Intelligent, Respectable Women Across Globe Inexplicably Excited For Figure Skating

VANCOUVER—As the 2010 Winter Olympics get underway, the prospect of watching figure skating and ice dancing in all their forms has inspired a surprising amount of giddy exuberance in otherwise levelheaded women worldwide. “Did you hear? Mao Asada may perform to Nicole Kidman’s love ballad from Moulin Rouge while wearing a gold-sequined shift!” the impeccably dressed Yale-educated New York–based international maritime contract attorney Ellen Conagey said to her London colleague Marlena Barstow Thursday during an intricate discussion of customs taxes and cargo liability. “It’ll be, like, triple flip, triple toe loop, triple salchow, ’One day I’ll fly away!’ Yes! Anyway, the precedent set in Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line makes it perfectly clear that Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to foreign-flag cruise ships in U.S. waters.” According to figures kept by the International Olympic Committee, similar reactions are occurring in roughly 10 percent of the world’s otherwise intelligent and respectable men.