Curling Today welcomes the return of the Olympics although the real Olympics are still 1 ½ years away (CT is happy that the OOC recognizes the primacy of such sporting events as curling over such marginal games as baseball). To help engender interest in the Junior Olympics CT will provide useless trivia throughout the Games. Feel free to use them at cocktail parties to wow your friends.
First off, you may wonder tonight as you watch the taped NBC/CNBC/MSNBC/Oxygen/CCTV banter during the Opening Ceremonies (and it just won’t be the same without Katie Couric there) why the countries are not appearing in alphabetical order following Greece. Apparently the Chinese are ordering the countries based on the amount of strokes it takes to complete the country’s name. The Barcoloungers Association of America has lodged a formal protest over this because you can never know when it is safe to take a bathroom break. Moldova has filed a formal protest as well because they looked forward to being the country during which most toilets were flushed. Brett Favre has filed a protest because he cannot understand why not only did he not make the team but why he is not the flag bearer. But all these protests will fail because a love of stroking, as the great Billy Squier once noted, will trump all. CT will go out on a limb and predict that the flame will be successfully lit by the torch.
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