quote of the day (8/8/08)

As everyone knows well, the Olympics are now underway and we're due to get 17 days' worth of tear-jerking profiles about athletes overcoming obstacles to make it to the finals of modern pentathlon or synchronized swimming (see video below). We here at QOTD are more interested in watching women's beach volleyball in High Definition. But that's just us.



Either way, before any athlete makes it to the peak of their chosen field, they undoubtedly honed their skills for years. Or they used a montage:

"The hours approaching, just give it your best
You've got to reach your prime.
That’s when you need to put yourself to the test,
And show us a passage of time,
We're gonna need a montage
Oh it takes a montage

Show a lot of things happing at once,
Remind everyone of what’s going on
And with every shot you show a little improvement
To show it all would take to long
That’s called a montage
Oh we want montage

And anything that we want to go from just a beginner to a pro,
You need a montage
Even Rocky had a montage

Anything that we want to go from just a beginner to a pro,
You need a montage
Oh it takes a montage

Always fade out in a montage,
If you fade out, it seem like more time
Has passed in a montage...."

--Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "Montage", first used in South Park episode "Asspen", then in Team America: World Police