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.
