Nothinbutjoy said:

catpark said:

Actually that would of been funnier, I wished I had did that.

No it was for the big Dawn experience party next year, the biggest and sadly the last!

The last???

The last.

What do people think of the opening ceremony?

Love the opening!

Very english, dark, wild...love it!

Bond and the queen were so funny. Mr Bean rocked.

Till now i'm really enjoying it!

They've done a great job - the industrial drummers all that was amazing!

catpark said:

What do people think of the opening ceremony?

We haven't seen it yet. It airs locally on NBC at 7:30 est.

Haven't found a good link online yet.

Damn, there are some gorgeous people marching!

babynoz said:

catpark said:

What do people think of the opening ceremony?

We haven't seen it yet. It airs locally on NBC at 7:30 est.

Haven't found a good link online yet.

Warning: its one long ceremony

You may like the celebration of british music from the 60s and thoughout decades to the present, I thought that was pretty good.

When the athletes came out from all different countries, and obviously UK came out last anyway when they were parading with roar of cheers from the audience and the PM etc, they put the camera on the Queen she was looking and picking at her nails, Prince Phillip was read the brochure. I think they wanna go home.

On the one hand, I'm really bummed out that Chicago won't be hosting the 2016 Olympic games, but I'm psyched that Rio de Janeiro is hosting the games that year. It's about time that Africa and South America host the Olympic games.

I saw clips of the Parade of Nations during my local evening news, but here in the good ole USA, we'll be getting a tape delayed airing of the Opening Ceremonies. Anyone watching the games on the network channels will most likely see events which already happened and see sob stories of Olympic athletes who grew up being raised by wolves and had to travel 20 miles through two feet of snow up a mountain just to get to the training facility to practice their gymnastics/swimming/boxing/judo/etc. But the cable channels will probably air most of the live events.

catpark said:

babynoz said:

We haven't seen it yet. It airs locally on NBC at 7:30 est.

Haven't found a good link online yet.

Warning: its one long ceremony

You may like the celebration of british music from the 60s and thoughout decades to the present, I thought that was pretty good.

It's 7:30 here so it's on now...

I am sure it will be very interesting what with showcasing British history and all...I just wish NBC could have come up with better hosts than Brokaw and Costas,

Oh goody! Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera...

I LOVE the children singing...

I hope they show some medeival knights and jousting and stuff!

The UK team walking in to David Bowie's 'Heroes' was fantastic!!

Watched it on CTV station.

The James Bond stunt and Mr. Bean !!!

The ceremony was way tooooo long

Great seeing athletes from different countries. I bet a lot will seek political asylum.......

I could not be more proud of my country.

Fantastic.

Mary Poppins!

The giant baby scared me.

spookymuffin said:

I could not be more proud of my country.

Fantastic.

This!

Danny Boyle did a fantastic job.

No Hobbits? I wanted Hobbits...

babynoz said:

No Hobbits? I wanted Hobbits...

Hobbits aren't British though.

SUPRMAN said:

babynoz said:

No Hobbits? I wanted Hobbits...

Hobbits aren't British though.

The author is British...

Go away.

Mr. Bean!

lazycrockett said:

The giant baby scared me.

babynoz said:

SUPRMAN said:

Hobbits aren't British though.

The author is British...

Go away.

So where were Dumbledore and Potter?

Yay! The Parade of Nations. The one time every two years where people check their atlases or Wikipedia to find out where some of the other smaller nations are.

babynoz said:

Oh goody! Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera...

Their commentary was embarrassing at times.

The only time I geeked out during the opening ceremony was when Soul ll Soul's "Back to Life" played.

728huey said:

Yay! The Parade of Nations. The one time every two years where people check their atlases or Wikipedia to find out where some of the other smaller nations are.

I sure as hell had to go looking for Andorra....

I giggled at the Angolan costumes,

KemiVA said:

babynoz said:

Oh goody! Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera...

Their commentary was embarrassing at times.

Sure is. Did you hear when Meredith said that the children in the hospital scene didn't look sick?

babynoz said:

728huey said:

Yay! The Parade of Nations. The one time every two years where people check their atlases or Wikipedia to find out where some of the other smaller nations are.

I sure as hell had to go looking for Andorra....

I giggled at the Angolan costumes,

I think most people have issues identifying the west and central African Nations, the island nations off the west and east coast of Africa, the South Pacific island nations, and the Stans (Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgyzstan).