Of British sprinters and boners
So I’ve been spending some time this morning Googling around the ‘net trying to find a reference to something I swear I saw during the Olympics sometime during the 1990s.
It was a famous British athlete (Christie or Daley Thompson?), either a sprinter or a decathlete preparing for the sprint event, and he had the unfortunate timing to sprout an enormous tent peg while the cameras where on him. There he was, loosening up and stretching behind the starting blocks, trying desperately to act like he didn’t have torpedo in the chute. The TV commentators were also struggling mightily to avoid discussing it, but the camera operator and director wouldn’t cut away.
The whole thing had an absurd, Monty-Pythonish air to it, and I’m half-convinced that imagined it.
Such is my morning.
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April 19th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Can’t say as I can remember this, but it sounds pretty funny.
If it did happen, I’m sure it will turn up on the interwebs.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:29 am
Dear Krankor,
Please, see a psychiatrist. I am sure you are imagining this entire episode, and I am equally sure that it is a sign of a serious disorder. Hopefully it is treatable, but I am not qualified to make that assessment.
Are you sure you’re not conjoining a scene from Anchorman with the Olympic stuff that’s in the news lately?
Ron Burgundy: “Just walking this off…oh, come on, don’t act like you’re not impressed!”
On another note, did you know that hash affects handwriting?
Yours etc.
Lord Rupert Bryl
Jealous brother of inventor of Bryl Cream
April 21st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I’m now pretty much certain it was Daley Thompson, for what it’s worth.