Dear GD,

It was the inference that significant technology wasn't used that started this particular hobby horse - that, and the opportunity to engage in an intellectual debate with the finest of folk.

Hoping to see you, CD, and any LoTters that stumble into the zone when Bear and I finally cross the big wet bit.

Hugs,

The Stoat.

I believe that all of the drummers had ear-pieces as did many of the other performers. The drummers probably had a click track as something like that being performed by 2,008 performers would be neigh impossible to keep so tight without some sort of guide track.

Many other other performers also (I believe) had ear pieces - probably for the same purpose.

That detail IMO does not denigrate from the performances. As I said in my first post on this
Methinks that those of us "debating" this topic are more in agreement than this thread might indicate.

Methinks youthinks am totally correct...and from the very outset, I always said it was awesome...help or no help.

I'm totally thread-bear...someone please pass the Tylenol !!!

:)

Someone I am sure.

I find I have enough to be unhappy with him about than bitching that he did not pay close enough attention at the Olympic ceremony.

I call it priorities.

It makes me a little sad to think that they did not do the blocks with people actually-:p

I think Bush looked like most guys would during a 5 hour ceremony. Should he have had a more attentive face on because he is the POTUS? Ya. But I'm not going to knock him for being bored, tired or otherwise distracted. Did Putin and the other world leaders always look like they were seeing the best thing ever?

I hadn't been reading this thread because I didn't watch the ceremonies. It made me crack up that Bush is being criticized for looking bored. Funny.

I read that the fireworks, as viewed on TV, were actually CG representations of what it looked like to the spectators. Didn't think it would come across on the cameras. I have no problem with that personally, but I'm wondering if anyone here does?

Why is there contention over opinions and disagreements about the opening ceremonies? This seems a bit odd.

He should take lessons from the Queen. She has decades of experience at looking interested during long boring presentations and Gala Events.

...on aa side note, Billy Connolly once said that she also believes the world smells like fresh paint, because every country she visits, there's always a team of people doing up the venues she visits in order to look presentable.. :D

I thought that was done via surgery :eek: ;)

(bad BTD. Bad!)

Not surgery, nor botox.

...The Queen has perfected the art of freezing her muscles in an experssion that says "I'm sort of interested in the presentation before me". It was taught her by an ancient master of the Marital Arts who begged her never to use it for evil.

OK, so there was that one time when her concentration lapsed and she sat through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony played on 117 recorders at the Upper Cumbucta West Primary School with a look frozen on her face that said "Should one feed the corgi's fresh meat or kibble tonight?"

Luckily, no-one noticed.