Neil, how about a steak and a cold one instead? :-)
On Oct 2, 5:34 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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