Medals for Everyone

Special K: I'm watching The Olympics on DirecTV. There's an Olympics app, which wasn't there yesterday but is there today. Every time I use it -every few hours- it has new features. I think they're frantically working and updating it.

b1-66er: That's a job you don't want to have.

K: No no no.

b1: See anything interesting?

K: US Women's Soccer lost their opener. Very big upset.

b1: Yeah. 

And worse, Sweden beat them last time.

And they were beaten handily.

Is it The Olympics No One Cares About?

K: Yes.

Very astute.

b1: That's funny.

K:  I think so, at least now.

Time waits for no one.

But I can record it.

Their next game is v. the lowest ranked team in the group. That should be interesting.

b1: They're gonna have to make another set of medals with an asterix* on them.

*The Olys no one cared about

K: I think the competition will be legit. 

Just lots of other stuff is strange. No fans. Nobody to give you your medal.

b1: Do you have to go collect it from a bin?

K: Yes, with tongs and a hairnet.

I haven't seen it yet. I think they said it's on a tray.

b1: A TV tray.

With a cup of Nissin.

Has the US managed to do anything remarkably stupid in the Oly Village yet?

K: Nothing has been reported.

Blow needed first.

b1: Give the Yanquis time. It's like track, they need a chance to stretch and warm-up before the long jump into social ineptitude.

K: But the hosts fired a lead guy because he did an anti-semitic comedy skit some years ago.

b1: I saw that.

K: Maybe he ate bad ice cream.

b1: What flavor Nissin WOULD a gold medalist* be assigned?

<Instantaneous response follows>

K: Potato leek for gold.

Iceberg lettuce for silver.

Banana cinnamon for bronze.

Gold flavor is champion.

Silver flavor is punishment.

Bronze flavor is sympathy.

b1: Are those real flavors?

K: Not AFAIK. I just thought of them.

b1: I love how quickly you just came up with those.

K: I'm a little tired. That probably helps. 

b1: Always.

That was the subterranean power of 24HO.

K: Yes, and The Great Discovery. 

b1: Which was what, exactly?

(you can say, it's already been discovered.)

K: Tired means creativity. 

I guess it's like a drug. 

It screws up perspective. 

Also lowers my inhibitions. 

b1: Oh THAT. 

I thought it was brain damage¹.

K: That might also work. 

¹the hidden beauty of MS.