Aug 14 2008
Flair Slut
Big Olympic cliche is the trading of pins. Little medal/enamel trinkets. I thought it was an athlete thing — “I’ll trade you my Russia for your USA pin” — but it turns out everybody from the sponsors to the teams to cities bidding for future Games are in on the action.
If you are cool (I saw this first on colleague Andrew Barron) you show off your pins on the neck ribbon that holds your security pass. As of today I have contracted pin fever and am as manic as a jackdaw (I think that is the name of the bird that steals shiny objects to decorate its nest). Here is my collection after five days. I am on track to make my flair quota.
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God, at first glance, i was afraid you had pinned tawdry glitter to bad “uniform” suspenders. Oh and where is your TPS report?
jim
And here I’d thought you might have pledged “Ukrainian” or something. Rush week in Beijing is it?