I post this partly to annoy Joro Jaro, but mainly because it is hilarious, especially #19.
I wish our politicians would say things like this. I wish they had vocabularies half this good. London Olympics 2012: here’s 20 jolly good reasons to feel cheerful about the Games . . . 6. We certainly didn’t spend the Beijing-style sums on fireworks -- since the Chinese blew roughly the same amount as the British defence budget -- but we unquestionably had the same global éclat. . . . 7. The president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, made a truly excellent speech, in which he paid tribute to the role of Britain in either inventing or codifying the sports we celebrate at the Olympics. Only a small proportion of his speech was in French. . . . 16. The Olympics are proving to be a boost to tattoo parlours. Plenty of people seem to want their thighs inscribed with “Oylimpics 2012” and other ineradicable mis-spellings. . . . 19. As I write these words there are semi-naked women playing beach volleyball in the middle of the Horse Guards Parade immortalised by Canaletto. They are glistening like wet otters and the water is plashing off the brims of the spectators’ sou’westers. The whole thing is magnificent and bonkers. - Jed
