Olympic Excitement

[Grey Fox]

@ CC & Jacob. If you are wondering what popular music sounds like in Quebec head over to the Francophonie place since everyone & their dogs who has had mild success in the past 5 years will perform there.

Why would someone wonder that?   

Because they have an interest into learning what the culture of Quebec is & by extension make Canadian multiculturalism a living & breathing entity.

[Grallon]

Because they have an interest into learning what the culture of Quebec is & by extension make Canadian multiculturalism a living & breathing entity.

Don't tell me you buy into that fraudulent bullshit!?



G.

[Grey Fox]

P. E. Trudeau is the greateast Canadian & human being to have ever lived. All of his ideas should be executed flawlessly without question and/or doubt.

All who differ must perish.

[Grallon]

P. E. Trudeau is the greateast Canadian & human being to have ever lived. All of his ideas should be executed flawlessly without question and/or doubt.

All who differ must perish.

G.

[Josephus]

Why would someone wonder that?   

Quebecois culture ended with Mitsou.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugJkI1u2kZ4

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Read in the paper yesterday that the Irish pavilion (not so shockingly)  is partying really loud and drunkenly til all hours of the night, and complaints from residents in the area are being met with shrugs by cops, officials. makes me think of that line from Blazing Saddles.

Interestingly it's okay for Olympic revelers to keep you up all night. Locals would get shut down hard in the same area, were they making so much racket.

I likely won't make it out to see the parade tomorrow, unless I get up way early for some reason. I heard Arnie is going to be on the leg by the Hollow tree in Stanley Park.

[Jacob]

Why would someone wonder that?   

Quebecois culture ended with Mitsou.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugJkI1u2kZ4

Bye bye, mon cowboy!!!

[Grey Fox]

Why would someone wonder that?   

Quebecois culture ended with Mitsou.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugJkI1u2kZ4

Such a shame she quit.

[crazy canuck]

In Beijing? What did we do?

The last winter games.....

[Grey Fox]

In Beijing? What did we do?

The last winter games.....

Do tell.

[Admiral Yi]

Recently saw a promo spot for the Winter Games and at the end there was a quick spot for Fairway Supermarkets, official partner.  Does not bode well for viewership; Fairway is the local shit supermarket next to the trailer park.

[katmai]

Up until Thursday night, former hockey star Wayne Gretzky had been the clubhouse favorite to light the Olympic cauldron. The Great One arrived in Vancouver earlier in the week, his father already served as a torchbearer and Gretzky himself had dodged all questions about the lighting of the cauldron. He also was the choice of Canadians, earning the most votes in a poll asking who should be the final torchbearer. But late Thursday night VANOC chief John Furlong said definitively that the Ontario native and 2002 gold medal-winning coach will not light the cauldron. This development perhaps opens up the door for Betty Fox, the mother of the late cancer activist Terry Fox. The Vancouver native, whose statue rests outside the venue for the Opening Ceremony, raised millions for research of the disease with his runs in the 1970s. Since his death in 1981, his mother has kept his memory and foundation alive. We predict that Gretzky will be the penultimate torchbearer and hand-off to Fox, who will light the flame.

[Grey Fox]

Nancy Greene ffs.

[DGuller]

Is it just me, or is Lindsey Vonn's shin injury so convenient for generating all the more hype about her?  It seems like a good way to keep her in the news, and also a ready-made excuse if she chokes after all the publicity.

[Admiral Yi]

I suppose you guys have all heard about the Norwegian luger who died during a practice run?