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CAPTION THIS: Annie Lennox at the Olympics Closing Ceremony

Posted on 08/12/2012 8:25:37 PM PDT by Talisker



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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To: nutmeg
The thrill of watching dedicated athletes put all of their years of practice and sacrifice on the line will never fade for me.

With one exception: DREAM Teams.Professionals in the Olympics is rubbish. USA playing basketball against third world countries is as compelling as watching fat people eat spaghetti.

101 posted on 08/13/2012 6:57:59 AM PDT by Baynative (A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for others)
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To: the scotsman

[The best olympics for 30 years.]

I might agree with you if the Mayor of London hadn’t politicized it from the beginning. My other issue is the wrong network got the rights to broadcast it.

If NBC were the only network to broadcast the second coming, I wouldn’t watch it.


102 posted on 08/13/2012 8:12:05 AM PDT by RetSignman
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To: All

the oppening and closings were sloppy and disheveled.

It came across as a slapped together at the last minute deal.


103 posted on 08/13/2012 8:19:19 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Baynative

Back in the day, pros were competing against our amateurs. And I think you’ll also find that today, a lot of the foreign B-Ball players play in the NBA.


104 posted on 08/13/2012 8:27:05 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: publius911

GAY ZOMBIES ATTACK!


Agree, they were shoving down our throats.

Freddie Mercury - GHEY !

Davide Bowie - GHEY !

George Michael - GHEY !

Annie Lennox - ????

(who else did I miss?)

During the Beatles “I am the Walrus”, the line “You’ve been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down” and a man dressed up as girl drops underpants. - GHEY !

Pink lights around center stage most of the time - GHEY !

Rainbow colors around the edge of the Olympic Flag that the London mayor passed to the Rio De Janiero mayor - GHEY !

What are they going to do in 2016, put a giant multi-color sheet over the Christ statue over-looking Rio?

John Lennon’s “Imagine there’s no heaven” - Godless.

How appropriate this was the “XXX” GHEYmes.


105 posted on 08/13/2012 8:51:42 AM PDT by AlexisHeavyMetal1981 (XXX - Three times through the distiller.)
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To: chessplayer

At least they did play a lot of good 80s stuff, and kept the rap to a minimum.

But that “Jessie J” who mangled “We Will Rock You” has to go.


106 posted on 08/13/2012 8:55:33 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AlexisHeavyMetal1981

Bowie was just pretending to be gay, because back then that was considered “pushing the envelope”, once it wasn’t anymore, he pretty much confessed the gay thing was an act.


107 posted on 08/13/2012 8:57:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: AlexisHeavyMetal1981

Worse, NBC cut out Ray Davies singing “Waterloo Sunset”. Probably the best songwriter of them all.


108 posted on 08/13/2012 8:58:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Bowie was just pretending to be gay, because back then that was considered “pushing the envelope”, once it wasn’t anymore, he pretty much confessed the gay thing was an act.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

k. then I will walk that one back.

Also, when Freddie Mercury was on the screen doing his “aaaa-oooo” thing, my first thought was OWS “MIC CHECK”.


109 posted on 08/13/2012 9:00:35 AM PDT by AlexisHeavyMetal1981 (XXX)
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To: AlexisHeavyMetal1981

Brian May is a great guitarist and all, but what’s with the hair? He looked like Phil Spector at his trial.


110 posted on 08/13/2012 9:03:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: higgmeister

The link goes to a Clinton town hall meeting with Herman Cain.


111 posted on 08/13/2012 9:37:57 AM PDT by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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To: Dixie Yooper
Annie Lennox has the most beautiful, silky smooth voice any female vocalist has ever possessed.

While beauty is in the eye (or ear) of the beholder, I would say that among female vocalists with beautiful, silky smooth voices Joan Baez is among those at the top. I couldn't disagree more with her politics, but her singing voice is amazing.

112 posted on 08/13/2012 10:04:39 AM PDT by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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To: yldstrk
"you may be old bald and fat but you could be 100 times smarter than you were in the 70s. It’s what is inside that counts. The fruits of the heart are what matters and thefts, greed, homosexual glorification, adultery, constant sex, narcissism, barbarism, betrayal have become common[lace in our pagan society, demonstrating impure hearts in the majority of people."

What's in the heart does indeed count, and I try every day to condition my heart both to fight for what is right in the eyes of the Lord as well as to celebrate His creation. You are not Lot nor were you most likely meant to be, and in a wink every atom of our bodies will be consumed by worms and recycled into gases, flowers, bugs and their faeces. If in your short time you would live a spiritual life in your meaningless flesh would you not feast upon and celebrate His spiritual gifts? Are they only to be found in the trusting eyes of your pet cat? Will you take pleasure in His creation and the dreams and achievements of His children, along with the flaws you perceive in them? If you would, what better time than at these lovely Olympics? And what better time to open your heart than now?
113 posted on 08/13/2012 1:02:37 PM PDT by golux
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To: golux

yep good point


114 posted on 08/13/2012 5:26:08 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ELS

I saw that. Sorry about. I posted the correct link down thread.


115 posted on 08/14/2012 4:48:48 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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