Not that the Olympics have anything to do with TRP

[Brian D. McCary]

.... but the following was sent to me about two months ago.   It clearly
shows that the real world makes Pynchon redundant.  He should have
written this, but the ACOG and the NYT beat him to it:

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> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:54:47 +0200
> >From today's NY Times (page A8):
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> >It is hard to pinpoint when the advertising onslaught began.  It might
> >have started with the Olympic wiener.
> >
> >In the fall of 1995, Billy Payne, the chief executive of the Atlanta
> >Committee for the Olympic Games, stood in the Georgia Dome, the city's
> >football stadium, and introduced the official wiener of the 1996 Summer
> >Olympic Games.  Trumpets actually sounded.
> >
> >The wiener, provided by the Sara Lee Corporation, another Olympic sponsor,
> >was 1,996 feet long, a world record for an encased pork product.  It circled
> >the floor of the Georgia Dome almost twice.  It was laid out on buns, lots
> >of buns.  A Sara Lee employee walked its length, squirting mustard on it.
> >But that, as it turned out, was only for the cameras.  The wiener,
> >unrefrigerated, spoiled during the ceremony and was not fit for consumption.
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