's holding his date who is so tiny she's practically invisible.

7. Mickey Rourke gave him a puppy and he's trying to keep it a secret until he gets home and tells Atti.

6. Flipping the bird like he did when he was kid and didn't want to get caught .

5. So magnetic has to keep people from putting their hands around his waist.

4. Southern Gothic said they would give him a free signed t-shirt if he did it.

3. Playing which "hand is it in" with Bret Easton Ellis - he falls for it every time!

2. Too tight trousers (aka super slim slacks) couldn't put his phone in his pants.

1. Must fight urge to throw the horns.

Overcoming Obstacles

While you're watching the Olympics and cheering on Olympians like Michael Phelps and Phil Dalhausser, you don't know true challenges out of the athletic venues they face. I want to talk to you about a serious challenge many face every single day and are suffering in silence. Long Arms Syndrome. My name is Austin Nichols, and I have Long Arms Syndrome (LAS).

It is a life long condition and there is no cure. Misunderstood by many they don't understand why we shed our shirts so much. But think about if everything you tried on was too short in the arms.

I was a normal kid, my arms might have been a little long but not too bad, but then overnight I grew and found myself with arms that were too long for anything. Self confidence is hard when you are 14 but try it when your arms stick 3 inches longer than your shirt sleeve.

Too short pants get called highwaters, but there is no name for our shame.

So what can you do? Besides a life time in short sleeve shirts?


Rolling the sleeves up

Rolling down French cuffed shirts



Accessories to draw attention away from too short sleeve




Sleeveless tee's








Interesting photo poses








Just trying to look casual on a date







In the end when your wingspan is more than approaching over 80 inches (that's almost 203.2 cm) you just give up and lose the shirt.



Of course special occasions you might be not be able to so have to go with something custom made.



So the next time you slip your arm in your sleeve when you get dressed, stop and take a moment and be thankful you do not suffer like LAS like others do.

Paid for by the Long Arm Syndrome Group.

OMG Olympic Moment
Tennis

When Irishman John Boland traveled to Athens for the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, he had no idea he would return home with the gold medal in tennis. But then, he had no idea he would compete either - he went as a spectator.

Times have changed dramatically for Olympic tennis since then. Today's Olympic tennis players include some of the highest-profile athletes in the world. Accustomed to five-star hotels and high-stakes prize money, at the Olympic Games they will bunk in the Olympic Village and compete for nothing but a gold medal.

Tennis was dropped from the Olympic program after 1924 amid turmoil over such issues as where to draw the line between amateurism and professionalism, and it didn't return as a medal sport until 1988. Today, Olympic competition includes men's and women's singles and men's and women's doubles.

OMG's take. How could we ever forget tennis, crisp whites to show of the athleticism of the player, and how sounds of exertion are perfectly acceptable in public.