YET ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF MY OCCASIONAL, INFERIOR ATTEMPTS TO RESURRECT NEWSQUIZ -- THE SQUEAKQUEL: You know the Rules by now. Just tell us who said this within the past week, and why:

Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn and the creature that they birth. I somehow tame it and ride it into the sky in the clouds and sunshine and rainbows. That’s what it feels like.

Your most funny, least accurate responses are welcome, and feel free to use those "like" buttons in the Comments to designate your favorites. And I like this quote so much that I think I'll enter as well.

updated, 5:30p: And your actual answer is ... American snowboarder Graham Watanabe, on how it felt to make the Olympic team in snowboard demolition derby. (He was eliminated in the octofinals yesterday.)

MOVE OVER, JOHNNY SWITCHBLADE: ADVENTURE PUNK: Is there a child in your life whom you loathe? If so, I'd like to recommend to you the worst toy in the entire world, KidzLabs' Dig-a-Dino Dinosaur Skeleton Excavation Kit. The concept is simple: use the tools provided to excavate dinosaur skeleton parts, then assemble them. Or, more accurately and without exaggeration, use a plastic knife and a nylon-tipped paint brush to turn a block of plaster with all the characteristics of solid rock into a gallon of asthma-exacerbating powder, then sift through for the fingernail-sized pieces necessary to assemble a rickety and ill-fitting model. In our house, it took two full hours of constant scraping for two adults to get all the dinosaur bones excavated. By the end, the digging tool was filed down to almost nothing. And I ended up with an arm so sore that I had to cut short my time in the gym the following day.

The package cautions, accurately and misleadingly, that the toy is "not for children under 3." It should have replaced "under 3" with "or adults." Because of the clever combination of sharp implement (the excavating tool) and heavy bludgeon (the plaster encasing the skeleton), I think the toy's highest and best use is as prison contraband.

I DON'T MEAN TO BUG YA: Jim DeRogatis, on the worst rock movies of all time. On Scorsese's The Last Waltz: "I’m from the punk era. I believe what’s great about rock ’n’ roll is community and the tearing down of boundaries. And the basic thrust of The Last Waltz is that these are superheroes so much better than you. Plus, it’s boring. It’s fun looking for the scenes where you can see the cocaine on Neil Young’s nose, but these guys are insufferable, and Robbie Robertson is the king of that."

EKATERINA GORDEEVA, COME ON BACK: In preparation for tonight's Olympic pairs figure skating long program, ALOTT5MA Award-Winning Correspondent Gretchen reviews last night's short program:

Last night, the short program in pairs figure skating demonstrated just how good the best figure skaters in the world really are -- and how far the rest of the field has to go. Chinese pairs Shen and Zhao set the bar with the very first program of the night. While I wasn't particularly moved by the performance (and affirmatively hated the arrangement of "Who Wants To Live Forever"), their extraordinary execution, including perfect unison on jumps and turns, crisp throws, and clean lifts, made everyone else look a little shabby for the rest of the night. The other highlight was Savchenko and Szolkowy. I love their skating and their theatricality -- on a night where everyone was telling love stories, it was great to see a pair embrace unusual costuming and emotions. By contrast, both American pairs were enthusiastic, energetic, and charming -- but not in the same league as the gold medal contenders. (Both American pairs, however, chose great music -- especially Evora and Ludwig, with themes from the score of Love Actually.)

Going into tonight's finals, the real question is whether the judges will be able to stomach a podium without a gold for a Russian team. Kavaguti (the Japanese woman who gave up her Japanese citizenship to become a Russian pairs skater) and Smirnov are probably the best-placed of the Russians to pull off a medal. Their highest score for the free program in international competition was a 139.23, at the European championships, which (though probably inflated) is consistent with the Shen/Zhao all-time high of 138.89. (By contrast, the highest score Canadian skaters Dube and Davison have ever pulled off was a 124.12.) Kavaguti and Smirnov are also coached by the legendary Tamara Moskvina, whom the judges adore (or fear). But none of the Russians are really dominant favorites -- and Chinese skaters Zhang and Zhang or Pang and Tong could make a run at the podium. And if the judges continue to prop up the Canadians, as they did with Dube and Davison's component scores, it's possible that we'd see a non-Russian gold medalist for the first time in twelve years.

Feel free to live-blog in the comments during tonight's competition.

added: Related -- Sarah Stodola on why Russian male figure skaters are such heartthrobs compared to their American counterparts.

THEY CLEARLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO PAINT: After 14 previous seasons of The Amazing Race (we don't count the Family Edition). you'd think teams understand that reading the instructions might be important during a racearoundtheworld. We saw more dumb mistakes during this leg of the Race than we have in quite some time, and if there's one thing I don't like on my Race it's bad racing. Seriously, Bertram van Munster: how about casting people for the show on the basis of who'd be really good at it, rather than on whose backstory seems most interesting?

[Also, a first on the Race: the 15 minute penalty. Let us never see it again.]

You may have favorites (or hateds) already; you may have nicknames for them which we can spread across the Internets. (Fienberg's getting started.) Do share.

FINALLY ALL THOSE EROTIC DREAMS I HAVE HAD INVOLVING FRANKLIN PIERCE CAN BE EXPLAINED: In honor of the day we honor all our commanders in chief by appropriating their images to shill for cars and bargain furniture, Nerve has ranked all 43 U.S. presidents in order of sexiness from Nixon to Teddy Roosevelt, who surprisingly finishes just ahead of JFK and Obama for the top spot.

THE WORST CASE BLAMING THE VICTIM SINCE HITLER ACCUSED POLAND OF "DRESSING REALLY SLUTTY": The death of Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili? According to the International Luge Federation's swift determination, it's all his own damn fault, with no responsibility ascribed to the track's ultra-fast design or the organizers' refusal to give international competitors a fair opportunity to practice on it.

[My side Olympics question: in all these X-Games events, how are we supposed to know which jumps and flips are the most impressive to judges? I was watching the women's freestyle moguls last night, and had no idea whether a "helicopter turn" is better than a backflip and whatnot. It all looks dangerous and ligament-destroying to me.]