Beijing Olympics Drinking Game
Alcohol poisoning awaits if you follow Radar's alcoholic's guide to the Summer Olympics. Highlights:
Take a sip when a TV announcer:
- Refers to China's "rising middle class"
- Makes note of the fact that the Chinese people eat all sorts of crazy things, including dog leg, donkey meat, scorpion kebab, and yak penis, ostensibly as way to show that Chinese culture is different than ours, but really just to use the phrase "yak penis"
Take a gulp when:
- Bob Costas, sotto voce, informs us that an athlete has "prepared his whole life for just this one moment"
- An announcer utters, "Everyone in the stadium was a winner today" (Or its inverse, "There are no losers here.")
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3 Comments:
Don't forget references to 'a billion plus people' (or some variation on that) - you would've been well buzzed about 30min into the opening ceremonies
kokaku at 11:04PM on 08/09/08
I also like moments when the announcer says something, and you can imagine someone in the background frantically waving the "change the topic" sign. My example from yesterday was an announcer talking about "the Chinese athletic training facility on a resort island that used to be an prison for exiles who were...umm... exiled."
stratusgd at 10:10AM on 08/11/08
Heh, reminds me of the 1996 summer Olympics where Bob Costas repeatedly told a story of a girl coming to the US or wherever with only a steam trunk.
jayevee at 3:17PM on 08/12/08