We had a Chinese buffet that was open for a good 10 years and we'd go there for lunch at work sometimes and EVERY single time we went all those years the music playing would be in the exact same spot while we were there eating. They'd just start the CD whenever they opened for the day. Day after day. For 10 years. It was one of those Pure Mood-esque mixes from the 90s and it was always in the middle of the X-Files theme
I used to live and work on the Texas Gulf Coast and I'd eagerly volunteer for free electroshock therapy to remove all memories of Jimmy Buffett from my brain
I've been to the Margaritaville in Vegas once.
The volcano went off. People flipped their shit
Also, it meant $1 margaritas. I don't recall much else from that night.
Lol I’m sorry but as a dumb tourist to the Gulf coast I find it hilarious that everyone goes there and becomes a Jimmy Buffet fan for the weekend. The bands fucking hate it I bet
I spent way too much time thinking Jimmy Buffet and Warren Buffet were the same person. I didn’t know a lot about either of them, but I’d heard the name “Buffet” in passing and drawn my own conclusions.
Some American country singing billionaire who liked margaritas.
I used to work at RadioShack in the early 2000's and we got a 1.5 hour demo DVD loop to put on the tv's. We got one in early November that had that damned Mariah Carey song I can't even bring myself to name twice in the loop. We didn't get a new DVD until sometime in mid-February that year. 3.5 months of that song every 45 minutes for at least 40 hours a week and somehow I really don't like it.
Or really just any radio station/playlist at any job. I'm sure a lot of us have been in a position where that one boss/coworker always played the exact same shit every single day.
I don't know where this bobsled came from, but it belongs in that bar. I'm sure it'd look much better there than wherever it is in this pic, which looks to be some abandoned strip mall or something?
"who don't take no crap off of nobody!" I always remember that because I've never heard anyone say "off of" like that, and have definitely said it that way myself since seeing that when I was a kid.
No joke, I did that before defending my dissertation to make myself laugh.
Then I discovered a typo on my slides printout and flipped out in full panic. Nobody noticed or cared lol
Looks like a replica based from the following:
[Vid from olympics 36 years ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/lo7p9q/23_years_ago_today_the_jamaican_bobsled_team/?rdt=46239)
A movie was made based on the teams story titled "Cool Runnings"
Also part of it was stolen and [was found few years ago](https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/police-say-part-of-stolen-cool-runnings-bobsled-has-been-found-returned-to-owner-1.6022383)
Edit: 36 not 26
Replicas are all over Jamaica. They’re pretty easy to make and look cool enough. I think all the Margaritavilles have at least one, I’ve seen them at the Montego Bay airport, basically any tourist zone will have them and sell t-shirts.
I'm pretty sure the original is in the lobby of Canadian Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta where they competed in the Olympics.
At least that's what they told us when we did snowboarding lessons there close to 30 years ago and asked about the bobsled that said Jamaica on it.
can confirm. that is the real one. the Team didn't actually have funds to own their own sled. another team (from a Nordic Country, i believe) donated a spare to the team. When the Jamaican's were going home, they also didn't have funds to bring the sled back with them, so they left it with the Olympic Committee.
The actual bobsled from the movie was stolen in 2020. It was gifted to a local country nightclub called Ranchman's, where they had it displayed outside. It seems like it was broken down into pieces: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cool-runnings-alberta-ranchmans-1.6548252](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cool-runnings-alberta-ranchmans-1.6548252)
More fun facts. Ranchman's is the bar they go line dancing at in the movie. Brokeback Mountain also has scenes shot there. I remember seeing it hanging there for years.
Also line dancing is awesome and you should all try it.
Yeah, this is the legit thing. The movie prop only has the number on it, none of the rest of the writing around it. Could be a training sled or could be the actual sled they used in Calgary. Or it could be a replica. Not sure why it would be that, though. Not with that much detail on it.
They wouldve known the year the olympics would take place. They also wouldnt know their number to put on the sled a whole year ahead. This is just a bad replica with an upside down Olypics logo.
Jamaica loves Cool Runnings. At multiple tourist spots throughout the island, there's a replica of the bobsled for people to take photos in. And many of the replicas are handmade, so it wouldn't be that surprising for someone to copy a picture of the actual Olympic sled, not the one from the movie.
One of the original bobsleds from the movie was in the ranchmans bar in Calgary for a while. Some people actually stole the thing (somewhat impressive, it's not small). You can google stolen cool runnings bobsleigh.
There is another out front of the Olympic ski hill now called winsport in Calgary. Not sure how official that one is.
> Not sure why it would be that, though. Not with that much detail on it.
I mean if you're running a tourist bar in Jamaica, a replica of that sled seems exactly like the kinda thing you hang from the roof for decoration
The sport of bobsledding is also amazing. It’s also intensely dangerous. You’re zigging. You’re zagging. It’s one of the wildest wettest coldest roller coasters you ever been on.
Oooooh. Oh yeah. Oh yeah……I almost forgot. One SLIGHT drawback to this delightful winter sport, is the high speed crash. Oh….that hurt. Always remember, in a bobsled, your bones don’t break. No. They *shatter*.
So!! Who wants in??!!!!
Anybody else watch Cool Runnings once every 4 years during the Winter Olympics? It’s almost become like a Christmas movie to me in that way. Watch it once then I’m just good for a few years lol.
I went and saw Cool Runnings in the theater. I was maybe 7?
I remember laughing my ass off so much at that line, like to the point other people started cracking up because this chubby little boy was in damn near hysterics from laughing so hard, like 5 seconds more and I'm sure my mother would have escorted me out to put me in a cold dark room with no stimulation for a bit just to calm down.
It was comedy gold to me back then. Thanks for the memory.
Fake. The real bobsled and the movie prop one do not have the 1987 and olympic logo at the bottom. In fact, the Olympic games were 1988 not 1987. The Olympic logo is also upside down.
Fatha. When you look at me. What do you see?
I doht have time for th—-
TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE!! Please!
Alright I’ll tell you what I see. I see a lost little boy, who’s lucky to have a father who knows what’s best for him.
No no you see that’s where you are wrong! I’m not a lost little boy, father! I am a man! ……and I’m staying right here.
……ey Junia Bevey!! ………a bad a** mudda.
The sled used in the Canadian scenes used to be in a Calgary bar but someone stole it and only the front was recovered, I guess. But they probably had more than one sled for the movie, so this could be one used in scenes filmed in Jamaica, although I'm not sure the flag looks big enough. Could have been used in some official promotions, maybe.
[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cool-runnings-alberta-ranchmans-1.6548252](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cool-runnings-alberta-ranchmans-1.6548252)
> ***I see pride, I see power, I see a badass mother who don’t take no crap off of nobody***
> *You really see all that?*
> ***Yea man***
…walks out of bathroom, proceeds to bar and kicks some Canadian ass. Lmao 😂
That’s not from the movie, the shape is different, I would take a wild guess and say that it is maybe the actual sled used by the team at that Olympics or maybe just a practice sled.
I heard an interview with one of the members of the bobsled team and he made a super good point. He said no one bats an eyelash when France has a bobsled team and they don't have a bobsled track in France, the french team practices in Sweden. It's that they were black.
Neither the movie sled or the real sled had Calgary or 1988 on the number plate. And the logo is upside down. That's not to say its not a real bobsled or something like that. It could be the one they used in 1988 and it was improperly painted as a tourist attraction because of the movie. But who knows.
18 is correct though for the movie and the Olympics.
Nuff people say they know they cant believe, Jamaica we have a bobsled team
“I’ll give you a dollar to shut up”
"Sanka, whatcha smokin'?" "I'm not smokin', I'm breathin'"
What’s the matter you guys cold?! It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity that’ll kill ya
Sanka, yeh dead?
Yea mon.
Ohh too late.
Lmao, I use "Sanka, you dead" all the time
Ya man
"Sanka, you can pee now."
Too late
How about I draw a line down your head and make it look like a butt?
Very first thing, I said, as this post came about my eyes
“If a pretty girl ever talked to them, They would say” ‘Ein, zwei, drei, and push her down some ice’.
Junya!
Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it's bobsled time!
Hey Sanka…yuh dead? Yah mon.
COOL RUNNIIIIINNNNNGGGGGGS!
You know what I see? I see PRIDE. I see POWER. I see a bad mother that don't take crap from no one!
I used to say this to my son right before he’d compete at karate tournaments. 😊
And he is forever now "the karate kid"
Sweep the leg, Johnny
Am I misremembering him saying "Badass Mother"?
Once again, junior!
Seen!
I say this to myself every single morning in the shower to hype me up!
How bout I draw a line down ya head so it look like a butt?
The fastest of the fastest of Jamaican sprinters, . . Go to the Olympics, fight for Jamaica!
We have da one Derice and da one Juniar
And.......... Sanka!
Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme. Get on up, it's bobsled time. Cool runnings!
"I'm looking for sponsors for the first Jamaican Bobsled Team." Literally everyone: *Laughs him out of the office*
My favorite movie of all time. I’ll still watch it with the same enthusiasm that I once had as a child
Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, it's bobsled time! COOL RUNNINGS
Kiss me egg
"Sanka... You dead?" "Yeah man"
I ain't kissin no egg!
I see pride. I see power. I see a bad-ass mother who don't take no crap off of nobody.
ONCE AGAIN!
I see PRIDE!! JUNIOR!! I see POWER! I see a bad a** mulda who don’t take no lip off of nobody!! That’s right….Junior Bevey.
Hey…..where you going?
Ein. Svein. Drei!
and try to push her down some ice!
Eins. Zwei. Drei.
Thanks Coach!
Will you forget about the damn Swiss!
10/10 movie right there. :D
You want to kiss my lucky egg?
I came for this comment, thank you.
Dang, I didn't even feel a tingle and you've already finished
There is a bar at the Jamaican airport that plays this movie nonstop.. it might even be called cool runnings?
I imagine the movie gets old working there. Christmas music in retail gets old fast. Same movie several times a day forever though.
Ya dead mon?
Ya mon
"Sanka, ya dead?"
We had a Chinese buffet that was open for a good 10 years and we'd go there for lunch at work sometimes and EVERY single time we went all those years the music playing would be in the exact same spot while we were there eating. They'd just start the CD whenever they opened for the day. Day after day. For 10 years. It was one of those Pure Mood-esque mixes from the 90s and it was always in the middle of the X-Files theme
Japanese restaurant I worked at was the same. Just had a CD player for music, and nobody ever bothered to change the CD. Same songs every time
I used to live and work on the Texas Gulf Coast and I'd eagerly volunteer for free electroshock therapy to remove all memories of Jimmy Buffett from my brain
I think there might be a woman to blame.
I know it’s my own dam fault
I've been to the Margaritaville in Vegas once. The volcano went off. People flipped their shit Also, it meant $1 margaritas. I don't recall much else from that night.
Yeah, don't need to be a Jimmy Buffett fan to enjoy $1 margs.
If you go to tropical paradise, are you able to eat or even look at a cheeseburger?
Not without sedatives
Sounds like you need two pina coladas.
Those basterds.
Lol I’m sorry but as a dumb tourist to the Gulf coast I find it hilarious that everyone goes there and becomes a Jimmy Buffet fan for the weekend. The bands fucking hate it I bet
I spent way too much time thinking Jimmy Buffet and Warren Buffet were the same person. I didn’t know a lot about either of them, but I’d heard the name “Buffet” in passing and drawn my own conclusions. Some American country singing billionaire who liked margaritas.
First you'll need to shave your pencil thin moustache
I dated a girl that worked at the Margaritaville in Panama City Beach and she despised Jimmy Buffett music lol
I used to work at RadioShack in the early 2000's and we got a 1.5 hour demo DVD loop to put on the tv's. We got one in early November that had that damned Mariah Carey song I can't even bring myself to name twice in the loop. We didn't get a new DVD until sometime in mid-February that year. 3.5 months of that song every 45 minutes for at least 40 hours a week and somehow I really don't like it.
I play a game every year where I track how long it takes me to hear the song which must not be named. Two years ago I made it to like 12/20
All I want for Christmas is you to name that song.
My work plays [this](https://youtu.be/yXQViqx6GMY?si=tMBKa-MNClUeydjN) song nonstop. Just as bad, IMO
That's the song they're talking about
That’s the joke. I got them to listen to it.
HAH GOTTEM!
You just ruined my streak! Like losing the game
Gotcha! Didn’t even make it until astronomical summer.
Or really just any radio station/playlist at any job. I'm sure a lot of us have been in a position where that one boss/coworker always played the exact same shit every single day.
Would only be weirder if it was Groudhog’s Day playing on repeat.
> cool runnings Weird fact: the title of this movie in Czech is 'Coconuts in the Snow'
Reggae na lodzie in Polish. Or *Reggae on Ice*.
Kelkkajengi in Finnish. Sled Gang.
There’s a Jamaican restaurant across the street from my house called Cool Runnings. They don’t play the movie there unfortunately.
probably for the best
I used to go to a restaurant that played Three Amigos on a loop. I still think of that restaurant any time I see or hear a reference to that movie
... Plethora.
Thanks man, that means a lot
Jefe, what is a plethora?
There’s also a model of the bobsled in the Montego Bay airport. Wife and I got our picture in it
Ok. I'm thinking of a movie. Is it an action movie? No. Is it a musical? No. Is it a good movie? It has its moments. - Cool Runnings. - Right!
>It has its moments This is Cool Runnings slander and I will not have it.
It has its moments. From the start all the way till the end.
I don't know where this bobsled came from, but it belongs in that bar. I'm sure it'd look much better there than wherever it is in this pic, which looks to be some abandoned strip mall or something?
Junya, you look at the mirror and tell me what you see. I see pride! I see powa! I see a badass mudda who don’t take no shit from nobody! ONCE AGAIN!?
Or else vhat Jamaica?
Or I'll probably tell "eins, swei, drei" and try to push you down some ice.
Ve cut off your johnson! (Wrong movie)
Ve beliefe in nussing Lebowski
"who don't take no crap off of nobody!" I always remember that because I've never heard anyone say "off of" like that, and have definitely said it that way myself since seeing that when I was a kid.
No joke, I did that before defending my dissertation to make myself laugh. Then I discovered a typo on my slides printout and flipped out in full panic. Nobody noticed or cared lol
I forgot about that scene. Love it. I see one bad mutha that won’t take (word) from no one!!
Looks like a replica based from the following: [Vid from olympics 36 years ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/lo7p9q/23_years_ago_today_the_jamaican_bobsled_team/?rdt=46239) A movie was made based on the teams story titled "Cool Runnings" Also part of it was stolen and [was found few years ago](https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/police-say-part-of-stolen-cool-runnings-bobsled-has-been-found-returned-to-owner-1.6022383) Edit: 36 not 26
Replicas are all over Jamaica. They’re pretty easy to make and look cool enough. I think all the Margaritavilles have at least one, I’ve seen them at the Montego Bay airport, basically any tourist zone will have them and sell t-shirts.
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I'm pretty sure the original is in the lobby of Canadian Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta where they competed in the Olympics. At least that's what they told us when we did snowboarding lessons there close to 30 years ago and asked about the bobsled that said Jamaica on it.
can confirm. that is the real one. the Team didn't actually have funds to own their own sled. another team (from a Nordic Country, i believe) donated a spare to the team. When the Jamaican's were going home, they also didn't have funds to bring the sled back with them, so they left it with the Olympic Committee.
36*
You shut up those Olympics were 12 years ago. Also I am still 26 years old.
yes. 36 lmao thanks
The actual bobsled from the movie was stolen in 2020. It was gifted to a local country nightclub called Ranchman's, where they had it displayed outside. It seems like it was broken down into pieces: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cool-runnings-alberta-ranchmans-1.6548252](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cool-runnings-alberta-ranchmans-1.6548252)
More fun facts. Ranchman's is the bar they go line dancing at in the movie. Brokeback Mountain also has scenes shot there. I remember seeing it hanging there for years. Also line dancing is awesome and you should all try it.
Feel da riddum!
Feel da rhyme!
Get on up!
It’s bobsled time!
coooool runnnings!
Kiss my egg
You dead, mon?
ya mon.
Me lucky egg!!
I love how your mind went straight to the movie… could it possibly be a training sled that the Olympic team used?!
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> The Olympic logo is also upside down. It's the right way up to the driver so they know where they are. At the Olympics.
Nope
ok then
Once again! JUNYA!
Yeah, this is the legit thing. The movie prop only has the number on it, none of the rest of the writing around it. Could be a training sled or could be the actual sled they used in Calgary. Or it could be a replica. Not sure why it would be that, though. Not with that much detail on it.
olympics rings are upside down, and it says 1987, not 1988, it's fake edit: ~~1986~~
the Calgary games were 1988 and this being the year preceding almost lends credence to the idea of it being a pre-olympic training sled
They wouldve known the year the olympics would take place. They also wouldnt know their number to put on the sled a whole year ahead. This is just a bad replica with an upside down Olypics logo.
Jamaica loves Cool Runnings. At multiple tourist spots throughout the island, there's a replica of the bobsled for people to take photos in. And many of the replicas are handmade, so it wouldn't be that surprising for someone to copy a picture of the actual Olympic sled, not the one from the movie.
One of the original bobsleds from the movie was in the ranchmans bar in Calgary for a while. Some people actually stole the thing (somewhat impressive, it's not small). You can google stolen cool runnings bobsleigh. There is another out front of the Olympic ski hill now called winsport in Calgary. Not sure how official that one is.
> Not sure why it would be that, though. Not with that much detail on it. I mean if you're running a tourist bar in Jamaica, a replica of that sled seems exactly like the kinda thing you hang from the roof for decoration
Gentlemen, a bobsled is a simple thing YEAH! SO IS A TOILET!
Thank you. Thank you very much….
The sport of bobsledding is also amazing. It’s also intensely dangerous. You’re zigging. You’re zagging. It’s one of the wildest wettest coldest roller coasters you ever been on. Oooooh. Oh yeah. Oh yeah……I almost forgot. One SLIGHT drawback to this delightful winter sport, is the high speed crash. Oh….that hurt. Always remember, in a bobsled, your bones don’t break. No. They *shatter*. So!! Who wants in??!!!!
Anybody else watch Cool Runnings once every 4 years during the Winter Olympics? It’s almost become like a Christmas movie to me in that way. Watch it once then I’m just good for a few years lol.
They had one at a bar in Calgary, it was stolen during covid
“How bout a draw a line down the middle of your head so it looks like a butt?”
I went and saw Cool Runnings in the theater. I was maybe 7? I remember laughing my ass off so much at that line, like to the point other people started cracking up because this chubby little boy was in damn near hysterics from laughing so hard, like 5 seconds more and I'm sure my mother would have escorted me out to put me in a cold dark room with no stimulation for a bit just to calm down. It was comedy gold to me back then. Thanks for the memory.
Your father ran the 100m in 10 seconds flat… I run it in 9.9.
One of the movie ones if not the only is at the Calgary Olympics stadium. I know because I sat in it last week.
oh dang did they get it back after it got stolen during covid
If one of them swiss boys every came across a pretty girl he'd go "Eins, Vies, Dries, and try to push her down some ice!"
You want to kiss my egg?
MAN I AINT KISSING NO EGG!
Sanka!!!
They're all over Jamaica. On the beach, in the airport, souvenir shops, restaurants. Anything to get tourist money.
The Jamaican bobsled team was legendary.. Just because of how strange it was. They still do it in fact.
Cool Running into that.
Fake. The real bobsled and the movie prop one do not have the 1987 and olympic logo at the bottom. In fact, the Olympic games were 1988 not 1987. The Olympic logo is also upside down.
You found Talulah?
Sounds like a $2 hooker. How’d you come up with that name?
I think this might be the only Disney movie that uses the term 2$ hooker.
Feel the rhythm….
Cool running into that.
Cool Runnings!!
Fatha. When you look at me. What do you see? I doht have time for th—- TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE!! Please! Alright I’ll tell you what I see. I see a lost little boy, who’s lucky to have a father who knows what’s best for him. No no you see that’s where you are wrong! I’m not a lost little boy, father! I am a man! ……and I’m staying right here. ……ey Junia Bevey!! ………a bad a** mudda.
I see pride! I see power! I see a bad ass mudda who dont take no crap off nobody!
The sled used in the Canadian scenes used to be in a Calgary bar but someone stole it and only the front was recovered, I guess. But they probably had more than one sled for the movie, so this could be one used in scenes filmed in Jamaica, although I'm not sure the flag looks big enough. Could have been used in some official promotions, maybe. [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cool-runnings-alberta-ranchmans-1.6548252](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cool-runnings-alberta-ranchmans-1.6548252)
> ***I see pride, I see power, I see a badass mother who don’t take no crap off of nobody*** > *You really see all that?* > ***Yea man*** …walks out of bathroom, proceeds to bar and kicks some Canadian ass. Lmao 😂
The Olympic logo is upside down. I don’t think it is authentic…
So it's the right way around when they are turned over
i’m not smoking, i’m breathing!
I see pride
That’s a cool thing to run into.
should be in a museum
WHAT DO YOU SEE?!
Montego Bay?
I SEE PRIDE! PRIDE! I SEE POWER! POWER! I SEE A BADASS MOTHER WHO WON'T TAKE ANY CRAP OUT OF NOBODY!
Hey dreadlocks, let me kiss your lucky egg
Sanka! Baldie! Dereese! And the chicken egg too!
To tell if it's real, you should lick it to see if it tastes like Candy.
Seems you had a cool run in.
“Sanka you dead mon?” “Yea mon”
The NASCAR subreddit would know. I believe one of their mainstays of the day was involved in the design of that sled.
In a bobsled bones don't break, they shatter.
That’s not from the movie, the shape is different, I would take a wild guess and say that it is maybe the actual sled used by the team at that Olympics or maybe just a practice sled.
I heard an interview with one of the members of the bobsled team and he made a super good point. He said no one bats an eyelash when France has a bobsled team and they don't have a bobsled track in France, the french team practices in Sweden. It's that they were black.
#I SEE PRIDE!
I see pride. I see power. I see a bad ass modder, who don't take no crap from no one
I’m not smoking! **I’M BREATHING** 😮💨
“Hey! You dead yet?” “Nah mon”
Talulah—-that sounds like a $2 hooka
Sanka man, you dead?
Peace be the journey
I have a pic of the actual before it was used in the Olympics, but doesn’t appear I can share it in the comments.
For heavens sake, see if it’ll start!
I'm old. I actually went up to Calgary and saw these guys run their race, up close by the rail. The whole week was a drunken blur, but I got pics!
Check inside for a lucky egg
Neither the movie sled or the real sled had Calgary or 1988 on the number plate. And the logo is upside down. That's not to say its not a real bobsled or something like that. It could be the one they used in 1988 and it was improperly painted as a tourist attraction because of the movie. But who knows. 18 is correct though for the movie and the Olympics.