HeyBub wrote:

terry wrote:
Completely off topic I know but just admiring the various
technicalities and timing control involved in the closing ceremonies
of the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing! Sort of interesting to any 'do
it your selfer' to wonder how the various effects achieved!

Yes, yes, I know got a dozen thing to do and it's a nice day, again,
outside, but hard to not watch this most impressive and
international event.

Started watching quite by chance after flipping on the TV around
9.00 AM local time, that's about 7.30 AM Eastern time. Been
watching now, live, on various Canadian Channels. In both English
and French for over 90 minutes. But not on any of the US channels
we also receive?

Wow! Right now it's at the stage of introducing the next city to
host the games; London.

Also belatedly recalling seeing some events of the 1948 London
Olympics on black-white British TV back then, as a teenager! Quite
an achievement for Britain to host that first post-war Olympics in a
ravaged, bombed out and heavily rationed post-war Europe; only three
years after the end of hostilities.

By contrast when I first went away from home, to work in 1953, I
took my Rationing Book which my lodgings landlady would use to buy
certain foods etc. And THAT was eight years after the end of the
war.

Also a post script": A genuine thank you USA for all the support for
Britain even before Pearl Harbour!


Olympics is some kind of sports gathering, right?

Sports -- that's where a bunch of guys stand in a field and play with
their balls, right?

--
Steve Bell
New Life Home Improvement
Arlington, TX