Wimbleton

We don't all play tennis because we want to get to Wimbleton, or golf because we have our eye on the Masters...do it because you love writing.

How many SF/F books are published in a year Glenda Larke 2009

And in the UK, if tennis champions at Wimbleton and celebrities and Senators can follow monarchial protocol on UK turf - it is no big deal despite our 21st Century jingoists like Scott at Powerline getting in a lather about it.

"Americans do not bow to royalty. In my view, when the royal is the ruling tyrant of a despotic regime, the wrong is compounded." Ann Althouse 2009

The latest issue has a cover of the war that was fought for 4 1/2 hours by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal at Wimbleton...now thought to be the greatest championship match, most intense of any in tennis.

"Why is it so hard for a magazine to shoot a decent celebrity cover?" Ann Althouse 2008

It's become a cliche from overuse and the insipid connection to Wimbleton, but Rudyard Kipling's If comes to mind:

After all the attacks, the audience for Palin's speech tonight will be huge. Ann Althouse 2008

I want to see who wins Wimbleton, the 2007 World Series, NBA, NFL Championships, and the next World Soccer Cup, and what's for dinner this evening?

A Modest 'Kill the Terrorists' Proposal by a Modern-Day Jonathan Swift 2007

The Wombles of Wimbleton Common were a terrific British kids 'show (though I later read and fell in love with Michael DeLarabetti's Borribles books, and realized how terribly saccharine the Wombles really were).

Boing Boing: August 26, 2001 - September 1, 2001 Archives 2001

On Thursday morning we were still laughing when the guns of Wimbleton proceeded to query our hilarity.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

Wimbleton road, 'mence' ter complain 'bout somebody stealin 'chickens fum his hen-'ouse.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

Wimbleton was three or four miles away, and we were not therefore in a position to reciprocate the attentions we received from it.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

Going home by train he always takes the down-train, no matter whether he be proceeding southward to Wimbleton, westward to Shepherd’s Bush, northward to Tottenham or eastward to Noak’s Hill.

Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage Henry Louis 1921