…and a cast of thousands

memiki wrote:

Hi Alan -- I never met an Australian I didn't like....

Cheers, Miki, USA

You're not an England cricket supporter then!

On Aug 25, 4:55*am, Icono Clast wrote:
[Please note cross-posts.]

Move over, Busby Berekely and Cecil B. de Mille for Zhang Yimou who
has surpassed your vision and casts of thousands. I think the combined
opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics are a show that
won't be surpassed during the lifetime of anyone living today. I
further believe that English needs to steal a new word to describe
what we saw.

I have prepared a an adjusted ranking of the top 23 medal-winning
countries that might be available this time tomorrow. Jamaica is
Number One, the USA 19, and China last.

Question for Ike -- Why do you cross post? Does it serve a special
purpose other than saving you time? Methinks, unless my recollection
is wrong, in the recent past you are the only, or one of the few,
regular r.a.d contributor who so does.

Miki

On Aug 25, 1:07*pm, Mike O'Sullivan wrote:
memiki wrote:

Hi Alan -- I never met an Australian I didn't like....

Cheers, Miki, USA

You're not an England cricket supporter then!

Not exactly ......but I understand when an emotional fan is driven
to physical expression.....been there......done that! NBA Lakers vs
Celtics -- somewhere in the eighties!

Miki

On Aug 25, 4:55 am, Icono Clast wrote:
[Please note cross-posts.]
I have prepared a an adjusted ranking of the top 23 medal-winning
countries that might be available this time tomorrow. Jamaica is
Number One, the USA 19, and China last.

http://geocities.com/iconoc/Articles/Olymp08.pdf

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:07:13 -0700 (PDT), Icono Clast
wrote:

On Aug 25, 4:55 am, Icono Clast wrote:
[Please note cross-posts.]
I have prepared a an adjusted ranking of the top 23 medal-winning
countries that might be available this time tomorrow. Jamaica is
Number One, the USA 19, and China last.

http://geocities.com/iconoc/Articles/Olymp08.pdf

Considering that I don't particularly want to live in the
Caribbean, and looking at #2, I think it's a great way of
listing the results:-)


Cheers, Alan, Australia
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"Alan S" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:07:13 -0700 (PDT), Icono Clast
wrote:

On Aug 25, 4:55 am, Icono Clast wrote:
[Please note cross-posts.]
I have prepared a an adjusted ranking of the top 23 medal-winning
countries that might be available this time tomorrow. Jamaica is
Number One, the USA 19, and China last.

http://geocities.com/iconoc/Articles/Olymp08.pdf

Considering that I don't particularly want to live in the
Caribbean, and looking at #2, I think it's a great way of
listing the results:-)


What surprised me looking at medals won v population statistics, was that
Pakistan (who are quite a "sporty" nation - cricket, squash, hockey, etc.)
won no medals whatsoever.

Gerry

"Alan S" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:07:13 -0700 (PDT), Icono Clast
wrote:

On Aug 25, 4:55 am, Icono Clast wrote:
[Please note cross-posts.]
I have prepared a an adjusted ranking of the top 23 medal-winning
countries that might be available this time tomorrow. Jamaica is
Number One, the USA 19, and China last.

http://geocities.com/iconoc/Articles/Olymp08.pdf

Considering that I don't particularly want to live in the
Caribbean, and looking at #2, I think it's a great way of
listing the results:-)


What surprised me looking at medals won v population statistics, was that
Pakistan (who are quite a "sporty" nation - cricket, squash, hockey, etc.)
with a poulation fast approaching 170 million,
won no medals whatsoever.

Gerry

On 8/25/2008 5:07 PM Icono Clast ignored two million years of human
evolution to write:

On Aug 25, 4:55 am, Icono Clast wrote:
[Please note cross-posts.]
I have prepared a an adjusted ranking of the top 23 medal-winning
countries that might be available this time tomorrow. Jamaica is
Number One, the USA 19, and China last.

http://geocities.com/iconoc/Articles/Olymp08.pdf

You're a ****ing loon. Not that this is any surprise, given
your lame-brained self-serving predilection for off-topic spam.

On Aug 25, 9:15*pm, "Gerald Oliver Swift" wrote:
"Alan S" wrote in message

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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:07:13 -0700 (PDT), Icono Clast
wrote:

On Aug 25, 4:55 am, Icono Clast wrote:
[Please note cross-posts.]
I have prepared a an adjusted ranking of the top 23 medal-winning
countries that might be available this time tomorrow. Jamaica is
Number One, the USA 19, and China last.

http://geocities.com/iconoc/Articles/Olymp08.pdf

Considering that I don't particularly want to live in the
Caribbean, and looking at #2, I think it's a great way of
listing the results:-)

What surprised me looking at medals won v population statistics, was that
Pakistan (who are quite a "sporty" nation - cricket, squash, hockey, etc.)
won no medals whatsoever.

Gerry

Only field hockey is in the Olympics. So only one sport for them.
And they are in some kind of war, I hear.

"Icono Clast" wrote in message
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I have prepared a an adjusted ranking of the top 23 medal-winning
countries that might be available this time tomorrow. Jamaica is
Number One, the USA 19, and China last.

Except that doing your rating per capita handicaps any large Country. That
would only be fair IF we could send a far larger team that was a per capita
percentage comparable to the other Countries, but it isn't. Our team would
have to be 100 times the size of Jamaica's to start out comparably, but
Jamaica was allowed to field the same size teams as the US.