Comments on: Closing Ceremonial http://virtualstoa.net/2008/08/24/closing-ceremonial/ Chris Brooke's Weblog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:20:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: josh http://virtualstoa.net/2008/08/24/closing-ceremonial/comment-page-1/#comment-309870 josh Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:04:12 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/08/24/closing-ceremonial/#comment-309870 Speaking of British icons at the closing ceremony: watching Boris Johnson trying to project dignity as the representative of London was for me a great, if perhaps perverse, joy. (He was, however, disappointingly un-shaggy by Bojo standards). Speaking of British icons at the closing ceremony: watching Boris Johnson trying to project dignity as the representative of London was for me a great, if perhaps perverse, joy. (He was, however, disappointingly un-shaggy by Bojo standards).

]]> By: clicheguevara http://virtualstoa.net/2008/08/24/closing-ceremonial/comment-page-1/#comment-308526 clicheguevara Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:27:31 +0000 http://virtualstoa.net/2008/08/24/closing-ceremonial/#comment-308526 "But if they wanted British icons, I think lots and lots of Daleks would have been even more fun, although I admit that Dalek values are perhaps not entirely in tune with those professed by the International Olympic Committee (or Gordon Brown)." Then again, in the final episode of last series when Davros wanted to detonate a reality bomb thus ending all of creation except for a little pocket of daleks, this was perhaps not disimilar to Gordon's commitment to decimating the Labour Party's hopes for unity and future electoral success within the next generation so as to give himself two more years in power? “But if they wanted British icons, I think lots and lots of Daleks would have been even more fun, although I admit that Dalek values are perhaps not entirely in tune with those professed by the International Olympic Committee (or Gordon Brown).”

Then again, in the final episode of last series when Davros wanted to detonate a reality bomb thus ending all of creation except for a little pocket of daleks, this was perhaps not disimilar to Gordon’s commitment to decimating the Labour Party’s hopes for unity and future electoral success within the next generation so as to give himself two more years in power?

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