I'm Canadian. I didn't find this event nor the ceremonies embarrassing at all.
I'm Canadian. I didn't find this event nor the ceremonies embarrassing at all.
adfgadfadfhb wrote:
Malmo man, usually I think you're great but that was just awful.
Okay how about this one?
Q. How do you spell 'adfgadfadfhb'?
A. eh?-d-f-g-eh?-d-f-eh?-d-f-h-b
Telling it like it was wrote:
I would however have liked to see some YOUNG CANADIAN musicians / artists.
I can understand the complaints about the Beavers and flying Moose but you're going to see established acts at these types of things and not unknown up and comers whether you like it or not. It's just the way it is.
GlobalView wrote:
Finally, I loved Neil Young and his performance of "Long May You Run", but the guy lives in California!
When I read of "surprise" guests, I said to my wife that Neil Young might be a choice but he's lived in the US for a long time as far as I knew.
Where's Gino Vanelli when you need him?
Surprise Guest: Neil Young, brilliant.
Secret guests: Giant Beavers, funny.
More on the giant beavers:
Wet Coast wrote:
The humour claim comes from the organizers. So how could you say they weren't done tongue-in-cheek, when the people putting it together said so? You are confused.
--AFTER the fact.
The thing about humor is, if people don't get it, like many Canadians I know, and some who have said so here, then you have FAILED.
There are rules and laws of humor, things that are known to work more often than not, if you read a few of the rare good books on humor you will learn things about how "set ups and repetition" in humor work. And knowing that you have to push over a certain line in order for something to be clearly funny.
The giant hockey players, funny? With gold medals added at the last minute? Funny? There is no attempt to be funny in that.
Now, a hockey player with a cigar in his mouth, a can of beer in his hand RIDING a giant beaver, coulda been funny.
OR, add to the conga line of inflaed cliches, some Giant BC BUD, or a giant Spliff, and a Giant Molson, or a giant slice of back bacon, coulda been funny.
They did not go far enough to be funny.
As to Arcade Fire, they are young, and established. Popular, but not an old fart like Neil Young.
And really, Leonard Cohen should have been included, maybe even Diana Krall...since she actually lives in BC.
It was the Geriatrics Ceremony.
After the fact, eh? Easy for you to say that after the fact too.
If it was a geriatrics ceremony then how do you explain your desire to have Leonard Cohen out there? He is 9 years older than Neil Young.
Hedley, Avril Lavigne and Nickleback, Buble et al are very young. How old is Avril? 21..22? Hedley - a group of 20somethings?
I don't get it.
Although I think Leonard Cohen would have been great no probs with that choice.
I don't need a lesson in humour, you are assumptive. You can take the few Canadians you know and go with that, I will go with the ones I know (being a Canuck and all). Almost everyone I know got a kick out of it. IN FACT. A German friend and I were running last night, he lived in the US for 8 years. He loved it.
Diana Krall is great - not so sure about jazz standards at a closing ceremonies though.
And your idea of drug smoking conga line...ok I would have laughed but your delivery falls a little short.
You don't have to push over a certain line to create humour. Subtleties, understatement, irony....perhaps you need F bombs like Chris Rock delivers to punctuate otherwise weak humour...
Wet Coast wrote:
you are assumptive.
A classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Go to the mirror, boy!
Tommy wrote:
Wet Coast wrote:you are assumptive.
A classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Go to the mirror, boy!