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Comment on Arabs, Persians, and Olympians by The International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:20:05 +0000

We think groping is the answer. Wait. Did I just say that? Will somebody please fix the teleprompter? Thank you. As I was saying, we’re still groping for an answer. The fact is, gender is the least of our concerns. What about species? Anything could be under there! But there’s no culturally sensitive way to find out. We’ll just have to stay alert to subtle clues, such as a kangaroo tail extending out from under the hem of a high jump contestant.

Comment on Arabs, Persians, and Olympians by Al

Al — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:30:31 +0000

PS to the IOC: Now that you’ve joined the discussion, it gives us a chance to ask …. When Muslim women compete in their burqas, how are you guys going to make sure they’re really women?

Comment on Arabs, Persians, and Olympians by Al

Al — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:25:16 +0000

Right, but the Mogul Dynasty had long since expired, so we assumed that the accreditation bribes were paid by media moguls like Rupert Murdoch, who this year ran off the course and plowed headfirst into the New York post, in case anyone was wondering how his face got turned into a permanent scowl..

Comment on Arabs, Persians, and Olympians by The International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:02:14 +0000

Mogul skiing has been an official event since 1992.

Comment on Arabs, Persians, and Olympians by Al

Al — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:33:43 +0000

Penguin? Don’t you mean Panda, Your Pontiffness?

Comment on Arabs, Persians, and Olympians by The Pope

The Pope — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:32:14 +0000

You Americans are so insular! The habits your nuns all wore (and some still do) were just penguin-style burqas. Have you forgotten The Flying Nun? Sally Fields could have won the high jump by nine feet, twirling her rosary beads to the crowd.

Comment on Dick Dell: China, Firsthand by Al

Al — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:36:24 +0000

This is breathtakingly irrelevant to your comments on Çhiang Kai-Shek, but his wife was also a piece of work. Hollywood had a great, fawning welcoming celebration for her in 1943 — 30,000 people in the Hollywood Bowl and a big production narrated by John Houston. But her real achievement was to live in three centuries — from 1897 to 2003. (A Wellesley grad, by the way)

Comment on Iciclectomies by Al

Al — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:13:08 +0000

No it didn’t.

Comment on Iciclectomies by Keats

Keats — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:11:22 +0000

That happened in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coldfridge.

Comment on Iciclectomies by Al

Al — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:09:46 +0000

What would happen if she did that at rink-side during a hockey game?