Why I love live TV.
Right now, a bunch of singers in Singapore are singing some strange operatic song in what I assume is Singaporese. Why is this on my TV? The Today Show thought it would be cool to carry LIVE the LIVE* announcement of who gets the 2012 Olympics. I bet they're embarrassed! Kind of like agreeing to carry the Indy 500 and not knowing that Jim Nabors was going to sing. Think how that would be.
I'd also like to point out that the mayor of New York had the GALL to mention 9/11 in the sense of "we got attacked, so give us the Olympics" when PARIS is also in the running, which was DESTROYED AND OCCUPIED FOR FIVE YEARS BY THE NAZIS! Hell, if invasion and/or occupation gives you the Olympics, it should go to Baghdad, hands down.
London wins, Paris and New York lose. I thought you might like to know. Not entirely sure that I care. Somebody likes warm dark beer, I guess.
*Remember when Sam Donaldson was on that show called "Prime Time Live" and he always pronounced it "Prime Time LIVE!" Remember Sam Donalson? Anyone? Bueller?
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I think you missed the point here. The reason that this was broadcast live, was so that the French could be horribly embarrassed and provoked in front of the entire bleary-eyed East Coast of America.
While driving into work this morning, I heard a Brian Williams report that Jacques Chirac pulled a Frank Drebin (5 points if you get), and forgot he was wearing a live mic during a luncheon prior to the G8 session. During lunch, he told Vladimir Putin that England contributed nothing to the culinary world and that the only worse food was in Finland.
This of course, infuriated the Finnish leader (whose name can only be typed by using the atomic symbol for Boron). Why this is key, is that Finland got to vote on which city got the Olympics.
Do you think he voted for France? Doubt it.
So, England scores, France loses, and Finnish take-out suffers greatly. 10 bucks says they add "freedom fries" to their menus.
england's food sucks though
I did hear the Frank Drebin comment by Chirac* (Leslie Nielsen, The Naked Gun of course) and I also heard that it was a "big event influencing the voting" that Tony Blair stopped for a moment to address the crowd before going to the G8 summit.
So millions and millions of dollars are hanging on this decision, and it's decided by dopey comments and personal appearances? Good Lord. I wish the Olympics were in Italy, where the women are hot-hot-hot. Or maybe Spain. Or Brazil.
*Remember, Cordelia Chase said, "Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass."
Traditional English food does mostly suck - lots of root vegetables and pies for the winter. But we're lucky enough to have restaurants of just about every type that the food available there vs. what is English food are two different things. Girard, don't forget we were at a convention too.
That's awesome that London won BTW. Cos that city needs more tourists. We'll fuck it up, too. Just watch.
That was the anthem of the IoC, IIRC. And the soprano was awful. Poor girl must be someone important's daughter or something. Or she didn't warm up.
For like, five years.
So millions and millions of dollars are hanging on this decision, and it's decided by dopey comments and personal appearances?
Are we talking about London stuffing Paris to get the (chance to become bankrupt hosting) 2012 games, or the nomination of the new Supreme Court justice?
They're just so similar, I forget.
In their defence (and since I am not suffering from any anti-French feelings outside of nuclear tests in the Pacific), the Poms do make good dark warm beer. And good light warm beer.
Miller. Budweiser. Uck.
And to be clear, Fosters. Uck.
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