----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Thorley" To: Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: Sydney Engineering Heart Attack <-- > This year, the start of the new Millennium, the Olympics are in Australia. > This is our moment to showcase to the world and to ourselves. Our history > is not the long, compared to some countries. Our history is not so well > known, often, even to ourselves. We don't gloat too much, but we are proud. > > We put on a display for the world to rejoice with us. The commencement of > 'The Games'. You need to be an Australian to understand our feeling of the > word 'Game'. We don't take these things too seriously. They are to us > "GAMES". As with all sport. > > The Olympic Flame has been touring our country for the last 3 months or so. > It has been specially designed to be both symbolic of Australia, and > technically advanced, by an Australian company. It has been through 10,000 > pairs of hands. The gas used is enviornmently safe and even the canister > that holds the gas is recyclable. The Flame went underwater on the Great > Barrier Reef. A special torch was constructed for the purpose, so as not to > emit pollutants that may harm the reef. > > SOGOC may have made a few stuff ups with tickets etc, but with so much > planning and consideration for our part of the planet, do you really think > that Cathy Freeman was ever in ANY danger while lighting the cauldron ? > Our business drive is not as entangled with sport as it is in other > countries, sure it exists, but let me tell you, if there was even a small > element of possible danger to Cathy or any member of the audience, a > different solution would have been found. And that is something we are very > good at, next time you have a tuff problem, give an Aussie a go at it mate, > she'll be right. > > I'm sad if you may find minor irregularities with the lighting of the flame, > and prompt people of your country to be cynical about such a beautiful > event, but I think it was wonderful, engineering glitches an all. If > anything I think it just makes it unique. Was it you that sold them the switch then? :-> . -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.