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[subplotkudzu]

Great Britain claims 99 year lease on Olympic stadium section G rows 1-8!

More seriously, if the opening ceremonies were meant to be a presci of Chinese history, where were the Opium wars and the Cultural Revolution?

Comments

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

not history, pageantry - same dodge they used at Atlanta

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

Nonsense! They should have had a hundred actors dressed as British soliders run onto the stage, firing rifles into the dancing, smiling Chinese! Then dragged one out of every 10 people from the audience and forced them to wear signs saying that they were possessed by evil Cow Spirits!

Maybe they could have pulled Bush out as one of those, and then extended the issues to the present day by giving him huge wads of ghost money to symbolize American's Chinese debt! Yeah! None of this glossing over the 19th-20th century for us, dude!

[(Anonymous)]

If you want to symbolize China's 20th century history, you should have them field several dozen teams which spend all their time sabotaging each other rather than competing.