Hi, Alexander!  Awhile ago you were asking what an English(wo)man...   
   defined by my OXFORD CANADIAN DICTIONARY as a person who is English by birth,   
   descent, or naturalization... would perceive as funny.   Here are a couple of   
   incidents re the 2014 Olympic Games which I found quite amusing:   
      
      
    1)  According to news reports, Mr. Putin visited the Canadian embassy as the   
        games were about to begin & wished us luck... except in hockey.   
      
   For those who aren't hockey fans his comment may require some explanation.  I   
   note with interest, though, that he knew we'd take it in good spirit....  ;-)   
      
      
      
    2)  At the closing ceremonies, a bunch of people re-enacted the situation at   
        the opening ceremonies in which the fifth Olypmic ring failed to work as   
        planned.  (In 2010 one of the pieces of Vancouver's Olympic torch didn't   
        work initially either.)  That's the nature of show business... something   
        usually goes wrong on opening night!  But I saw Russians doing what many   
        experienced actors & musicians would have done right here at home:  i.e.   
        they found a way to fit it into the plot.  By so doing they demonstrated   
        clearly to me that they are able to laugh at themselves.  I like that...   
        and as we say in English, a picture may be worth a thousand words.  :-))   
      
      
      
      
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