Announcer 1: Are we back on track for regular Inishmore updates, Bob?
Announcer 2: Well, there was an upset last night, Bob. Amy had been hoping to knit a clean sleeve, but as I've marked with my Special Commentator Pen, she committed a technical fault of the most glaring kind.
Announcer 1: I think it's kind of hard to see, Bob.
Announcer 2: Well, Bob, the judges don't think so. She twisted a cable the wrong way. She's made this mistake before but has always managed to recover by laddering down from the next few rows and re-knitting. But she didn't catch this one until about twenty rows later, and laddering that far will have a serious impact on her schedule and temper.
Announcer 1: So what's she going to do, Bob?
Announcer 2: Apparently she's going to just leave it, Bob, and repeat that saying about always leaving a mistake in your work so the gods don't get jealous.
Announcer 1: Probably wise, Bob, with the clock ticking here in Day 13. We take you now to the exciting Nordic Combined Steeking in progress.
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Bob, if you hadn't bothered with the commentator pen, we wouldn't have notices. As Amy also always says, 'if you won't notice it from the back of a galloping horse, it doesn't count as a mistake'. I may be paraphrasing.
Well, Amy says that, but inside her head is that nagging voice saying "It's not perfect! How can you stand it?!?" And it's on a sleeve, too, which means that it will be Always Visible and a Perpetual Reminder of Failure!
Or she can just relax a bit and take her own advice. :)
What will royally frost her shorts, though, is if she doesn't finish *and* has a sweater with a Mistake.
just blame it on the Russian team.
Stupid hockey.
Always remember that most-useful phrase from the Castle Theatre days - "It won't read"