From the bits i have seen, the Winter Olympics in Vancouver have been quite disappointing for us Brits.We won a gold medal in the ladies Skeleton but our medal bag is as empty as Ashley Cole's underpants if the rumours of Mr Cole's equipment are to be believed.
Being a virtually snow-less island, Britain was always going to be nearer the bottom of the Medal Table than the top and it looks as though Australia are going to finish above us which is galling.
As we suck at these snow events, we have looked for other ways to entertain ourselves while the countries with the unfair advantage of having mountain ranges carve up the medals among themselves.
One good old fashioned British past-time is making fun of Johnny Foreigners names and once again it is our Germanic cousins who have cheered us Brits up after watching our two man toboggan slide down the track on it's side.
Footballer Stefan Kuntz has a place in British folklore just by the virtue of his name being daringly close to the name we call Manchester United supporters but even he has been surpassed by the German Ski jumper with the gloriously naughty name, Andreas Wank.
Yes it is childish and immature and we should know better but if Germans are going to give themselves surnames like A. Wank, it would be rude not to cackle like drains when the commentator says things like 'The next German up is A Wank'.
Great stuff.
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Let me be perfectly clear: I also enjoy making fun of foreigners' names.
The fun Henry and I would have with names like Brezhnev, Mao Tse Tung, and Allende. Well, it was really me having all the fun. I would sit back and force Henry to repeat the name Nguyen Van Thieu over and over again because he'd make it sound like "Doo."
So, Nixon approves of your mocking the Germans. After all, when I was president their leader was named "Willy".
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