So, as I've written before, I LOVE the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. I always watch, not so much for the artistic stuff, but really for the Parade of Nations. It's the moment where I think if aliens had given up on the human race, seeing that clump of humanity in the middle of a stadium might just restore it.
Moreover, I love the Parade of Nations as a little personal geography challenge - try and anticipate which country comes next!! Well, the Chinese apparently don't have an alphabet in their script, so instead of coming in in alphabetical order, they came in according to the number of strokes in the Chinese characters that make their country's name in Chinese. Totally totally screwed up my game - especially when Australia and Zambia were the final two countries immediately preceding the host country, who always comes out last.
Without my fun geography challenge, I was left with only one other diversion. It's a little game I like to call "What are they wearing?" The Hungarian women (flower patterned dresses), the Polish women (bad bridesmaid dresses) and the Spanish women (highlighter yellow outfits) were total WTF moments, topped only by the Lithuanian men in their "manpris." Oh dear. That being said, I loved a lot of the African and Pacific Island outfits that really reflected their cultures, thought too many countries opted for the boring blazer and pants combo (including the yawn-inspiring Americans) and loved the green of the Iranian's outfits (I think it was them - maybe it was India, I didn't take notes).
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I remain perplexed as to why "Scotland the Brave" (out of tune, no less) was playing in the background for much of the athetes' march. Occasionally they'd throw in some other bagpipe tune, but Scotland kept recurring.
i really had no desire whatsoever to watch...America's Best Dance Crew and The Soup were on!
Yeah, the music selection for the PoN was a little odd - particularly seeing as they paid attention to the littlest details for the rest of the ceremony.
Jeffro, you just need to turn in your man card. And you've just publicly announced your preference for America's Best Dance Crew (which I still have no idea what the heck that means - is that like the South Park crew that brought it, and then it was on?)
Oh, it's a kick-ass show of hip-hop type dancing on MTV - check it out on YouTube - SuperCrew is pretty cool
Dammit, I spelled "athletes" incorrectly.
I designed the "manpris" you were so quick to sneer at. You should write thinking that an international designer of questionable mensware browses blogger blogs for blogs that mention him. It might save you from embarrassing moments like this.
PS I'd like to see you design pants that are not pants, but offer the sophistication of pants and the party happy go lucky mentality of shorts. Then put your baby up on the world stage for it to be crucified by ignorant marine life molesting girls in the united states.
Yeah think on that.
You know, I'm half-tempted to delete that stupid comment, but it's so absurd I'm going to let it sit there and let it stand on it's own, feeble, manpris-clad legs.
Lame attempt to troll for attention 1/10
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