Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for August 30, 2017
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Transcript:
the official dictionary of the games of the winter olympiad oop: stop doing that! fauxlympian, n. a viewer who exhibits sudden & unearned expertise in a sport he or she had barely even heard of a week ago. oop: hey! he 540'd that 1080! you suck! boo! orff, v. (fr. c. orff, ger. composer, carmina burana, etc.) to skate to bom-bastic music. see also orffamongous, orffic, orffulagenous, etc. oop: she's really orffing. she's orffal. orff! exvictorate, v. to mock a winner's nationality and/or national anthem. oop: andorra?! where's that?! this sounds like a pepsi jingle. boo!
An alternative to “Orff” in the composer category would be Stravinsky, whose ballet music for The Firebird is every bit as portentous and ripe with drama as Orff. But “Stravinsky” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue like “Orff” does.