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"It's like Prince and J. Mascis had a baby and gave it up for adoption and it was raised by Styx and Moby in 1983." ~Eric

Olympic Wisdom: Volleyball

Announcer: You know, I asked her the other day why she wears the black kinesiotape instead of blue, and she said, "It's like Tiger Woods when he plays on a Sunday. He wears red. I wear black. The power color."
Eric: I doubt it went quite like that.
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Me: He keeps saying May. Her name is May-Treanor now.
Eric: Her name is Meesty.

More Olympic Wisdom: Gymnastics

"If you had told Russia they would come away with no medals from these games, they would have said, 'You're wrong.'" ~Announcer
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(Eric is fascinated that someone in West Des Moines made a sculpture of Shawn Johnson out of butter.)

"Shawn deserves a medal to hang on the butter." ~Eric

 "Go Nastia. Take it away from Shawn. That little brat has herself in butter."  ~Eric
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Eric: If she doesn't shed a tear, I'm going to declare her a robot.
Kate: I think I see one right there.
Eric: That's not a tear. That's where her cheeks have squeezed one out of her tear ducts from smiling so much.

Losing Never Sounded So Poetic—and Fun

"Monaco. Back to enjoy, back to party, back not necessarily to win a medal." ~Olympics announcer

Beijing 2008: Opening Ceremonies

Announcer: How many places can you go around the world where the culture is old enough that you could say, "Oh by the way, the Chinese invented paper and printing." That's actually true here.
Eric: I'd say you could probably go to any country in the world and say that the Chinese invented paper and printing and it would be true.
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Eric (after the people popped out of the boxes): I was afraid they were going to pop people out of those boxes.
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Announcer: Don't go away. Why would you?