Tuesday, August 17, 2004
this is funny....
ATHENS, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Andy Roddick is watching his back with the Australian women's water-polo team ready to pay $500 to the first girl who lands a kiss on the U.S. Open champion at the Athens Olympics.
"I'm thinking it's going to be a hit-and-run attack while I am standing in line for food or something," said the American tennis champion, aware there is a price on his head.
"I find it pretty funny, but I'm gonna be like the basketball men, you know. I'm holding out for more money!"
After being knocked out of the doubles tournament on Monday with teammate Mardy Fish, he said: "I've got an inside source who is supposed to be doing the research for me to figure out if they are planning an ambush or what."
Worried by the wind on court, Roddick admitted it was fun to live in the Olympic village.
"It's like being in a college dorm with all the world's greatest athletes and I'm having a ball.
"But we gotta be careful about these girls...!"
yeah! careful girls! dun u DARE lay a finger on MY Roddickins!
found a pot of gold@ 14:44
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"One Art"
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
So many things seem filled with the intent
To be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost keys, the hour badlly spent
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owne, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
-Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
-Elizabeth Bishop
