"Some of the guilt for the death of our magnificent guys is the result of our commanders' negligence," he said.
Meanwhile, he was sarcastically impressed by one story on the awards ceremony pull-out, which mentioned his damning reports on Rangers FC in its second par, as if they were relevant: "Magnificent work guys: Scottish Sun finally nails the link between Rangers and Ebola".
"Shoot, the guy's magnificent".
But with a mere turn of the page Halibut has emerged happily as the party's most popular guy; his magnificent costume is coveted by all.
But he is a great musician — his recordings of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" and of Verdi's "Four Sacred Pieces," for example, are magnificent — and a stylish guy, and you have to smile at the good fortune of Chicago, a city which has embraced its orchestra like few others have.
Byron Scott, I must say, has done a magnificent job for a guy with the handicap of being a Pat Riley disciple, not unlike an old rival of mine when I was teaching Michael to win in Chicago, and he, Gumby, was with my once-sacred and now sad-sack Knicks.
"This is a guy who did magnificent things, for which he was magnificently rewarded.
Bolt was good but this guy was just magnificent, from a different planet that night," Coe said.
What a magnificent team effort from a guy with dodgy knees.
"Bolt was good, but this guy was just magnificent, from a different planet that night," said Sebastian Coe, a former Olympic middle-distance gold medalist and the chairman of the London 2012 organizing committee.
