Sunday, April 27, 2008
An Olympic Hero
Browsing idly through stuff on the 1908 London Olympics (budget £15,000, profit in excess of £7,000), I came across this fine fellow - the kind of Olympic hero we can all relate to. Sadly, the running deer events were not as exciting as they sound - rather than release wild deer, they dragged a deer-shaped target at speed along a line 110 yards from the guns. For the 2012 Games this could be adapted, with targets representing... Well, what? Any ideas (apart from Ken)?
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
They could use government performance targets, the teachers, doctors and police have been unable to hit any of them yet so, give the Olympians a shot.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, one of the old Swedish kings lived on the coast near Gotenberg, I think it was at Sula, (may be the wrong spelling) he was wheelchair bound so his serfs used to herd the odd elk past, for him to shoot at.