"It's over"!

Golden days before they end,
Whisper secrets to the wind
Your ['lympics] won't be near you anymore.

It's over
It's over
It's over

All the rainbows in the sky
Start to weep and say goodbye
You won't be seeing ['lympics'] anymore.

Good old Roy Orbison, he could belt out a great number with the best of them.  I have taken liberties with his lyric but I just wanted to express my 'joy unconfined' that the whole wretched, over-blown, over-here, huff 'n' puff has finally ended.  Well, except for today's superfluous parade upon which I trust the gods to pour their scorn, and their rain, as a sign of their displeasure at all those ridiculous bread and circuses.  The entire fandango has cost us all a fortune for absolutely nil return but happily the 'onlie begetter', Mr. Tony Blair, will not feel the pinch.  That doyen of the utterly useless millenium dome has just earned himself £1 million an hour for arranging a 3-hour meeting between the warring boards of two mining conglomorates wrangling over a merger.  Instead of a parade of athletes today they should drag that wretched man through the streets in a tumbril!

Sorry (well, not really!) to be such a grump but I have loathed and despised the entire thing.  I don't trust any of the so-called athletes and as for those jumped-up, pampered panjandrums who run the circus, in my opinion if Londoners had any gumption they should have lined the routes of those 'Zil lanes' and hurled rotten veg at them as they swept past.  Anyway, now we can all return with a sigh of relief to a nice, honest, sporting contest in which the participants are young men of the finest character imbued with all that's best in honourable sportsmanship, I mean, of course - footie's back!  Sorry, did you say something . . . ?

 

Comments

[JK]

"Sorry (well, not really!) to be such a grump but I have loathed and despised the entire thing."

How soon we forget.

"Boyle's production was free-flowing, humorous, iconoclastic, individualistic and, above all else - and here I must apologise for using an f-word that normally never passes my lips or keyboard - fun!"

http://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/duff_nonsense/2012/07/so-darlings-did-the-earth-move-for-you-last-night.html

[David Duff]

JK, that was the opening show, and I switched off immediately the 'hearties' paraded on waving their flags!

[JK]

Need I return to the archives Mr. Duff?

Seem to recall "joy unbounded" when you accidentally clicked your 'do-flicker-thingy' (the one or the two I'd meant to ask) when those Brazilian ladies were thrashing about in the sand.

"Switched off immediately"?

Humbug!

[David Duff]

But the stress is on the word "accidentally" and, as I asured the Memsahib when she caught me, the only reason I hadn't switched over to 'Today in Parliament' was because I couldn't find the 'do-flicker-thingie'. And anyway, I demand the right to speak to my lawyer!

[Whyaxye]

I will be watching this blog carefully over the next few days. You will be struck down for talking so.

[David Duff]

Oh no, don't tell me Boris has issued a contract!

[Andra]

I believe the Para-Olympics have been more entertaining.

[David Duff]

Didn't see any of it - thank God!

[JK]

Andra?

Notice anything seemingly at odds in David's reply to you to wit (perhaps to witless) - "Didn't see any of it - thank God!"

Guess who Andra, typed these immortal words (well, it is the Internet)... "I'll just spend the next nine days watching the Olympics like everyone else."

*Hint - it's in the archives. D&N's archives!

[David Duff]

JK, I am a former second-hand car dealer. You must take all my statements with that firmly in mind! Andra, of course, never believes anything I say!