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| Oh man; Canada's Olympic uniforms | |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 8 2008, 09:18 PM Post #26 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Anybody watch the opening ceremonies? China put on quite a show. Well done. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| musicasacra | Aug 8 2008, 09:20 PM Post #27 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I caught it off and on. There was some kind of interpretive dance to a global warming theme?
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 8 2008, 09:23 PM Post #28 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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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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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| kenny | Aug 8 2008, 09:23 PM Post #29 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Why don't they have mullets? |
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| Red Rice | Aug 9 2008, 05:24 AM Post #30 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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.
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. 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! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| Luke's Dad | Aug 9 2008, 03:39 PM Post #31 |
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Emperor Pengin
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Hmmm, opening ceremonies to a historic Olympic Games, or a Steeler pre-season game. Naturally, I watched the Steelers! |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| sue | Aug 9 2008, 03:48 PM Post #32 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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oops. |
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| Axtremus | Aug 9 2008, 06:44 PM Post #33 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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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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| Rainman | Aug 9 2008, 06:56 PM Post #34 |
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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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| ivorythumper | Aug 9 2008, 07:04 PM Post #35 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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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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