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dancingyel) wrote2008-08-10 07:40 pm
dancingyel) wrote2008-08-10 07:40 pm
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the most tv i've watched in the last 4 years
the olympics are here, which means i'm watching pretty much all evening, at least while swimming, diving, and gymnastics are on. by the end of the games, this will probably be more tv then i've watched in 4 years, since the last summer olympics, since winter olympics don't attract me in quite the same way.
i have no cable, so everything varies from a little fuzzy to annoyingly fuzzy, depending on some random behavior of the bunny ears. i'm also watching a lot of video from nbc. yes, i've downloaded the stupid plug-in from microsoft. i will uninstall it when the games are done, but really, whatever. i could go on a very long rant about nbc and the olympic coverage. however, i'm gonna choose to enjoy the games and that means not ranting too much, lest it spoil my own fun.
so, instead of ranting, let me share with you some entertaining quotes i've found in some of the many olympics-related articles i've been obsessively reading.
from an NY Times article about how much Beijing has been cleaned up:
"People have been urged to quit smoking and spitting, and to adopt the Western custom of standing in line for a bus, instead of jostling."
"...nor were they [the government] able to make good on their promise to teach all the cabdrivers basic English."
"Traffic has been cut in half by allowing only cars with license plates ending in an even number to drive one day, and cars with odd-numbered plates the next."
hee. i'm really a fan of the traffic-reduction strategy. not sure why i was so amused by this, but it just made me giggle.
from the same article:
"At the Tianhua Primary School in Beijing, for example, the students were becoming experts on Botswana; they knew that the people ate corn and that their favorite animal was the bull. Some were learning how to cheer — it is a good thing to applaud when the Botswanans play well, but not when the other team stumbles — and to sing Botswana’s national anthem."
i didn't know the botswanan favorite animal is a bull! that's very random.
from another article about Michael Phelps:
"He is the reason NBC strong-armed the hosts into running swimming finals at the bizarre hour of 10 a.m. local time, to satisfy the prime-time audiences in America, Phelps’s home country."
heh. yeah, that did seem a little odd, and it's both entertaining and distressing.
another swimming article
"But Kitajima, the expressive son of a butcher, once again won the race that mattered most..."
the expressive son of a butcher? really? that's exceedingly random.
all right, more to come, i'm sure. i'm slightly obsessed with the games.
i have no cable, so everything varies from a little fuzzy to annoyingly fuzzy, depending on some random behavior of the bunny ears. i'm also watching a lot of video from nbc. yes, i've downloaded the stupid plug-in from microsoft. i will uninstall it when the games are done, but really, whatever. i could go on a very long rant about nbc and the olympic coverage. however, i'm gonna choose to enjoy the games and that means not ranting too much, lest it spoil my own fun.
so, instead of ranting, let me share with you some entertaining quotes i've found in some of the many olympics-related articles i've been obsessively reading.
from an NY Times article about how much Beijing has been cleaned up:
"People have been urged to quit smoking and spitting, and to adopt the Western custom of standing in line for a bus, instead of jostling."
"...nor were they [the government] able to make good on their promise to teach all the cabdrivers basic English."
"Traffic has been cut in half by allowing only cars with license plates ending in an even number to drive one day, and cars with odd-numbered plates the next."
hee. i'm really a fan of the traffic-reduction strategy. not sure why i was so amused by this, but it just made me giggle.
from the same article:
"At the Tianhua Primary School in Beijing, for example, the students were becoming experts on Botswana; they knew that the people ate corn and that their favorite animal was the bull. Some were learning how to cheer — it is a good thing to applaud when the Botswanans play well, but not when the other team stumbles — and to sing Botswana’s national anthem."
i didn't know the botswanan favorite animal is a bull! that's very random.
from another article about Michael Phelps:
"He is the reason NBC strong-armed the hosts into running swimming finals at the bizarre hour of 10 a.m. local time, to satisfy the prime-time audiences in America, Phelps’s home country."
heh. yeah, that did seem a little odd, and it's both entertaining and distressing.
another swimming article
"But Kitajima, the expressive son of a butcher, once again won the race that mattered most..."
the expressive son of a butcher? really? that's exceedingly random.
all right, more to come, i'm sure. i'm slightly obsessed with the games.