London won!
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Congrats! :) Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
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Congrats! :) Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
Well done to the London bid-team. I'm not an Olympics fan and could have cared less, but after hearing this mornings final presentation on the radio you won me over. Good luck. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Congrats! :) Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
I wonder if Paris lost by one Finnish vote... The tigress is here :-D
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I wonder if Paris lost by one Finnish vote... The tigress is here :-D
I hope so :-D Chirac appeared to forget that France has had its share of mad cow disease as well.
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Well done to the London bid-team. I'm not an Olympics fan and could have cared less, but after hearing this mornings final presentation on the radio you won me over. Good luck. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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I wonder if Paris lost by one Finnish vote... The tigress is here :-D
Trollslayer wrote: I wonder if Paris lost by one Finnish vote... :laugh: Yes, at the moment England has our sympathies --------------------------------- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
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Congrats! :) Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
"Games of the XXX Olympiad" Does that mean the competitors will be nude, as was the case in ancient Greece?
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I wonder if Paris lost by one Finnish vote... The tigress is here :-D
:-D:-D That would be fair, his aggression towards the Finnish was totally misplaced...
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:-D:-D That would be fair, his aggression towards the Finnish was totally misplaced...
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Apparently from what I've heard, it was following on from a joke the previous day by Berlusconi.
Berlusconi, what another great european comic character. We shouldn't do an Union, we should do a sitcom.
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I wonder if Paris lost by one Finnish vote... The tigress is here :-D
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Berlusconi, what another great european comic character. We shouldn't do an Union, we should do a sitcom.
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K(arl) wrote: Berlusconi, what another great european comic character. We shouldn't do an Union, we should do a sitcom. :laugh:
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"Games of the XXX Olympiad" Does that mean the competitors will be nude, as was the case in ancient Greece?
6 July 2005 - Happy Olympic Tax Day. Seeing as the government here couldn't organise a social event in a brewery, what chance that the taxpayer isn't going to be taxed to the hilt to pay for "Olympics for the WHOLE country" that will benefit London and the South East, but do very little for the rest of the country. FAT Chance I reckon. Up North we will be lucky to get the Mozambique swimming team or the Fiji football squad making their base. I also look forward to the goverment subsidising the train fares from outlying areas down to London to make a day trip an affordable experience rather than a remortgage job. Bah Humbug I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
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6 July 2005 - Happy Olympic Tax Day. Seeing as the government here couldn't organise a social event in a brewery, what chance that the taxpayer isn't going to be taxed to the hilt to pay for "Olympics for the WHOLE country" that will benefit London and the South East, but do very little for the rest of the country. FAT Chance I reckon. Up North we will be lucky to get the Mozambique swimming team or the Fiji football squad making their base. I also look forward to the goverment subsidising the train fares from outlying areas down to London to make a day trip an affordable experience rather than a remortgage job. Bah Humbug I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
Baconbutty wrote: Up North we will be lucky to get the Mozambique swimming team or the Fiji football squad making their base. If you're really lucky, you'll get the the Japanese, Chinese and Korean womens synchronised swimming and diving teams round your way :-)
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6 July 2005 - Happy Olympic Tax Day. Seeing as the government here couldn't organise a social event in a brewery, what chance that the taxpayer isn't going to be taxed to the hilt to pay for "Olympics for the WHOLE country" that will benefit London and the South East, but do very little for the rest of the country. FAT Chance I reckon. Up North we will be lucky to get the Mozambique swimming team or the Fiji football squad making their base. I also look forward to the goverment subsidising the train fares from outlying areas down to London to make a day trip an affordable experience rather than a remortgage job. Bah Humbug I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
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Berlusconi, what another great european comic character. We shouldn't do an Union, we should do a sitcom.
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Congrats! :) Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
Hopefully by then Tea Drinking will be admited as an official event and the Brits can win something... *ducks* Cool news though, for the first time I feel "Wow, I want to see the Olympics." And am I the only one who thinks 2012 sounds like the distant and fantastic future? Hover boards, pill+microwave dinners and the newly elected CP government. regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Wheeler wrote: It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...
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Hopefully by then Tea Drinking will be admited as an official event and the Brits can win something... *ducks* Cool news though, for the first time I feel "Wow, I want to see the Olympics." And am I the only one who thinks 2012 sounds like the distant and fantastic future? Hover boards, pill+microwave dinners and the newly elected CP government. regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Wheeler wrote: It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...
Paul Watson wrote: Hopefully by then Tea Drinking will be admited as an official event and the Brits can win something... *ducks* We've already handled this. The whole presentation for the London bid was based around, "it's not the winning but the taking part." Paul Watson wrote: Cool news though, for the first time I feel "Wow, I want to see the Olympics." I don't. However I applaud the approach the London bid took. I hope they can pull it off. Paul Watson wrote: And am I the only one who thinks 2012 sounds like the distant and fantastic future? Hover boards, pill+microwave dinners and the newly elected CP government. hmm 2012. Only seven years off. Seven years may be a long time but 1998 only seems like yesterday to me. I'd quit one job in June, watched the 1998 World Cup, got a job around this time that year. 2012 will be here in notime... London had better start building tomorrow otherwise they won't be ready. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Hopefully by then Tea Drinking will be admited as an official event and the Brits can win something... *ducks* Cool news though, for the first time I feel "Wow, I want to see the Olympics." And am I the only one who thinks 2012 sounds like the distant and fantastic future? Hover boards, pill+microwave dinners and the newly elected CP government. regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Wheeler wrote: It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...
Paul Watson wrote: Hopefully by then Tea Drinking will be admited as an official event and the Brits can win something... *ducks* ;P Our office was hoping for Beer Drinking, because we'd have a good shot at winning that. And anyway, we do win stuff at the Olympics - particularly if it involves boats, bikes and horses ;P
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Paul Watson wrote: Hopefully by then Tea Drinking will be admited as an official event and the Brits can win something... *ducks* We've already handled this. The whole presentation for the London bid was based around, "it's not the winning but the taking part." Paul Watson wrote: Cool news though, for the first time I feel "Wow, I want to see the Olympics." I don't. However I applaud the approach the London bid took. I hope they can pull it off. Paul Watson wrote: And am I the only one who thinks 2012 sounds like the distant and fantastic future? Hover boards, pill+microwave dinners and the newly elected CP government. hmm 2012. Only seven years off. Seven years may be a long time but 1998 only seems like yesterday to me. I'd quit one job in June, watched the 1998 World Cup, got a job around this time that year. 2012 will be here in notime... London had better start building tomorrow otherwise they won't be ready. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote: . London had better start building tomorrow otherwise they won't be ready. Well Athens managed so... Michael P Butler wrote: We've already handled this. The whole presentation for the London bid was based around, "it's not the winning but the taking part." Ah OK. I rather like that. Never been a hyper-competition fan (which is why my teams always won the Spirit awards and got the "Never mind, next year eh?" comments.) regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Wheeler wrote: It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...