General Chat

Paul who? :-S

I enjoyed it :-D

I even thought Russell Brand did well even though I don't like him, arrogant...

I'll stop right there

Macca...... was he on??

Oh my gawd l don't like Russell Brand, but he was'nt too bad!!

Jude - you said "I didn't see Paul" - hence my question "Paul who?"

Paul Macrtney...are you being very rude to Paul??? lol ;-) ;-)

well which Paul were you talking about?

Loved the John Lennon image. I thought it was visually brilliant altogether.

Gwynne

Dunno which one were you thinking of??

R Rose ,I think the things wrapped in Newspaper were a Tribute to "Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch". :-S :-D :-D

I wonder if Prince Harry was as puzzled as I was when he was introduced as Prince Henry of Wales and this was also in sub titles at bottom of screen.

He was christened Harry.

Actually Prince Harry was actually christened Henry Charles Albert David Windsor.

But Charles and Diana said he'd be known as Harry.

Gwynne

I suppose it was inevitable that we'd all like different bits, we didn't like The Who at all, then didn't care for them a lot first time round. I was impressed that Gary Barlow put aside his own sadness to fulfil his commitment. Thought the Spice girls were not bad and it was different having them perform on taxi's.

I did see that they had such a short time to pull the show together that they were still rehearsing right up until it started. Loved Imagine and we actually thought Jessie J was OK with Queen.

Eric Idle certainly got the crowd going but then the impetus seemed to be lost a bit. But we thought it was a tremendous show and we too felt sad when the flame went out. Thought the Rio intro was a bit long and, according to our TV paper they ran over half an hour altogether.

It was fun, it was eccentric and it was very British.

Maybe Harry had been celebrating a little too well and was hung over. I assume William was on duty, I don't think he would have expected special privileges to be allowed to go. Princess Anne was there.

Merlin I did manage to read some of the 'newspapers' as the camera's panned...seems they were mainly quotes from poets and literary giants, one I did especially note was

"when a man is tired of London he is tired of life" Samuel Johnson, very apt :-D

edited! lol didn't notice I had put an 'm' at the end of London :-|

At one stage the cpmmentator said something about passing from monochrome to a world of colour (or something like that) We assumed that the newspapers represented black and white, movies, TV etc.

The roadsweeper was symbolic sweeping away the 2012 games ready for Rio.


Do you realise, by the time we all explain the bits we understood we''ll get it all :-D

I've recorded it and have seen the majority but can someone tell me - was Paul McCartney performing? I use the word in it's loosest sense you understand :-D

No Ann Macca was NOT "performing" either singing or anywhere to be seen :-D

praise the Lord!!!

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole evening.The Who and Annie Lennox (great)
I think we as a nation should be damn proud of all the organizers,volunteers etc for making both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies a great success.Obviously not all of it was everyone's cup of tea,but all in all a Total Success.Big Pat on the back for GB
We always put ourselves down ,and have a gripe and moan .But I think we have come up trumps this year :-D :-D .The Jubilee and the Olympics.

I got an email from Boris today, thanking me and other Ambassadors for our hard work :-D

The whole thing was wonderful, from the beginning to the end, The training started last year for the work we did. It was really well organised too :-D

Lynda .Were you a Volunteer? I take my hat off to you :-D :-D Without all the volunteers it could not have happened.