Question on this.

Didnt see the opening, sounds interesting. Bad the "body" searches
for pepsi seem absurd. I'm a coke fan, but give me a break, yes I
understand they payed millions, but what if it was pepsi, and I
cant take pepsi. I thought austrialla was a modern and free country,
yet they are being very much like stalin in thiis.
What do you think?

At 10:24 AM 9/22/2000, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Thorley" <mthorley@HOTMAIL.COM>
>To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 5:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [OT]: Sydney Engineering Heart Attack <--
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> > 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.
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>Was it you that sold them the switch then?
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