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Re: The real Olympics
At 12:50 PM 7/3/2008, Gene Spafford wrote:
<http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/sailing/story/2008/07/01/f-olympics-sailing-venue.html>http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/sailing/story/2008/07/01/f-olympics-sailing-venue.html
Now they have algae blooms from water pollution. Runners not
competing because the air pollution is so bad. Drought in some
places because the only remaining unpolluted water is being diverted
for the Olympics. Flooding. Earthquakes. Mass arrests of
demonstrators. Crackdowns on free speech. And probably free lead
paint with every souvenir.
Sounds like the real Olympic competition is to survive the experience!
According to an article in Slate, there's apparently about a 50%
chance of a "plague" of locusts during the Beijing Games:
http://www.slate.com/id/2194608/pagenum/2/
(That's the second page; locusts are second item from the bottom.)
Normally, I don't care about the Olympics and actively avoid TV
coverage of them. But if there's going to be footage of track runners
racing through clouds of locusts, count me in...
Cheers,
LRC
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