OLYMPICS POST #2: Good, I mean "Great!" - "Super!" Nick Willis

Good on ya, Nick: you're doing fantastic (thus far)! Hey, and bless you for sharing your testimony so naturally and powerfully (on tv) the other morning; I so agree with all the sentiments you expressed, especially about ever & always being loved by God, whatever our performance on a human plane.
It's inspiring to know New Zealand's still producing inspirational achievers in running, in God's Own's long-standing tradition of the likes of Dick Quax, Rod Dixon (at least of Commonwealth Games fame), John Walker, Peter Snell, Murray Halberg and Jack Lovelock. And in the devotional, dedicated, Christlike spirit of Eric Liddell to boot. Good on ya, Nick!

*With all due acknowledgments to David and Tom of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin fame.

OLYMPIC TEAM NZ: "Incredible CIty, Arizona!"

These things change - in a matter of minutes, let alone hours...but an unadulterated, unmitigated hurrah to NZ's team in the 2012 London Olympics. Not only are we - LET'S HEAR IT AGAIN, FOR GOOD MEASURE & ONGOING PLEASURE - ahead of the accursed Aussies (yes, let's be kind on this occasion, in the grand tradition of Olympic spirit and all)...but, apparently, wonder of wonders, we are - still*, according to my like-minded, ever news-observant fellow radiophile nextdoor neighbour - #1 - worldwide - on a per capita basis - for medals (I believe generally/overall, not 'just' golds as such)!!!
YIPPEE!!!

*at least as of 2/3 p.m. apparently, and I first heard it reported on Leighton Smith's 8.40 a.m. daily 'menu'

No, Not Very Nice - All Round

To those 3 gals/classmates (small-h, to 'mix 'n match' their 6 capital name letters) who reduced 3 successive music teachers to tears - and beyond: no doubt also to nervous breakdowns, if not actually suicide, around 35-some years ago now...
                                                   but moreover to all us fellow classmates - sadly, including Yours Truly - who lacked the moral fibre/fortitude and courage/guts/gumption to stand up to 'em, and thus allowed such appalling instances of ongoing bullying of teachers by pupils to occur: SHAME - SHAME -SHAME on y'all, that is 'us all'...we were (thus) indeed a pitiful, pitiable, pathetic bunch indeed.
Need I say more...

"Let's Say Hurray to K(entucky)F(ried)C(hicken) For A Change!

...and Hu-go said, "You go!", and I said, "No, you go!"...and soon we were back with the pack and then Dad hit the track and we ate fee-ling bet-ter in-side! And life is-n't fun-ny, with that emp-ty tum-my, "Thank good-ness for  Ken-tuc-ky Fried!" Good on yer, Colonel Sanders, for inspiring God's Own's best ever tv ad...(equal best all-time favourite alongside only 'The Milky Bar Kid'.
                                                    Life at its best in 70s NZ