OLYMPIC WIT
A Comical Collection of Humorous Quotations about the Olympic Games - Modern and Ancient, Summer and Winter, the athletes, the host cities and stadium, opening and closing ceremonies, the Olympic sports, the Olympic Oath, the Olympic flame, the Olympic mascots, the IOC, the nations, the medals, the heroes and the cheats, the triumphs and the controversies.
A Comical Collection of Humorous Quotations about the Olympic Games - Modern and Ancient, Summer and Winter, the athletes, the host cities and stadium, opening and closing ceremonies, the Olympic sports, the Olympic Oath, the Olympic flame, the Olympic mascots, the IOC, the nations, the medals, the heroes and the cheats, the triumphs and the controversies.
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TO BE PUBLISHED IN 2011
OLYMPIC WIT
To celebrate the Olympic Games returning to London, for the third time, in 2012, Olympic Wit delivers the swiftest, highest and strongest collection of comical quips and comments about the great event. A comical collection of thoughts, observations and wisecracks on all areas of the Olympic Games from Ancient to Modern from Summer to Winter from Harold Abrahams to Emil Zatopek from Archery to Yachting from Athens 1896 to London 2012 To tie in with the forthcoming 2012 Olympic Games in London, this book covers all the fun stuff written and spoken about the lighter side to the Greatest Sports Show on Earth. The diverse content covers all Modern Olympic Games (1896 - 2008) as well as Ancient Games history. It includes famous and infamous Olympians, Olympic Nations, Olympic sports and events, Olympic Fixtures (inc. Ceremonies, Mascots, Medals, Mottoes, Stadium, Torches, Villages, etc.) and Olympic Themes (inc. Age, Cheating, Clothing, Commercialism, Drugs, Food & Drink, Politics, Sex, TV, Weather, Winning & Losing, etc.) Also covered are Olympic-based Movies and TV shows, Special Olympics and even ‘Fantasy’ Olympics. "Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.' " Mark Steel in The Independent (2006) "The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights." Anthony Lane in The New Yorker (2008) "Performance enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. OK, we can swing with that. But performance ‘debilitating’ drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the 100 metres, fair play for you. That's pretty good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance." Eddie Izzard Niles Crane after Frasier hired Daphne - "Why did you have to hire Venus herself? Couldn't you have found some beefy, East-European scrub woman who reeked of ammonia?" Frasier Crane: "Well, I asked, but it was an Olympic year. The agency was fresh out." on Frasier |  "The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, 'Well at least I got something'. But when you win silver, it's like, 'Congratulations, you ‘almost’ won. Of all the losers, you came in first of that group. You're the number one ‘loser.’ No one lost ahead of you." Jerry Seinfeld in I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998) "Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount." Harry Burns [Billy Crystal] in When Harry Met Sally (1989) "Is it too much to ask that they limit the Olympics to actual mainstream sports? Admitting badminton to the Games is like admitting whiffle ball or red rover. It's something you do on a picnic between helpings of potato salad." Brad Rock in The Deseret Morning News (2004) "The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.' " Anna Quindlen in The New York Times (1992) On poker not making the Athens Olympics - "After all, the ribbon-waving rhythmic gymnasts are in. The shuttlecock-chasing badminton players are in. Even the ice-sweeping curlers are in. And poker's out? That's like throwing a party for mankind's greatest inventions and forgetting to invite indoor plumbing." Poker.net (2004) On how the post-Iraq War USA is perceived by the Olympics world - "We're the bullies on the block, the muscle-bound beach bum who kicks sand in the faces of 97-pound weaklings, the big-box chain store that knocks out the mom-and-pop hardware business, Godzilla munching and crunching our way through Tokyo, Clubber Lang pummelling Rocky, Lord Voldemort plotting to kill Harry Potter ... Even Canadians don't cheer America's victories anymore." Mike Celizic on MSNBC (2004) |