Whiff-Whaff By Any Other Name

August 30, 2008 by Frank Gannon | Filed Under China, Sports, UK Politics 

It’s always fun —and sometimes even informative— to keep track of the doings of London’s recently-elected Mayor Boris Johnson.

At a “Handover Party” in Beijing last week, he remarked on the completion of the Olympics there and the beginning of the countdown to London 2012.

In typically exuberant and deceptively disheveled fashion, he covered a number of topics and indulged in a little facetious jingoism.

Because we here at TNN have a highly raised consciousness where ping pong is concerned, Mayor Johnson’s remarks concerning the history of the game caught my eye. (You may enjoy his entire brief remarks or go directly to 2:49. But if you do, you will miss his reasons for not regretting the absence of the Pancreateon from Olympic competition.)

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