The next Olympics are in London - I don't suppose we could sell them to Chicago and cut our losses? I am something of a barbarian on sport, preferring games in which magnificent specimens like the sprinters need great courage to actually run - given that the rest of us are out to smack them down and test out their over-honed muscles. I also think no one should play without having done a shift down the pit or survived trying to teach Butchers 4 how to enjoy literature or do spreadsheets. Financial reward should equate to enough beer to swill away the bruises for another week. I look forward to a time in which all continents vie to get the Olympics run somewhere else.
If my book sells well Orn, perhaps you would be my guest at the prone small-bore rifle event at Bisley (or wherever these days). I can promise an action-lacked three days in certain rain and all the thrills of waiting for unexpected proton-decay in a beta-blocker to cause that final miss by a Tibetan vermin-hunter that allows the Andorran patent clerk to get the gold his ten years of obsessional training deserves until the medal is stripped over blood tests indicating innocent use of a nasal spray not conforming to Olympic standards, shortly after the entire Chinese synchronised tiddly-wink team is disqualified when it is discovered the turtle's whose blood they had been consuming in vast quantities had been reared on anabolic steroids and human growth hormone. After all this excitement, we will turn to the closing ceremony, consisting entirely of a Metropolitan Police Marching Band suppressing peaceniks goaded by tear-gas and rubber bullets whilst protesting the now very large war in Afghanistan. Whilst the authorities are suitably distracted, we will rescue the turtle and engage Tony Blair's (now Pope Blair) barrister wife to get it political asylum. The turtle, needless to say smarter than us, will simply enter the 15 kilometre river swim as a Canadian contestant, win the event and keep on going out to sea. I mean, who wouldn't pay to see all this 'fun' and commit themselves to a diabetic future drinking Coke and Pepsi in equal measure in gratitude? Slip will be President of the International Olympic Committee by then and already living in the Bahamas having sold the 2028 Olympics to Russian Oligarchs planning to hold the events in Chicago. Obama will claim the public credit, but not get, as Slip will tell us with a smile, the 'mineral rights'! On 3 Oct, 01:32, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > Bankruptcy, corruption, police oppression and Obama’s error. > > http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/2/sportswriter_dave_zirin_on_obam... > > On Oct 2, 5:17 pm, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > Come on. Someone has to win. South America has never had an Olympics. Time > > to give them a chance. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Slip Disc <[email protected]> > > To: "Minds Eye" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Fri, Oct 2, 2009 4:50 pm > > Subject: [Mind's Eye] IOC Rebuffs Obama > > > I wonder if all the scandals and the recent street melee murder of a > > student had any negative impact. > > This past year Chicago has had a good share of indictments, > > convictions, and front-page headlines. It's been one after the other > > on top of Chicago's notoriety as a state of corruption. It's not like > > the rest of the world doesn't know about it. This month has also > > brought down the University of Illinois President Joseph White after > > allegations of admissions corruption involving political connections > > that favored less qualified applicants over others. > > Obama has as well had his name tossed about during the Rod Blagojevich > > investigation. > > > Do you think the Obama's were slightly in a state of denial in going > > to Copenhagen to lobby the IOC? > > > If you were on the voting team would you have given Chicago any > > consideration? > > > Should the IOC consider it's own reputation when voting?- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
