Alison wrote: >yep, the first olympic torch relay was created as >essentially a marketing device by the germans for the >1936 nazi olympic games.
And Hitler's dreams of the 1936 Olympics demonstrating once and for all the superior Aryan qualities were kinda messed up by Jesse Owens. >hinckley's carrying the torch???? wha????? >i'm sure it will be on the news everywhere, after all >he IS THE PROPHET!!!!! LOL! ;-) I like the idea of a 91 yr old man carrying the torch. He's got the vigor and enthusiasm to do it. Besides, could Mitt Romney deny the Prophet from carrying the torch? He'd be ashamed to show his face. >my best friend's mom is also carrying the torch, the >only torch related event threatening to bring me from >the safe and quiet of my new apartment... Our desires to watch the torch relay here in Sacramento were dashed by lingering head colds and an icy wind. We saw it on tv, though. Gil NP Stephen Scott, New Music for Bowed Piano
