Roadkill murders!
Aug. 15th, 2008 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI am watching the Olympic cycling, more or less as we speak. They go round and round on a little toy track; it is most exciting.
But! I am of course reading as I watch, because a man's got to do something. Multitasks are us. And therefore my mind is not entirely tuned in to the commentary, and therefore I heard the Australian commentator say, "This young man's got a lot of roadkill murders behind him."
And I looked up, blinking; and reran it in my mind, and yes, that was definitely what I'd heard. And I had to take it apart entirely and remake it before it could actually be parsed as "road kilometres".
[Which reminds me, inter alia and à propos: my favouritest-ever sporting comment, also from Olympic cycling but way back, 1980 or thereabouts; might even have been '76. "And that took exactly 11.6 seconds, and the crowd loved every minute of it."]
But! I am of course reading as I watch, because a man's got to do something. Multitasks are us. And therefore my mind is not entirely tuned in to the commentary, and therefore I heard the Australian commentator say, "This young man's got a lot of roadkill murders behind him."
And I looked up, blinking; and reran it in my mind, and yes, that was definitely what I'd heard. And I had to take it apart entirely and remake it before it could actually be parsed as "road kilometres".
[Which reminds me, inter alia and à propos: my favouritest-ever sporting comment, also from Olympic cycling but way back, 1980 or thereabouts; might even have been '76. "And that took exactly 11.6 seconds, and the crowd loved every minute of it."]