I have never watched these types of ceremonies before, and only watched this one because we were invited to watch with neighbours. (Our TV is larger so that was backwards but otherwise . . . .) We laughed and cringed a lot, groaned too. Laughed at the "costumes" that many athletes were saddled with. Groaned at the singer Nikki whatever who did the American thing of slowing down and customizing O Canada--and she was not that great a singer anyway. Laughed uproariously at the truck carrying Gretzky to the cauldron--because it clearly had one headlight burnt out. (Some GM/Chevrolet exec somewhere is still banging his head . . . .) But, the "show" was quite spectacular. I didn't get a lot of the symbolism, but then I am a technocrat-type of person. Except for the company, I would have preferred to be home working at the computer. GaryJ On 13/02/2010 10:15 AM, Darryl Johnson wrote: > My wife came home from a ladies-only party and said she thought it was > the worst opening she could possibly imagine. She was "bored" by the > whole thing. > > So there's obviously no satisfying everyone. (Or no explaining other > people's taste.) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Feb 13 2010 - 09:21:14 PST
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