TEXTING FROM TURIN.Byline: - Paul Oberjuerge We are beginning the third week now. Most journalists get to an Olympics on Monday or Tuesday before it starts. This all began, officially, a week ago Friday. Roughly a month ago. Some hints you've been in Five Ringville too long, and are ready to go home: 1. You've learned how to swear in the local language. 2. You know all the ice dancers on sight. 3. You're now using the bidet bi·det n. A fixture similar in design to a toilet that is straddled for bathing the genitals and the posterior parts. [French, pony, bidet, probably from Old French bider, to trot. in your dorm room. 4. Snowboarders describe their rides, and you actually understand what they're talking about. 5. You laugh at people who don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. an axel from a salchow sal·chow n. A move in figure skating in which the skater jumps from one skate, completes a full rotation, and lands on the other skate. [After Ulrich Salchow (1877-1949), Swedish figure skater.] . 6. That black coat you've been wearing every day for two weeks? You're going to have it covered with sequins. 7. You have no idea who's still alive in American Idol American Idol is an annual American televised singing competition, which began its first season on June 11, 2002. Part of the Idol franchise, it originated from the British reality program Pop Idol. and Survivor. 8. That local dish made out of pig's brains and eggplant? Really kind of tasty when you've had it a time or three. 9. A big chunk of your morning is given over to deciding which articles of your dirty laundry dirty laundry n. Informal Personal affairs that could cause embarrassment or distress if made public: Let's not air our dirty laundry in front of our guests. Also called dirty linen. are still wearable. Kind of. 10. In a phone call home, you accidentally call your spouse ``Yevgeny.'' CAPTION(S): box Box: THEY SAID IT ... |
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