The opening ceremonies are on.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K I think that the Olympics goes after anybody who uses the name or symbols with out permission. They are "equal opportunity" when it comes to that. LOL
For example
Tom Waddell, the former Olympian who helped found the games, intended them to be called the "Gay Olympics", but a lawsuit filed less than three weeks before 1982's inaugural Gay Olympics forced the name change. This forced volunteers to suspend the sales of buttons and t-shirts in order to remove the terms "Olympic" and "Olympiad" from medals, souvenirs, t-shirts, signs, and programs, which would cost the organization an estimated loss between $15,000 and $30,000.
Event organizers were sued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) under the U.S. Amateur Sports Act of 1978, which gave the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) exclusive rights to the word Olympic in the United States. Defendants of the lawsuit contended that the law was capriciously applied and that if the Special Olympics were not similarly prohibited, the Gay Olympics should not be either.
Others, like Daniel Bell, cite the IOC's long history of protecting the Olympics brand as evidence that the lawsuit against the "Gay Olympics" was not motivated by discrimination against gays. Since 1910 the IOC has taken action, including lawsuits and expulsion from the IOC, to stop certain organizations from using the word "Olympics." Annual "California Police Olympics" were held for 22 years, from 1967 through 1989, after which, the word Olympics was no longer used for the event. The Supreme Court ruled for the USOC in San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee.
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@Mik said in The opening ceremonies are on.:
@LuFins-Dad said in The opening ceremonies are on.:
I’ve gone to drag shows, hell, I played Brad for 2 years in The Rocky Horror Picture Show that had me running around in a neglige. Fine, whatever. Not at the frigging Olympics.
AND YOU BUSTED MY BALLS ABOUT A PEDICURE?!?!?!?
I'm gonna have to beat yer ass. In a hunting and fishing kinda way, of course.
Dude, it was a mostly female cast, including 2 really hot girls that were theater majors at my school playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Janet. The girl playing Frank-N-Furter and I dated off and on, and she went by the name Trillian. Yes, from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The hot blond playing Janet was a total hippy, so dating wasn’t really a thing for her. So yes, I dealt with a fucking wedgie from hell for 2 hours one weekend a month for two years, and it was worth it.
That does not compare with getting your nails done because it feels good and relaxes you…
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This has a real Streisand Effect feel to it.
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“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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The Kremlin was outraged at the spectacle as well:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/07/27/russia-slams-olympic-opening-as-massive-failure-a85851
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@Renauda said in The opening ceremonies are on.:
An outrage I tell you. A mockery of the cult of Dionysius and the French Romantics. A spit in the eyes of Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Balzac, Hugo, Delacroix, Ingres and Dumas!
Harrumpf!
I thought the guy in one of the pictures produced quite an interesting interpretation of Balzac.
And just in case you missed it, Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells posted a photo of it just to make sure everybody got to see what was clearly keeping him up at night.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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I don’t know how but I must have missed Disgusted’s post with picture this time round.
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@Renauda said in The opening ceremonies are on.:
Personally I don’t like the lampooning of Da Vince’s art and genius more than anything else.
I feel the same. If that's all you can do, it's pretty pathetic.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in The opening ceremonies are on.:
@Renauda said in The opening ceremonies are on.:
An outrage I tell you. A mockery of the cult of Dionysius and the French Romantics. A spit in the eyes of Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Balzac, Hugo, Delacroix, Ingres and Dumas!
Harrumpf!
I thought the guy in one of the pictures produced quite an interesting interpretation of Balzac.
And just in case you missed it, Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells posted a photo of it just to make sure everybody got to see what was clearly keeping him up at night.
You misspelled ball sack.
