Okay, this is just fricking awesome. It's going to be hard for any country to top this flame lighting ceremony.
It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
SailAweigh - Aug 08, 2008 6:52:21 pm PDT #1997 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
DavidS - Aug 08, 2008 6:56:43 pm PDT #1998 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's going to be hard for any country to top this flame lighting ceremony.
Dude, in Australia an archer lit it from hundreds of feet away.
sarameg - Aug 08, 2008 6:56:53 pm PDT #1999 of 10003
My god, what it took to manage that "run!" NICE.
And really, China's ceremony rocked ass, regardless of their politics. Showed the best.
Gadget_Girl - Aug 08, 2008 6:56:53 pm PDT #2000 of 10003
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Guam has a judo guy who's over 300 pounds. I want someone to tell him he's out of shape.
Oh, to be a fly on the wall at that moment.
§ ita § - Aug 08, 2008 6:57:07 pm PDT #2001 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But I have other shows that overlap this...
Time for TiVo magic.
Jesse - Aug 08, 2008 6:58:08 pm PDT #2002 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dude, in Australia an archer lit it from hundreds of feet away.
But still.
Hil R. - Aug 08, 2008 7:01:12 pm PDT #2003 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Why were several of the little Chinese flags, including the one that the little boy with Yao Ming was waving, attached to the dowels upside down? I also noticed it on the flags that the Bahrain team was carrying, and a few of the other, too, I think.
amych - Aug 08, 2008 7:20:16 pm PDT #2004 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, this beat the archer.
Connie Neil - Aug 08, 2008 7:20:37 pm PDT #2005 of 10003
brillig
Bob Costas is getting punchy.
amych - Aug 08, 2008 7:24:00 pm PDT #2006 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Fencing natter, part 2:
Becca's opponent Navarro (we're in the round of 32 now, btw) scratched with a dislocated shoulder. It looked like the kind of recurring injury that pops out on its own from time to time -- no impact, just popped it when she threw her arm back on a lunge. So Becca advances as expected, but doG does that ever suck for the other fencer.
(Mariel also advances, as does the top Chinese fencer Tan Xue, but they were all going at the same time. I'm shaking my fist at the gods of the elimination bracket for that bit of scheduling.)