Sunday, February 21, 2010

Olympics Report

Bob Slay, our more or less on-the-scene Olympics Reporter (his base is the Irish Pavilion) sends these comments:

Mental State of Vancouver:  The entire city has morphed into Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch. 

Highlight of Week One:  Jon Montgomery auctioning a mug of beer.  (He declared himself the successful bidder.)

Greatest Public Service:  Mia Stainsby's daily tribeca in the Vancouver Sun of off-beat spots to eat. (Although some may pass on the cat's poo tea.) 

Best Gag:  Stephen Colbert pointing to veteran radio guy Dave Abbott and declaring "Here is proof that the Irish live hard.  This man is sixteen." 

Moving Patriotic Moment:  Spontaneous crowd singing of "O, Canada" during a curling match (with the exception of one row that sang "Deep Purple"). 

Political Breakthrough:  Groundswell move to draft Sidney Crosby as Prime Minister, after Sid the Kid scored the shoot-out goal in an overtime that threatened to go on until dawn.  Not a bad choice for PM, but we're going for Jon Montgomery.

This is Bob Slay, reminding you, in the words of the great Ace Percival of "Sports College," to "live clean--play fair--drink up!"

1 comment:

  1. Okay, I meant trifecta. Stop with the deluge of jeering phone calls, already.

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