Olympic Opening Ceremony

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

I see the parade of bouncing boobs. The asian chicks are jumpin!

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by swanie

Lashes,
WHAT were those crazy Aussies wearing?!?

Nothing Green and Gold, I can tell you !! There was an ad where you could buy one for yourself only $3999.00 Bugger that.

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Block dancers - I wondered how the dancers stayed in sync when they couldn't see each other. Truly amazing. One of the best opening ceremonies ever.

See the Stoat Quote below....

Originally Posted by LashStoat

The "Moveable Type" segment was totally awesome...and has a clever illusion at the end:

At the end of the segment, several hundred Chinese folk reveal themselves from beneath the field of "type" blocks, inferring that they had been driving the entire mechanism by themselves manually.

Given the huge amount of synchronisation, and the precise acceleration and deceleration to maintain the surface contours (and given that each individual could not see the patterns) I figure it was computer driven until the folks appeared at the end.

Glad y'all got to see it - so who TIVO'd it for us ?

[LashStoat]

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

I see the parade of bouncing boobs. The asian chicks are jumpin!

Yeah, but I'll bet after they'd shuffled on the spot for the best part of two hours they were well and truly over it - by the time Ashtraya entered the arena, it's rumored that the 2000+ white patent booted girls were humming bars from Nancy Sinatra's song:

"These boots were made for wokking,
...and that's just what they'll do.
On this day these boots
are gonna be a leather stew".

And that's how they fuelled the big torch at the end.

[figment1986]

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

I see the parade of bouncing boobs. The asian chicks are jumpin!

im not complaining...


it was brilliant, you know the sad part.. i didn't watch it at 7:30pm, i watched it the 2nd time through from the 2:30 to 7am est showing. but it was amazing!