Ginger Sooty, GLOVE PUPPET OF DREAMS provides a daily round-up of events at the London 2012 Olympics that are, quite simply London 2012.
Great to see Team GB claim the silver in the three-day eventing. Bunty, Tibby, Lucinda, Rupert and Lavinia all deserve our applause. I managed to get really close to the action this time (although my ginger wig fell off in the water jump).
Sooty tails Zara
Also congratulations to Michael “Bongboy”Phelps for securing his place in Olympic history with 18 medals. A terrific achievement. The sponsorship deal with Rizla is richly deserve. No oil painting though is he!
Shooting is another sport that doesn’t lend itself to radio.
A couple of sports for you to look out for today.
1. Cross Country – Spain is fuming, Paraguay is livid but I expect the puce faced Canadians to take this one. They are SO cross.
2. Bus Stop Haranguing – First appearance in The Games and long overdue in my opinion. Expect Bolivia’s Juan Martin Del-Irius to feature in the medal shake up but I have an inkling that Team GB’s Larry Nutter and his famous Cheese Diatribe perfected over years at Preston Bus Station to nonplussed passengers waiting to alight the bus to Colne will set the Bus Shelter Arena alive with his angry babbling.
Enjoy The Games! Sooty.
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LOL I watched our boy Chad pip Phelps at the post. What a swim 🙂
his dad is a real character too – interviewed by yhe BBC last night – worth seeing on You Tube if it is up!
thanks, will take a look 🙂
I think Phelps has changed his name to Snoop Swimmy Lion.
Gormless Gurning Idiot could be another
Americans are enjoying the worst coveage of the games. I think if Phelps would not have finished the final lap in his race the announcer would have shot himself or gone over to the skeet range and had someone do it for him. One could only hope.
Oh Dear!
i just hope the tabloid’s haven’t pressure Larry too much, but if he wins, it could lead to his dream job as Transportation Minister.
He could then harangue to his heart’s content!
Ah yes. Phelps did his bong business at none other than the University of South Carolina, Jim. A couple of hours up the road from me. 🙂
He’s a lad!
Now..I know how Sooty works, so I am a bit bemused over his positioning in the horsey photo – just where is Matthew?
Three guesses!
I can do it one!
Actually I’ll do it in two:
1) The horse is from an exhibit that the German Dr did who did things to dead peopes body’s and put them in galleries, so he is somehow interwoven in there, it’s an art piece called, “Horse impreganted with man”
2) It’s a pantomime horse, Matthew is in the rear and Floella Benjamin is in the front
Got it on one!
This made me laugh. Also…Michael Phelps was at my prom. I won’t give details, but he can’t dance and I know for a fact that he flails about in his sleep. I guess that doesn’t matter now that he has a bunch of medals…but..it’s all I’ve got.
He’d have to be careful with all those chains around his neck – he could do himself a mischief.
I had to look up “puce” to see what was wrong with our faces. 😉
Livid Canadians – a fearsome sight!
Wait – Sooty is a fake ginger?!?
I knew YOU would rumble him!
Sooty is in a rather perilous position there. I hope he wasn’t soiled during the event.
A quick hose down and he was fine!