Posted 11:20 AM by Gene

Let us not put a fine face on it: the GAMES now mercifully ending were a PR disaster. They introduced not one new Coke or Wheaties annoyance; their enduring symbols are B0DE, the Happiness Boys and the Hot Dog. So far as we can tell there wasn't even any sort of world's record set in anything except for ennui. All these dull events proved why ice sports have little following otherwise; the men's hockey snooze could only have been enlivened by some goons trashing the dorms. Most importantly, they seem to have broken a lot of people of the Olympics TV-viewing habit, despite all those EXTREME sports (weren't they supposed to lasso a YOUNGER DEMOGRAPHIC?), and it's hard to see GE BANCORP and REALTY amassing much of an audience again before Vancouver, and we see no Mary Lou (fingernails-on-blackboard SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH) Retton of the ice coming to Little Jeffy's rescue, assuming he hasn't been fired by then. THE GAMES' only hope as a TV tentpole is in GE B&R selling its subsid. One would say the ORGANIZERS needn't worry as they'll always have CEOs taking three-month vacations and endlessly haranguing their subordinates afterwards, but even in the sealed caves of their brains a little light must someday shine through, created by the burning funeral pyres of their wasted money.