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Offline Motherland

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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2008, 04:00:39 PM »
Here's another nasty one; in school plays about Thanksgiving, Native Americans are regularly played by little white kids! This has gone to far!
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2008, 04:00:55 PM »
Quote from: JAGED on August 15, 2008, 03:54:23 PM
Sorry, one production published false information about their performers and the other didn't!

Apples <> Oranges

You didn't hear about the third cat from the left?

Both were broadway musicals.  The olympics are athletic competition.

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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2008, 04:04:44 PM »
Quote from: indy007 on August 15, 2008, 03:58:21 PM
I'm going to create a play about the American Revolution. It will be an epic production and show an authentic view of it that will stir your soul.

....but I'm going to use Nigerians to play all of the roles.
Something like Brits getting every other villain role in Hollywood, or foreigners having brit accents independent of their nationality, etc  :P 
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #18 on: August 15, 2008, 04:07:32 PM »
Quote from: indy007 on August 15, 2008, 03:58:21 PM
I'm going to create a play about the American Revolution. It will be an epic production and show an authentic view of it that will stir your soul.

....but I'm going to use Nigerians to play all of the roles.
At least one of them better be a gay Nigerian. And it wouldn't hurt to have one in a wheelchair either.
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #19 on: August 15, 2008, 04:12:42 PM »
Quote from: Holden McGroin on August 15, 2008, 04:00:55 PM
You didn't hear about the third cat from the left?

Both were broadway musicals.  The olympics are athletic competition.



Wrong again! One of the two NEVER performed on Broadway! It was performed at the... wait for it... the Olympics.  The Olympics, where athletes are expected to perform without cheating or performance enhancements. 

If one wants to enhance a non-athletic Olympic performance, one should be a little more up front about it because it will get leaked anyway.  Same as a cheating athlete.  This doesn't put the host country in a positive light, does it?
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #20 on: August 15, 2008, 04:14:04 PM »
Is the opening ceremony part of the competitions? :huh
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #21 on: August 15, 2008, 04:15:07 PM »
Quote from: Motherland on August 15, 2008, 04:14:04 PM
Is the opening ceremony part of the competitions? :huh

No, but it is part of the whole Olympic "experience."
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #22 on: August 15, 2008, 04:15:43 PM »
Quote from: JAGED on August 15, 2008, 04:12:42 PM
Wrong again! One of the two NEVER performed on Broadway! It was performed at the... wait for it... the Olympics.  The Olympics, where athletes are expected to perform without cheating or performance enhancements. 

That's the point!  You have it!  They were not athletes!  Hooray!  You got it! Congrats!
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #23 on: August 15, 2008, 04:17:26 PM »
Quote from: JAGED on August 15, 2008, 04:15:07 PM
No, but it is part of the whole Olympic "experience."

So are you going to drug test the hot dog vendor outside the bird's nest?
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #24 on: August 15, 2008, 04:18:30 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on August 15, 2008, 04:07:32 PM
At least one of them better be a gay Nigerian. And it wouldn't hurt to have one in a wheelchair either.

Uhm, of course? Who else would play a historically accurate George Washington? A white guy?  :lol
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #25 on: August 15, 2008, 04:20:28 PM »
Quote from: Holden McGroin on August 15, 2008, 04:15:43 PM
That's the point!  You have it!  They were not athletes!  Hooray!  You got it! Congrats!

I've had the point all along.  You seem to have missed it though.  Why go out of the way to try to pull the wool over the world's eyes by claiming that these kids were each from all of the 56 ethnic groups that represents China's populations, instead of saying they just represent them?  :aok
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #26 on: August 15, 2008, 04:22:00 PM »
Quote from: Holden McGroin on August 15, 2008, 04:17:26 PM
So are you going to drug test the hot dog vendor outside the bird's nest?

No, but I might test his "hot dogs" to make sure they are indeed "hot dogs!"  :D
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #27 on: August 15, 2008, 04:25:32 PM »
Quote from: JAGED on August 15, 2008, 04:15:07 PM
No, but it is part of the whole Olympic "experience."
Then why does it matter?
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #28 on: August 15, 2008, 04:27:21 PM »
Quote from: Motherland on August 15, 2008, 04:25:32 PM
Then why does it matter?

Because the whole official "Olympic Experience" should reflect integrity and honesty?  :cool:
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Re: More Olympic Shenanigans
« Reply #29 on: August 15, 2008, 05:02:05 PM »
Quote from: JAGED on August 15, 2008, 04:27:21 PM
Because the whole official "Olympic Experience" should reflect integrity and honesty?  :cool:
Why bother with the Olympics when I can find that here on the Forum? :lol
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