With full credit to
Frankieforehead from this 2005 thread on
BritishExpats.com, a special presentation of that most English of humour,
the ‘double-entendre’. These examples are unintentionally made by sports commentators:
Michael Buerk, as he watched
Phillippa Forrester cuddle up to a male astronomer for warmth during BBC1's UK
eclipse coverage: "They seem cold
out there, they're rubbing each other and he's only come in his shorts."
A female news anchor who,
the day after it was supposed to have snowed and hadn't, turned to the weatherman and asked: "So Bob, where's that eight inches you
promised me last night?"
Mike Hallett, discussing
missed snooker shots on Sky Sports: "Stephen
Hendry jumps on Steve Davis's misses every chance he gets."
Ken Brown commentating on
golfer Nick Faldo and his caddie Fanny Sunneson lining-up shots at the Scottish Open: "Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by
himself."
Willie Carson was telling
Claire Balding how jockeys prepare for a big race when he said: "They usually have
four or five dreams a night about coming from different positions."
James Allen interviewing
Ralf Schumacher at a Grand Prix, asked: "What does it feel like being rammed up the backside by Barrichello?"
Harry Carpenter at the
Oxford-Cambridge boat race 1977: "Ah,
isn't that nice? The wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the cox of the
Oxford crew."
Cracks me up!
Pixie
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