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OLBERMANN: "Bests" in a moment, and I think one of the Bushies just complained that Tom
Ridge did not attack Bush hard enough.
First, on this date in 1980, while leaving Shea Stadium in New York, already late for
work, I leaped head first into the overhead of the doorway of a New York City subway car.
One and one-half stitches, one concussion, 414 bouts of nausea, some temporary amnesia
and some permanent inner ear damage later, I got better. And thus was born the cliche
"Never run for a train, there will always be another one."
Let's play "Oddball."
Actually, I know who actually started that but I have forgotten. We begin at the Track
and Field World Championships in Berlin where mascot Berlino the bear's attempts to steal
the spotlight from the actual athletes ended in tragedy. First, he was hamming it up with
Usain Bolt after the sprinter set the world record in the 200. Then the bear got into
the act after Bolt's fellow Jamaican Melanie Walker won the title in the 400-meter hurdle.
Berlino coaxed the champion into a piggyback ride and clearly, oh, my...
Berlino has no future in hurdling. Oh. So, after this display, Berlino may not be able
to have a family. And thus was born the cliche, "Never run for a hurdler, there will always
be another one."
In Pettling in Germany, where two young people are just out there doing some heavy pettling
in the field. No, no. They're just smooching and why not? Because they just got engaged,
because Marcus Schmidt there is the son of a farmer who wanted to propose to his girlfriend
in this special way.
When the time was right in a move that would make Dwight Schrute from "The Office" proud
- he stacked 150 bales of hay reading in German, "Willst mich heiraten?" Translation, either
will you marry me, or more colloquially speaking, I am a jelly doughnut. His girlfriend said
yes and the couple then went on this romantic stroll through proposal-henge.