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Well, Hatrack, like a twenty-two year-old skater whose soufflet has lost its soofle, it is time for me to leave the table.
It has been so much fun here, and I am pleased as punch to have been included in your shenanigans.
You all remind me of a young Peggy Fleming: eloquent in your expression, yet understated, like the quintessential, pre-Raphaelite heroine she is! (I have always said she has a face that should be found on the ceiling of a church.)
I am aghast at the beauty of your performance, but it is time for me to make my final spin.
Please, please remember me. But more important, remember my words, and take them with you in your hearts. Because, in the long run, the axel is the most treacherous jump because of that forward edge.
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Bye, Mr. Button. I'm quite sure I enjoyed you here on Hatrack more than I did on NBC. You don't have to leave just 'cause the Olympics are over! And if you turn into some other sports commentator I'm afraid I won't get the jokes because I don't watch much sports. (or is that many sports? Much sport? whatever . . .)
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If you're intending to convey that you watch a few sports, "many sports" would be what you'd want to say. If you're intending to convey that you rarely watch sports, period, "much sports" would be the phrase to go with.
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I know, Noemon, seeing Elizabeth behave so...so critically towards Dick Button is...well, kind of disturbing!
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I have kept it bottled in for so long, though, it just bubbled forth unspiffily. Perhaps I was just nitpicking?
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Dick, your stay here was nice, but I just didn't feel the emotion when you posted. However, I beleive that you have a bright career ahead of you and that it will be full of shining moments and triple-triple combinations.
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Blayne, Dick Button is a commentator for the Olympics figure skating. (and many other skating events.) He is known as a curmudgeon who speaks like he is right out of a 1940's movie. He was posting here for a while, and he was really annoying. It's fun to have a celebrity around, until you actually get to know him.
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He doesn't annoy me. And I don't really see how telling him to go away is fair, especially when it happened to me in Sakeriver.
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*pat pat* Blayne, don't worry. I have to defend my reputation now. I happen to know that Dick is being played by a delightful member of the board for fun. I was joking when I told him to leave, pretending that I was speaking to the real commentator (who I really wish would go away while I'm watching skating.)
I didn't put a smiley there to further the joke, but now someone thinks I'm being mean and I just won't have it! Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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But believe me, Blayne, Dick Button's ego is so firmly rooted nothing could shake it.
He will survive this. He will. And, when skating returns to the screen, he will be there. And even here, perhaps.
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Narnia, that rolling head is leaning too far back, and as a result gives the effect of slipping, rather than stately gliding, on ice. Could you please tell it to cut a sharper angle with it's forward edge?
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