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>>>>Press are reporting that The Who and McCartney will be playing at the closing ceremony so I'll probably mute that bit. Maybe put on a bit of Elgar instead..
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>>>Agreed -- geezer alert. I am surprised anyone would put The Who (what's left of them) on TV ever again after their atrocious Super Bowl halftime act.
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>>I was thinking the same thing. That performance ( I think I said so here at the time ) made me embarrassed to have lived past 30 <s>
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>The irony is that one of Pete's most well known lyrics is "Hope I die before I get old." Maybe that's exactly what you meant.
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>Have you watched any of the BMX? That is a pretty wild event, sort of a cross between cycling sprints and rollerball.
Have not watch much olympics at all - US-Turkey women's volleyball (and will catch US Brazil today ) , Pastorius, and bits and pieces of other stuff.
But BMX sounds like fun. i will see if I can catch some on replays or internet
And yeah that was the Townshend line I was thinking of - that and the concept of "my generation" ) Fortunately Mick can still go out and score one for the geezers. His comic turn on SNL on the season finale was classic.
If you ended up getting HBO and have access to HBOGO on the web definitely catch up with The Newsroom. Trust me you'll love it.
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