On your marks…get set…bah humbug! They can keep their Olympic traffic lanes and their Olympic copyright laws preventing me from cooking five fried eggs and placing them in an interlinking pattern on my breakfast plate — although I just did, so there.
I also arranged the apples into Olympic ring formation in the fruit bowl, now in a prominent location in the window of my front room.

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