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Oh man; Canada's Olympic uniforms
Topic Started: Aug 8 2008, 12:13 PM (486 Views)
Mikhailoh
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Anybody watch the opening ceremonies? China put on quite a show. Well done.
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musicasacra
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Mikhailoh
Aug 8 2008, 10:18 PM
Anybody watch the opening ceremonies? China put on quite a show. Well done.

I caught it off and on. There was some kind of interpretive dance to a global warming theme? :huh:
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Mikhailoh
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I didn't see that. Janet and I were at a party earlier in the evening. Did they wear Gore-like dragons or something?
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kenny
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Why don't they have mullets?
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The opening ceremonies were simply amazing, the best I've ever seen by far. As they should have been; you can put on quite a show with $300 million dollars (!)

Their dance/lights play was meant to summarize 5000 years of Chinese history. Which it did in a very beautiful way.

The reception given the US athletes' entrance was deafening. Very nice.

Good God, Chinese girls are gorgeous. :hearteyes:
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I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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Mikhailoh
Aug 9 2008, 01:18 AM
Anybody watch the opening ceremonies? China put on quite a show. Well done.

Hmmm, opening ceremonies to a historic Olympic Games, or a Steeler pre-season game.

Naturally, I watched the Steelers! :P
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kenny
Aug 8 2008, 10:23 PM
Why don't they have mullets?

oops.
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musicasacra
Aug 9 2008, 01:20 AM
There was some kind of interpretive dance to a global warming theme? :huh:

Saw some of it. Like the '88 Seoul opening ceremony, they employed wave and wave and even bigger wave of people, but the Chinese's show seem a bit more creative. But, in general, I thought it over-the-top, wasted too much energy, released too much carbon into the already polluted BeiJing atmosphere.
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I watched, it was awesome. Wish I had one of those big-screen plasma TVs!

2008 drummers, all perfectly in sync. Amazing, and somehow a bit spooky (to see such precision from so many participants).

The only down side was the usual: too many commercials.

I can't imagine how any future opening of the olympics could compete with the poetry, history, beauty, style, and number of performers. A remarkable opening ceremony.
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Rainman
Aug 9 2008, 07:56 PM

I can't imagine how any future opening of the olympics could compete with the poetry, history, beauty, style, and number of performers. A remarkable opening ceremony.

It should be good -- it was the product of 60 years of practice in tyrannical collectivist micromanaging control of hundreds of millions of people.
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