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."]
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Date: 2008-08-15 10:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-15 10:29 am (UTC)Really? Because my ex-boyfriend, who I still spend an unhealthy amount of time with, can't multitask to save his life. And he always says, "It's because I'm a man. Men don't multitask. We can't."
Huh.
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Date: 2008-08-15 11:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-15 02:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-15 03:22 pm (UTC)I always thought that Rollerball would make an excellent Olympic sport.
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Date: 2008-08-15 03:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-15 03:36 pm (UTC)*checks Wikipedia hopefully*
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Date: 2008-08-15 06:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-16 11:45 am (UTC)I've got a new favourite sporting comment, coined by the legendary Uncle Jack Burnicle during last weekend's commentary on the British Superbikes Race 1:
"And there's Tristan Palmer, who rode SO well in the wet on the Tena For Men Honda..."