Before I ran into that quote, I was all set to make a post out of this other quote of hers:
“I’m multicultural. I’m queer. I’m a lot of minorities. That’s what America is. To me, America is not about being a majority. It’s about having your own start. The American Dream is coming to a country to establish what you want to do with your life.”
So she was doubly blog-worthy for me. What a delightful, amusing young lady! Tracing her character back to poop, to which we could, perhaps, all of us, trace our character. What would we do without ducks, lakes, and arachnids?
And I like hearing about her after she's won. All these people who are supposed to win.... Why not wait? Otherwise, the only interesting thing they can do is lose.
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Julie writes:
"When I was a kid my family lived in Darwin Australia, at the top end of the Outback. Back then, most kids were on amateur swim teams. The ocean up north has about a 2 month window each year where there is less of a likelihood that you'll come across Box jellyfish (which we called Sea Wasps) or salt water crocs, so you can swim during that time. So one year our pool closed for maintenance, timed for that 2 month window. My brother was out training with his team, and one of his team mates got hit hard by a Box jellyfish tentacle. The coach had vinegar back in his car, but it was roughly a mile back to his car. So the team rapidly set up a foot race relay across the sand and dunes to get the vinegar. They saved his life. The kid spent some days in the hospital, and he even made the news. It's an epic memory for our family. And even with all of that, the duck poop story sounds worse!"
Michael On The Road writes:
"Ann wrote: "And I like hearing about her after she's won. All these people who are supposed to win.... Why not wait?"
"My then girlfriend did a marketing internship at Proctor & Gamble in 1982. This was in the run up to the 84 Olympics, the first to go fully corporate (and first to actually turn a profit).
"Part of her job was assembling research reports on each event, possible medalists, where/if they could be used to sell product, and what would be a ballpark $ offer to get them to promote a P&G product. Gold in a high profile event (swimming, gymnastics, track) could net the athlete big, big $. In other instances, netting a Bronze at the velodrome might get you $500 to promote shampoo for an ad in Cycling magazine.
"P&G couldn't sign athletes in advance due to the old Olympic amateur rules, but it couldn't stop reps from letting participants know in advance what offer they could expect from the corporation.
"I suspect these days P&G directly works with NBC to plant those touching stories as to inflate the value of their eventual spokesperson(s)."
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