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Posted by SteveBell on August 24, 2008, 9:37 pm
HeyBub wrote:
> terry wrote:
> > Completely off topic I know but just admiring the various
> > technicalities and timing control involved in the closing ceremonies
> > of the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing! Sort of interesting to any 'do
> > it your selfer' to wonder how the various effects achieved!
> >
> > Yes, yes, I know got a dozen thing to do and it's a nice day, again,
> > outside, but hard to not watch this most impressive and
> > international event.
> >
> > Started watching quite by chance after flipping on the TV around
> > 9.00 AM local time, that's about 7.30 AM Eastern time. Been
> > watching now, live, on various Canadian Channels. In both English
> > and French for over 90 minutes. But not on any of the US channels
> > we also receive?
> >
> > Wow! Right now it's at the stage of introducing the next city to
> > host the games; London.
> >
> > Also belatedly recalling seeing some events of the 1948 London
> > Olympics on black-white British TV back then, as a teenager! Quite
> > an achievement for Britain to host that first post-war Olympics in a
> > ravaged, bombed out and heavily rationed post-war Europe; only three
> > years after the end of hostilities.
> >
> > By contrast when I first went away from home, to work in 1953, I
> > took my Rationing Book which my lodgings landlady would use to buy
> > certain foods etc. And THAT was eight years after the end of the
> > war.
> >
> > Also a post script": A genuine thank you USA for all the support for
> > Britain even before Pearl Harbour!
> >
>
> Olympics is some kind of sports gathering, right?
Sports -- that's where a bunch of guys stand in a field and play with
their balls, right?
--
Steve Bell
New Life Home Improvement
Arlington, TX
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