olympic kill board

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So far we aussies have managed to force down :

Russian/Ukrainian (crime boss, IOC approved...)
last seen spinning into cloud of IOC hot air, not seen to fall. records show him still on strength of IOC with new papers, no sign of bishop.

Korean Criminal (boxing fraudster and all round buttwad, IOC approved)last seen being forced to land on his own airstrip, reported as destroyed but records show him still on strength etc etc, still no sign of Bishop.

1 Olympic cyclist run down, reported as OOC but appears in hospital records as only forced to land,back on duty. Bishop still nowhere to be seen. pilot in control charged & grounded by provost marshal, awaiting disciplinary hearing.

The adjutant reports many others seen to fall EPO in thier own lines but again no records are available on thier actual number.


Hmmmm makes ya think.....

[Vin]

Chris

40 OOCs on the Eastern Front ?


Vin

[Billy_Bishop]

Bishop was sent home after scoring his 72nd victory.

VBR,

Al

After that bloody awful ceremony we should be sent to HE for retraining. AAAAARGH who thought up that tower? a politician of course. And why light it by a nobody when we have so many proven athletes here already?
Its got me worried, but if thats our leaders idea of a top quality opening ceremony im seriously thinking of going down after that green tailed rumpler...
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"I-got-the-bus-home-Biggles,"
"sure you did,"nodded Biggles forcing a smile.
"what was it laddie,-Archie?"
The pilot looked at his flight commander with wide open eyes."my own fault,"he whispered faintly...
"i went down-after the rumpler-with the green-tail
.Thought Id-be-clever." He smiled wanly......
"Its getting dark early; where are you-Biggles--?"
Thank god the boys gone.Now there is only 3 weeks of press rubbish to cop and we can go back to living our own lives not someone elses.

Geez that cynical

chris

>>>Bishop was sent home after scoring his 72nd victory. <<<

To be more precise it should read---Bishop was sent home after CLAIMING his 72nd victory.

There is a difference

[Vin]

Rumanian Heavy Artillery out of action.


Vin

Last night I was complaining about the network showing MEN'S gymnastics until my sister in law reminded me that women like to watch such things.
Can those Swiss gals run or what?

A friend was at circular quay on Sydney Harbour for the opening ceremony as It was visible around the city on big screens.
He reported a huge chorus of Booing for the US team marching in, the French too and our PM John Howard every time he appeared. Not very diplomatic but very funny apparently. I wonder which bits made it to FOX airtime? Anyone pay thier 20$ to watch?

[Vin]

Do not have Foxtel. Booing of the P M ? Couldn't be right. Why the blokes in the 4 x 100 m strumming imaginary guitars after their race ?

Couple more, this time cyclists OOC.


Vin

The message posted by Chris on the 16th was most intriguing. Eighteen days spent in Australia does not make me an expert on Australia, but 60 years in Canada probably allow me to suggest some comparisons. My wife and I watched the Olympic opening ceremonies at a most ungodly Canadian hour, and had I been able to access a computer that day (or the next) I would have despatched messages to my Australian friends along the lines of "Well done". The subsequent comments read on this thread were thus all the more surprsing.

Intrigued as I am at the ways Canadians and Australians resemble one another (though differences are equally significant), I would hope that Chris's remarks are NOT typical of Australian sentiments, for otherwise I would conclude that Australians are as adept at denigrating their own achievements as Canadians are prone to do with our own. Editorial comments here echoed our personal sentiments - that it was a great spectacle, and that the concluding stages of the torch relay, plus the lighting of the flame itself, were inspired events, rich both in symbolism and substance.

Watching the ceremonies, I had no impression that Australians had been so rude as to boo the American athletes; I thought the reception of the Indonesians very quiet (and with good reason). In short, the event that I was watching was an excellent representation of Australia. To be brutally frank (and at the risk of losing friends) the only person who disappointed Monique and I was the Governor-General. His refusal to use the other official language of the Olympics (which, in today's world, merely acknowledges the man who recreated the concept and the international character of the games) was boorish, and his delivery of fewer than 30 words to open the games (including nearly knocking over the microphones) left us wondering if he was drunk.

Doubtless when Australia becomes a republic it will have a president with greater grace. That detail aside, we applauded all that went before and after, and every Canadian newspaper I have read since then has been equally laudatory. The aforesaid comments that inspired/provoked this communication of mine denote characteristics that I deplore as much when uttered by my fellow citizens as when expressed here. Australia has done better than you admit - and possibly better than you know.