Olympic Opening Ceremony

@rogue trader wrote:

maybe its my mind,but those 2 villages in norfolk, STIFFken and COCKthorpe :D

Not sure what you mean, cosy.

Stiffkey and Cockthorpe are two villages near one another – really. Google map it.

and the vicar really was defrocked for attending nude revues at the Windmill Theatre during the war. He just couldn’t keep away from them.

All very English.

@panda12 wrote:

@wordsworth60 wrote:

@Sgt Pepper wrote:

. . . Oh and btw will there be beach volleyball again this time? [/color] :) [/b]

Hell yeah!

Now if we can get the synchronised swimmers to do the beach volley ball . . . . . Man that game could do with some curves . . . .

You’re living in Cloud Cuckoo Land. No female athletes have curves. :D

However, I heard Clarrisa Dickson Wright will be appearing as the quintessential farmer’s wife in the opening ceremony:

Now that’s what Oi calls a real wumn!

My only problem with this is the majority of the olympic games isn’t being held in said “green and pleasant land” Yes there will be a few that touch on it in Weymouth, but the majority of people are merely going to see our not so green and pleasant London. So in that case it will appear to any visitors to the stadiums a false representation to a degree. But i’m glad to say it is far from a false representation of many of our rural areas.

@panda12 wrote:

Surely rural areas in this country are just like rural areas in other countries but without the cricket?

Nooo..we live in a very varied countryside. Go to the Northumberland coast, or the fens, the rich countryside around Worcestershire, the mountain passes north of Stirling……and compare with the French countryside around Poitiers, or Burgundy….

the only trouble is that hardly anybody, sometimes nobody lives there. Soince about 1880, most peeps ( :wink: @anc) live in the big conurbations, and the rest in towns.

@rogue trader wrote:

maybe its my mind,but those 2 villages in norfolk, STIFFken and COCKthorpe :D

Count yourselfs lucky, in Wexford theres a place called Bâstardstown and just up the road is Horetown.