Tim Daggett as an announcer is HARSH.
Willow: It feels like we're going around in circles. Xander: Our circles are going around in circles. We got dizzy circles here.
'Sleeper'
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.
Kat - Aug 09, 2008 6:34:27 pm PDT #2240 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2008 6:35:18 pm PDT #2241 of 10003
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I'm amazed that all the ancienct Chinese imperial stuff survived Mao.
Kat - Aug 09, 2008 6:36:29 pm PDT #2242 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I didn't understand the cheerleaders in the high-heeled boots doing the pee-pee dance for two hours during the opening ceremony. What was that about?
They ended up using them as the barriers. Did you see during the torch part they were all holding hands and keeping the athletes at bay?
Alibelle - Aug 09, 2008 6:37:39 pm PDT #2243 of 10003
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Heaven forbid the athletes run amok.
msbelle - Aug 09, 2008 6:38:58 pm PDT #2244 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
The paiting that the footprints made, I thought they said it was going to tour.
Alibelle - Aug 09, 2008 6:40:07 pm PDT #2245 of 10003
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
Ah. Thanks, msbelle. I missed that.
msbelle - Aug 09, 2008 6:41:37 pm PDT #2246 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am liking the NBC coverage so far. Fewer human interest and it seems less UScentric so far. And unless I missed it in my fast forwarding, I have not seen the dreaded medal count chart.
Kat - Aug 09, 2008 6:43:01 pm PDT #2247 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I love the medal count chart! It's on my google page!
The pommel horse looks like it was custom built for china -- the base looks all pagoda-style to me.
Barb - Aug 09, 2008 6:48:48 pm PDT #2248 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
We were just checking out her bio! "It says she was born in 1967. That's gotta be a mistake. ...Hang on, she competed at Seoul. The hell?
Her first Olympics was Los Angeles in '84. She was seventeen.
And they did a feature on her earlier in the NBC telecast and they showed her in a sports bra and bike shorts and dayum is she cut.
The Chinese men's gymnastics team is freaky good. I suspect they're droids. I think the guy who just sat on the parallel bars is giving the others false hope.
msbelle - Aug 09, 2008 6:50:08 pm PDT #2249 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
As competetive as I am, in the olympics I am forever wanting the countries that have never medaled to win. I watch for the unrecognizable flags during swimming heets and cheer for them. Then I also cheer for African nations in almost everything.