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Had to stand on the train ride in this morning, but reading about the Olympics made it better, especially when I read p389 and cracked up as I recognised Jeremy's quote.

"You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world."

(I'll type up the little explanatory section later. I actually have to go work now.)

I'm having a late lunch, but I am having lunch.

This made me giggle on the train. Jeremy quotage!

Has anyone won the decathlon and the pentathlon?

Jim Thorpe won both at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. At the medal ceremony, King Gustav V of Sweden presented him with the golds and said, "You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world," to which Thrope replied, "Thanks, King." A 1950 poll of Associated Press sportswriters agreed, voting Thorp the greatest athlete of the first half of the twentieth century.

"The Handy Sports Answer Book", Hillstrom et al, p389


Other stuff:

- marry_a_ljuser. It's kinda amusing, even if I keep reading the LJ name and thinking of bad spam emails.

- celli posted SN porn: Homecoming. Really *good* porn. Mmmmm...


And, the combination of those two points seems to point to the logical conclusion that I should ask Celli to marry me. But if I did, I think I should do it in person, with the SN DVDs and an accounting textbook. (Distract her with the DVDs and then whack her with the textbook until she gives in.)

Huh. Violence probably shouldn't feature in a planned marriage proposal. This could be why I am, and probably always will be, single.

ETA: Oh! I just found out the Flying Dutchman class of sailing was removed from the Olympics in 1996, and replaced with the Laser style. I'm still mentioning it.

Annie is...

( My name acronym... )

Hee!