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Offline Rimms

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Olympic Opening Ceronomy
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2012, 22:39:32 PM »
All right, Bejing has set a bar that can't be followed. Have a look on U Tube and see just how good it was in comparison. Please, no austerity arguments
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Re: Olympic Opening Ceronomy
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2012, 22:41:19 PM »
 ???  ;)
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Re: Olympic Opening Ceronomy
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2012, 22:48:46 PM »
Agreed Rimms - and someone should ask Lordie Coe about that.
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Re: Olympic Opening Ceronomy
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2012, 22:54:44 PM »
Quote from: Highlander on July 27, 2012, 22:33:38 PM
Mrs H maintains two things.....

1. it wasn't the real Queen and
2. there are more French speakers in the world than English speakers

Answers on a whatever...
 

I don't think it was the real Queen parachuting out of the helicopter
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Re: Olympic Opening Ceronomy
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2012, 22:56:55 PM »
Oh, and sadly she is wrong on the other one too!

More people speak Vietnamese than French. More people speak Spanish than English though. That may be where it came from.

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« Reply #15 on: July 27, 2012, 23:11:57 PM »
I loved it, and really didn't want to!
French is the official Olympian language and is always used first apparently
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Re: Olympic Opening Ceronomy
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2012, 00:21:14 AM »
Excellent apart from the speech before Liz! Well done GB!
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Re: Olympic Opening Ceronomy
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2012, 00:25:37 AM »
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« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2012, 01:08:53 AM »
Should have been English and then French The games are in England not France
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Re: Olympic Opening Ceronomy
« Reply #19 on: July 28, 2012, 01:19:33 AM »
Loved it all bar Paul Mcartney, who seems to spoil everything he appears in
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