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Re: Heritage embarrassments - gold medal

Aug 15, 2012, 07:32

tiompan wrote:

Sanctuary wrote:

drewbhoy wrote:

Sanctuary wrote:

VBB wrote:

Getting in the spirit for the Olympics, please offer your 3 most embarrassing heritage offerings. Five categories (please state which when entering).

Facilities.

Statements.

Reports/ publications.

Interpretation.

Anything goes (television, radio, shop goods, postcards - anything at all).

The closing ceremony for all the miming by the supposed cream of our singers! I cringed at the Spice Girls but was touched by the affection still shown toward John Lennon and Freddie Mercury who got the loudest cheers even though they've been dead for donkeys!

Liam was good and The Who were brill! And Lennon is a lovely surname :-)

Far too many long 'yawn' spots for my liking. Good lighting, costumes and fireworks but for me it came a VERY distant second to the opener.

No comparison ,apart from the athletes . maybe just me but was the segue from "wish you were here " to a Kesey style bus to "I am the walrus " a reference to an almost forgotten powerful influence on pop culture .

If I am itching to discuss this am I suffering from AESTHETE'S foot!?

:)

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