New Olympic Sport

[.m2]

"Find and Destroy the Olympic Torch"

Here's the concept. A couple of Chinese guys in track suits try to spirit the Olympic torch through a city, say San Francisco, while being pursued by saffron-robed monks, Pfish fans, and the usual suspects, all intent on tackling them and stealing the "sacred fire" . If they win, they go on to the next city. If they lose, they have to go back to Olympia Greece light the torch again and start all over. There are numerous product placement possibilities for interested advertisers.

[Wolfman]

"Sacred Fire"--sure. Remembering the Olympics in Montreal when rain put out the flame and a worker started it back up with his Bic lighter. Authorities later lit it "properly" from a flame they use as a back up--sure. If I'm not mistaken the whole pompous ceremonies of the Olympics began with Hitler's big show in Berlin in 1936.

[PSUFAN]

There are numerous product placement possibilities for interested advertisers.

Yep. Patchouli-soaked freaks who attack torchbearers are definitely in the market for windchimes. Good call, Toof.

[PSUFAN]

If I'm not mistaken the whole pompous ceremonies of the Olympics began with Hitler's big show in Berlin in 1936.

Why...those pompous, idolatrous fools! Can their devotion to hocus-pocus be believed?

Sin,

[indyfrisco]

During one incident in the 1956 Summer Games in Melbourne, nine Australian students, most notably Barry Larkin, staged a hoax during the relay when the torch entered Sydney. The students wanted to protest against what they saw as "Too much reverence," to the flame, considering the Nazi origins. Larkin pretended to be an Olympic athlete, carrying a fake torch made out of a burning pair of underpants and a plum pudding can on the end of a chair leg. He presented it to the mayor of Sydney, Pat Mills, and escaped before anyone realised he was an imposter.

He was an imposter at short, too.

[BSmack]

The reintroduction of the torch was in 1928, but the relay began with Hitler to use in propaganda films.

It does seem wierd to place such importance on what was essentially a tool for Nazi propaganda, it did give us moments like this.

It's hardly weird at all when you consider who was the dominant force in the IOC during the post war years. Avery Brundage may just be the biggest piece of Nazi enabling shit to ever occupy the office of IOC President. Which, considering the competition, is really saying something.

[.m2]

OMG! Olympic torch decides to defect!



"Hey, I have decided to defect from China and
seek political asylum here in the United States.
Hell, the people of San Francisco have put me up
in a hotel suite and have been waiting on me
hand and foot! I like it! Anyway, I really hate being
passed around from hand to hand like at a
Irie Lagos house party!"

[PSUFAN]

It might instead prefer an m2ool basement party, where you can get your perenium tongued down without too much fuss.

[Louis Cyphre]

"Find and Destroy the Olympic Torch"

Here's the concept. A couple of Chinese guys in track suits try to spirit the Olympic torch through a city, say San Francisco, while being pursued by saffron-robed monks, Pfish fans, and the usual suspects, all intent on tackling them and stealing the "sacred fire" . If they win, they go on to the next city. If they lose, they have to go back to Olympia Greece light the torch again and start all over. There are numerous product placement possibilities for interested advertisers.

I got a better one. The concept is very simple. The runners from every city try to light as many protesters as they can on fire, using the Olymic torch. The city that has the most "torched" protesters gets to host the Summer Olymic games in 2012.

[Uncle Fester]

For a fee, this guy will come to your house and take out a beehive.

Coolest torch lighting of all time:

[smackaholic]

Hey fes, how 'bout a new avatard. Wytch your face onto a picture of the pope. On second thought, no wytching is neccessary. Old benny is a dead ringer for fester already.