Doh!
On Oct 3, 2:20 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fear not Slip - our current PM may not be as malleable as the CIA
> stooge come Proto-Pope Blair, but he is riding the biggest National
> Debt in our history. We Brits will have the good sense to get rid of
> him in 6 months and elect a real crook to office. Cameron, not a
> Scottish Republican Army sleeper despite his good name, will be up for
> business, Uzbekki-style. Cast out a for a few tenders for the Crown
> Jewels while your at it old chap - they'll be paste by now but no one
> needs to know until after we get the gold.
>
> The second prize is tickets to the Bisley prone small-boring rifle and
> the Narcoleptic finals (heats should already under way, but apparently
> the judges keep waking contestants by using a starting pistol). I
> hadn't thought about food Orn, as a trip to the Pie Eating festival on
> Wigan Pier (part of the magnificent cultural entertainment programme)
> is included. Homer Simpson is favourite to win the US's only gold in
> that contest, though Desperate Dan will run him close. I was hoping
> to introduce you to warm beer drinking, Britain's last fine
> tradition ...
>
> On 3 Oct, 03:48, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Let's just hope that London doesn't have an excessively rainy season
> > come 2012 that may cause another sewer overflow. I know tourism
> > agencies will be offering reduced rates if such is the case. The
> > odorous scents may over power the stench of the political
> > discrepancies but it's not a really attractive distraction. As
> > President of the IOC I will try to sell off any unwanted hosting
> > awards plus a Senate seat as bonus if the price is right. For now
> > Arch I think I could unload the bid right now to the Republic of
> > Uzbekistan, they're offering quite a bit more than the motherland.
> > However, I'm sure your PM won't be agreeable to a sell off. It's
> > history whether we like it or not.
>
> > On Oct 2, 7:34 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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