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2008-04-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-24 03:45|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The Olympics is a international carnival side show owed and operated by a cartel of self important elitist who bamboozle the masses with flash and show using the athletes as nothing more than sock puppets to make a living off of. Hype, hype, hype.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-24 08:57|| 2008-04-24 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Sadly, ever since the cold war ended, the Olympics have simply held no interest for me at all. Now that I don't watch TV anymore either, they matter even less.

Besides being nothing more than a venue for pro's now, far too many of the 'sports' are total bunk and silliness. I'm sorry but snow boarding and freestyle skiing do not qualify in my mind as olympic sports.

Today more than ever, the olympics remind me nothing more than of Tom Sullivan's "The Mickey Mouse Olympics" Not for the cold war aspects but for the silliness of bio-engineered athletes and a venue that has lost all sense of real purpose.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2008-04-24 09:21|| 2008-04-24 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Olympic TV is great because it doesn't bother to show much competition, but lots of human interest stories. Like the barefoot dancing champion who is trying to win a medal for her great grandmother's third cousin by a second marriage, who died in 1954. I get all choked up just writing about it. NOT!!!

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-24 10:25|| 2008-04-24 10:25|| Front Page Top

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