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08-24-2008, 03:13 PM
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Has anyone seen it? How does it compare to the opening ceremony or the 2004 Athens closing ceremony? Please don't give away specifics.
I'm gonna see it on NBC tonight. |
08-24-2008, 05:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | It was pretty cool I thought . . . and dear god it didnt make me proud to be a brit 
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08-24-2008, 06:01 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Jacksonville, FL | | | How do you think the London organizers will do in 2012? |
08-24-2008, 07:10 PM
|  | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | They should just hire the Chinese to to do it.   |
08-24-2008, 07:47 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Jacksonville, FL | | | It's a shame that Jimmy page played with a stupid pop star and only shredded a solo for less than 20 seconds.
I expected more. Blegh.
They better hire some Chinese or North Koreans for their opening ceremony. |
08-24-2008, 07:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Urbana, IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Sig Saucer  It's a shame that Jimmy page played with a stupid pop star and only shredded a solo for less than 20 seconds.
I expected more. Blegh.
They better hire some Chinese or North Koreans for their opening ceremony. | Did it sound like crap when you heard it? It sounded like a mic in the corner of the stadium...
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08-24-2008, 08:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | | All I can say is "Wow, what a spectacle."
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08-24-2008, 09:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: New York, NY | | | Not quite up to opening ceremony standards. But then again, will there EVER be anything that lives up to that? |
08-24-2008, 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Snarf Not quite up to opening ceremony standards. But then again, will there EVER be anything that lives up to that? | no 
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08-24-2008, 09:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tomkins Cove, New York | | I thought it blowed...but I guess it's just me |
08-25-2008, 01:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | Closing ceremony was really cool. However, I though the London "Cultural" presentation was terrible... almost as bad as the 2012 logo 
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08-25-2008, 01:22 AM
| | | | I was expecting Beckham to do something spectacular, but I was disappointed.
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08-25-2008, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Sig Saucer How do you think the London organizers will do in 2012? | Really not sure to be honest, thankfully it isnt just in London, because it is UK funding it is spread throughout the UK  , but, I really dont know what is going to happen. Especially with 3 or 4 of the biggest olympic sponsors backing out after Bejing and with the UK essentially in a recession, it doesnt boad well Quote:
Originally Posted by blizzard However, I though the London "Cultural" presentation was terrible... almost as bad as the 2012 logo | Hence my first post  Quote:
Originally Posted by Skeletomania I was expecting Beckham to do something spectacular, but I was disappointed. | I was expecting a sniper to take him out
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08-25-2008, 08:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Boston | | | During the last winter olympics when they were doing the hand-over to Canada, was anyone else thinking "Avril Lavene is the best you can do for a Canadian music act? I WANT RUSH! WHERE THE **** IS GEDDY ****ING LEE?!"? |
08-25-2008, 08:36 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by WickedPissah I WANT RUSH! WHERE THE **** IS GEDDY ****ING LEE?!"? | At home thinking to himself that Avril Lavigne is one attractive Canadian lass?
That's what I'd be doing anyway. |
08-25-2008, 08:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | | wait until 2016 when we get it in Chicago, we'll show everyone how its done. |
08-25-2008, 08:43 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Croox wait until 2016 when we get it in Chicago, we'll show everyone how its done. | Nah, Tokyo's where it's at. Another chance to see row upon row of Asian cheerleaders in the opening ceremony again. |
08-25-2008, 09:59 AM
| | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | China had attractive women at every turn. I just don't see where England is going to get that many attractive women. Perhaps new immigration standards. |
08-25-2008, 10:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver Nah, Tokyo's where it's at. Another chance to see row upon row of Asian cheerleaders in the opening ceremony again. | I love hot Asian chicks in skimpy cheerleader outfits as much as anyone else, we can raid Chinatown for that. |
08-25-2008, 10:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: West Midlands, U.K. | | Was anybody else a little miffed as to why Micheal Phelps wasn't given the honour of carrying the flag in for the closing ceremony. Looked like most other countries had their greatest scoring athlete carrying their flag, Was great seeing Chris Hoy bringing ours in.
And all I can say is thank God our Boris didn't drop the flag, could have done with buttoning his jacket though 
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