Posted on 07/06/2005 4:49:21 AM PDT by phoenix_004
Per BBC(Not posted yet... ) London wins 2012 Olympics bid!!!
YES! In your face Chirac! hehehehe
My thoughts exactly.
I definitely found it amusing watching hopelessly socialist Greece go bankrupt hosting the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Or eat cow
...but chirac said the food is SO bad! I bet not as bad as the sour grapes he must be ingesting right about now!
Only if you promise to get the exchange rate back to a level that won't bankrupt me...Living on a Britsh isle this $1.89 to the pound is killin me. :)
Oh...and Congrats!
Congratulations to Blair, QE2 and the Brits!
But they do have such fine French cuisine, so much better than the Fins, Brits & Scots.
Bugger off, Chirac.
Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding for Jacques. Served with some English ale.
Regards, Ivan
Agree wholeheartedly, although in a way I'm glad New York didn't get the Olympics--I don't even want to think of how much worse the traffic would have been!
GOOD FOR THE BRITS!!
The French newspapers apparently said the only thing that could destroy Paris' bid was Jacques Chirac.
They were right.
Regards, Ivan
Paris is deeply disappointed.
Actually when the host cities use corporate sponsorships i.e.
LA, Atlanta, Salt Lake City they've all made money
Darn it, I was looking forward to watching the German athletes marching into Paris, while the French cower in fear! Or watching the French do the wave! What? It's not the wave, they were just surrendering!
Better than the Yellow Fro...oh, never mind. Why kick the french when they're down? They obviously like being there, so let 'em suck up their own sewerage as the civilized planet's most contemptible country.The London games will get a lot more traffic & tourism $$ from this side of the pond than the snarky-farty french would have. Smartest choice by the IOC. I just pray the economics of all this helps London, though, Mr. Livingstone aside.
Yahoo! Paris defeated! France defeated!
And once again Hillary didn't bring home the bacon to NY'ers.
Gee, how great for the libs it would have been if tomorrows NY Times, WAPO and rest of the lamestream media had as a headline, "Hillary brings Olympics to US."
Guess they never thought about it. As they say in French Le Bummer..HAHAHA
Oh well I am kinda happy the French did not get it. Even though usually the Olympics are a net (-) it still would have given those frogs something to crow about..
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