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2004-05-31 Europe
Official: Olympic Costs Outweigh Rewards
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Posted by Fred 2004-05-31 01:03|| || Front Page|| [11124 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

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The games were originally to cost $5.5 billion, but the security budget alone has doubled. [emphasis added]
Rethinking Greece's blind eye to and/or support of terrorists for the last 30 years, Giorgos?

(/schadenfreude)
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-05-31 1:10:38 AM||   2004-05-31 1:10:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 If they screw up the security as badly as I expect, they may have the honor of having hosted the last modern as well as ancient olympics.
Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-05-31 1:14:07 AM||   2004-05-31 1:14:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The olympics are a joke. The paleos screwed them up in 72 and since the end of the cold war the east vs west thing is redundant.

I like track and field and other top level comp. But Islam has made the whole thing an expensive PC crap hole. No, shit hole.

I'll watch only un PC stuff, boxing, wrestling, sprints, max meters, splashing.

Posted by Lucky 2004-05-31 1:23:59 AM||   2004-05-31 1:23:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Let's tap into the anger creativity of all the Ranters and come up with our own Olympic style events for this peaceful and crisis-free Mediterranean celebration.

1.) The 40 meter relay team tunnel dig

Four person crews will compete to excavate and remove soil using only hand tools while avoiding surface bulldozers. The first team to successfully transport underground a crate each of RPGs and AK-47s end-to-end wins the gold.

2.) The six meter fence climb

This nighttime competition will involve scaling a razor wire topped mesh fence after traversing a two meter deep trench and electrified trip wires. Contestants will be provided with refrigerated gel-pack lined Kevlar jackets to reduce thermal profile and improve resistance to live sniper fire. Getting winged will not eliminate competitors but gutshots represent an immediate disqualification.

All righty then. This ought to get the creative juices flowing for you Rantburgers. Let's see some knee slappers.
Posted by Zenster 2004-05-31 1:51:56 AM||   2004-05-31 1:51:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Body disembowlment. A tag team event.
Posted by Lucky 2004-05-31 2:04:33 AM||   2004-05-31 2:04:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 A tag team event.

It would have to be, wouldn't it? Five guys per team. Five against one, to even the odds.
Posted by Rafael 2004-05-31 2:20:07 AM||   2004-05-31 2:20:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 A toe tag team event
Posted by Zenster 2004-05-31 2:27:56 AM||   2004-05-31 2:27:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 400 meter car-bumper bodydraging.
Posted by Lucky 2004-05-31 1:24:35 PM||   2004-05-31 1:24:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 1)Motocross cross-country rally while trying to avoid hell-fire missiles

2)100 meter suicide-belt dash

3)Synchronized car swarming

4)400 meter passport relay

5)Arab Street Pentathalon:Angriest seething,Longest ullalation,Craziest Jewish Conspiracy rant,Loudest call to prayer,Best pose holding AK-47 while wearing face-concealing scarf-RPG may be substituted for AK-47 for greater degree of difficulty.

6)Rapid fire straight up with creativity points for chanting.

7)Hamas Biathalon:Assemble bomb from supplied components.Convince retarded teenager to wear bomb and approach security.

8)Javelin Throw-at running Nigerian Christians.

9)Weight-Lifting Mullah Jerk.Must lift Mullah above head and hold him up while Mullah makes call for Jihad

10)Bush Decathalon.Kill a terrorist by:Calling in AC-130,Calling in A-10,Remote piloting armed Predator,Programing Tomahawk cruise missile,Commanding an M-1,Hand grenade toss,Convince another country to join you,Swim underwater with explosives to place on Iranian speedboat,Rapid fire shooting w/M-16 at running targets,Night sniping w/Barrett rifle.

Posted by Stephen 2004-05-31 4:40:00 PM||   2004-05-31 4:40:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Eh, Steve!
Do you lose points in the Hamas Biathalon if you blow yourself up before finishing the bomb?
Posted by The Doctor 2004-05-31 5:02:57 PM||   2004-05-31 5:02:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Lol! Awesome! Mullah Jerk - redundant?
Posted by .com 2004-05-31 5:11:06 PM||   2004-05-31 5:11:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Mullah Jerk - isn't that redundant? :-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-05-31 5:42:52 PM||   2004-05-31 5:42:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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