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To: upanddown who wrote (95263)2/12/2002 11:45:24 AM
From: kodiak_bull  Read Replies (1) of 95453
 
John,

Yes, the opening ceremonies always do well, because it drags in the non-fans and the spectacle-types (my wife, for example).

As for your calculation of "commercials that cover at least 20 minutes an hour. You then subtract 30 minutes of windbaggery from the announcers and you are lucky to see 10 minutes of Olympic action per hour of coverage."

Yes, yes, but . . . The "Olympic action" is invariably skewed toward American athletes. The short ski jump the other night spent almost as much time on two Americans who finished, like, 14th and 44th, as they did on 1,2,3.

The "spirit of internationalism" indeed. I actually heard the female snowboard winner parrot that annoying commercial phrase about this being "my house" ("my house, I make the rules, yada yada yada" crap) after her gold medal.

Kb
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