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Officiar Orympic Thlead! (I SAID ORYMPICS OVEL! YOU GO NOW!)
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Posts: 837 (08/24/08 10:46 PM) Registered user |
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Tuna Tovegood |
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Posts: 159 (08/24/08 10:50 PM) Registered user |
London's presentation sucks!
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Johnny Powers |
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Posts: 186 (08/24/08 10:51 PM) |
Hopefully NBC will be able to hold the IOC hostage for 2012 so that they can have the swimming finals at 1 AM London time, which would make for an 8 PM eastern
live broadcast.
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Tuna Tovegood |
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Posts: 160 (08/24/08 11:01 PM) Registered user |
London's presentation sucked! WTF was that? Random performers wearing nonidentical costumes? A bus that transforms into some
ugly stage and out comes Leona Lewis who lip syncs some cacophony? *yawn*
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goner1 |
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Posts: 5402 (08/24/08 11:02 PM) Registered User |
That London stuff sucked. That old guy with the ropes around him??
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goner1 |
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Posts: 5403 (08/24/08 11:06 PM) Registered User |
And I'm worried about the 2010 ceremonies. What kind of stadium will they use that can compete with the beautiful Birds Nest? I haven't been to GM
Place so I'm not sure about that, but BC Place is such a little dump. Is it supposed to happen at BC Place?
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squashthebeef |
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Posts: 14856 (08/24/08 11:07 PM) super badass |
I can't wait for the Giant Decaying Teeth theme for 2012. I'd say China, once again, edges out the rest of the world. Even the limeys. |
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MsJones4 |
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Posts: 3002 (08/24/08 11:09 PM) Registered User |
goner1 wrote: Wembley Stadium? |
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Tuna Tovegood |
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Posts: 162 (08/24/08 11:17 PM) Registered user |
You know that little intro they play everyday before the Olympics broadcast? Who else thinks it's really random? They show Nadia Comaneci twice when she's not even American. They show Michael Phelps and caption his name underneath and then they show Misty May and Kerri Walsh without including their name at the bottom. They show none of track's stars but they include beach volleyball of all sports. It just lacks uniformity. It's just so random. You know what I mean? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz-ksHcR_9A |
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squashthebeef |
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Posts: 14857 (08/24/08 11:18 PM) super badass |
Note to NBC:
If you really want to report that all venues were sold out, next time stop pointing the cameras at all the empty seats. Likewise, if you really want us to believe that Insane Bolt can afford to give 50k of "his own money" to chinaman orphans don't show us the corrugated tin toolshed he calls home. |
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Romber Rulz |
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Posts: 2365 (08/24/08 11:30 PM) |
Um, wtf at the London presentation?
I felt like I was watching half time of a superbowl of something. They better shapen up for the real opening ceremony, because that was pathetic. And David Beckham kicking a soccer ball into the audience? Stupid and completely out of place. I am not sure anyone will ever live up to China's Opening Ceremony, but come on... you can do better than Leona Lewis and David Beckham. :eyeroll |
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Buttinsky |
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Posts: 779 (08/24/08 11:32 PM) Registered User |
Who's buyin' the DVDs?
I want the highlights DVD, but methinks it'll be American-centric. I want the opening ceremonies DVD, but methinks it'll still have annoying commentary. Someone buy 'em and burn me a copy. tia. |
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Vegazguy |
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Posts: 12831 (08/24/08 11:40 PM) 10 per day, bitches! |
me, too! i'll give you a dollar.
goner, can i come visit you for the vancouver olympics??? |
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Lloyd Bonafide |
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Posts: 838 (08/24/08 11:40 PM) Registered user |
London can't match Peking's Olympics, they don't have a few hundred thousand slave laborers at their command.
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Lila Fowler |
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Posts: 420 (08/24/08 11:43 PM) |
goner1 wrote:Vancouver 2010 is going to be a total bust. Opening / Closing ceremonies will happen at BC Place (gag). Since this is the West Coast and the last stop for everyone who couldn't make it back east, there are all kinds of super secret smash the system anarchist plans to fuck up the games. Hundreds of people have volunteered and don't plan on showing up. All the zombies and bums will be given a one-way ferry ticket to Vancouver Island, but there are waves of replacement zombies ready to take their place. The transit line from downtown to the airport is majorly behind and all of our bridges will need to be expanded to handle traffic. We're going to have a major problem finding people who can speak French (Cantonese and Punjabi are covered though) and in general, everyone's pretty apathetic about the whole Olympics thing, probably cuz they're all remembering how destructive Expo 86 was, and still is, to Vancouver. In conclusion, America Jr. is NOT ready to play with the big boyz. |
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Gregoire |
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Posts: 28745 (08/24/08 11:44 PM) Registered user |
I'm telling you, the only thing the London presentation was missing was a slapstick routine from Mr. Bean.
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Undertakeress |
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Posts: 7879 (08/24/08 11:57 PM) Registered User |
OMG the London Mayor is like a bumbling idiot
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goner1 |
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Posts: 5404 (08/24/08 11:57 PM) Registered User |
Lila Fowler wrote: (Cantonese and Punjabi are covered though)
Yeah Vegaz come over! I'd love to go to something, but I heard to expect $2500 for ceremony and big event tix? I haven't checked on prices, but I hear tix are on sale now. I can imagine Vancouver/Whistler being on par for event venues (maybe), but just not with the ceremonial artistry and accommodating 'the world'. I went to Expo '86 and it was done well I thought, but that's not as big as hosting the Olympics is it? And yes the bridges have seen better days. |
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Atypical Male |
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Posts: 1615 (08/25/08 12:08 AM) |
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victalac |
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Posts: 1267 (08/25/08 12:25 AM) Registered user |
How about blu-ray of the opening?
Hi-def? To hell with DVDs. |
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