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Figure Skater

The Resume

    (July 18, 1929- )
    Olympic Gold Medalist (1948, 1952)
    World Skating champion (1948, 49, 50, 51, 52)
    U.S. skating champion (1946, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
    Sports commentator on Figure Skating
    Appeared as himself in 'Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)' and acted as an intern in 'The Young Doctors (1961)'
    Won an Emmy as Best Analyst (1980-81)

Why he might be annoying:

    His sexuality has been called into question.
    He loves to use an abundance of adjectives to describe every motion on the ice.
    He loves to use his cliche when someone does something good 'How wonderful for him/her.'
    His name sounds like an on/off switch for a penis.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He knows more about figure skating than any one that has ever lived.
    During his first Olympics, he was going to be the first to perform a double axel. When he realized that he just about had first place locked up, and did not have to perform this move, and failure to do it correctly could cost him the gold medal, he decided to do it anyway, it was perfect (1948).
    In his second Olympics he planned to perform the triple loop, and again was faced with the same situation, he would win Gold, but if he screws up the triple loop he could blow it.
    He also did it perfectly and won the Gold by a huge margin (1952).
    He graduated Harvard and became a lawyer.
    Commentating on the Olympics, he managed to reference figure skating, opera, Maria Callas, Judy Garland and 'The Wizard of Oz' in a single sentence - the rare gay quintuple whammy (February 20, 2006).

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 13 Votes: 23.08% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 67 Votes: 50.75% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 5061 Votes: 45.82% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 1105 Votes: 39.19% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 1178 Votes: 69.78% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 2179 Votes: 51.35% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 187 Votes: 49.20% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 628 Votes: 55.10% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 961 Votes: 48.70% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 1703 Votes: 61.48% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 14309 Votes: 57.81% Annoying