Gold Medal Craziness!

[casil403]

OMG it sounds like the Red Mile is going nuts right now with ------> :clap: :clap: :grouphug: :grouphug: :party: :party:
All I can hear is screaming, honking and cheering...I'll bet Vancouver is insane...Any other cities in Canada going crazy right now?
Reporting live 3 blocks from 17th and 4th in Calgary, this is casil! :D

[FredS]

Its also going nuts up in North Calgary ( Beddington ):1st:
Reporting live at 4:50 MST LOL

[Bambi]

It's CROSS CANADA CRAZINESS:clap::clap::clap::clap:

you should have seen us. At sandwiches so we could sit and watch the game. I almost had a heart attack when the U.S. tied it. Sidney was the hero of the game :clap:

[Mad Aussie]

It was a very good game! One of those 'shame someone had to lose' games. Foirst Ice Hockey game I've ever watched! Kind of like Curling really but with action, excitement, althelic ability, interest! :)

[Bambi]

It was a very good game! One of those 'shame someone had to lose' games. Foirst Ice Hockey game I've ever watched! Kind of like Curling really but with action, excitement, althelic ability, interest! :)

okay I agree, great game, well played on both sides and it could have gone either way!

but jeez, MA stopping dissing curling!!! :mad::yell: The women's and Men's gold medal games were awesome. And you can't look at the team members and say that they are not athletic. but I will agree that they don't have the rock hard bodies of say the snowboarders.

[Mad Aussie]

The http://www.mtbdirt.com.au/_themes/public/scripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/09fishing.gif is good around here!

[JAS_Photo]

And the Norwegian Curling Team has the pants! Ha! Ha! That game was awesome by the way!
Norwegian Curling Team's Fashion, Pants | Pictures, Photo (http://www.smh.com.au/sport/winter-olympics/pantsing-em-20100226-p6gq.html)

[Bambi]

The http://www.mtbdirt.com.au/_themes/public/scripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/09fishing.gif is good around here!


:confused::confused:

[Mad Aussie]

And the Norwegian Curling Team has the pants! Ha! Ha! That game was awesome by the way!
Norwegian Curling Team's Fashion, Pants | Pictures, Photo (http://www.smh.com.au/sport/winter-olympics/pantsing-em-20100226-p6gq.html)
You can't blame them. Those pants were the only thing offering any excitement in Curling ;)

[Mad Aussie]

:confused::confused:
It's a way to explain how easy it is to bait you Bambi ;)

[Bambi]

hey I'm always open for a good discussion or debate :) but your sentence had no subject so it confused me. Still does really.

[casil403]

Apparently those pants were/are up for auction to raise money for charity...they remind me of funky chef pants!
When I was in Banff I got to talking to the bar staff at the Maple Leaf restaurant and when I said that they started howling 'cuz they had a chef that wore exactly those! :laughing:

[JAS_Photo]

I was downtown today when the madness broke out. Here are a few pics on my way home. Oh yeah. I live on the infamous "Red Mile.":

Can you spot Casil's "Stranger" in the first shot?

Note the crocheted arm cozies on the bus stop bench?

Little flag. Big flag.

[JAS_Photo]

A few more:

[casil403]

Hey it's James!!!! Cool. :)

[Bambi]

these are great Jas. Love the last one of the car in front of the liquor sign! :laughing: that's a classic canadiana shot!

[JAS_Photo]

I added one more. These guys are all hanging out of their vehicle holding a flag.

[casil403]

LoL the Priceline Negotiator is on right now!!!:clap: :clap:
Dammit Jim! :laughing:

[Bambi]

LoL the Priceline Negotiator is on right now!!!:clap: :clap:
Dammit Jim! :laughing:

these closing ceremonies are awesome!!! I love how they fixed the Pillar and had it lit :laughing:

[Greg_Nuspel]

Managed to catch the end of the game when we stopped for lunch. I'm not a hockey fan but that was one exciting game.

[JAS_Photo]

I loved it where during Catherine O'Hara's "I'm Sorry" speech A Canadian won a gold medal and said. "I'm sorry. I'll have it bronzed!"

[Mad Aussie]

hey I'm always open for a good discussion or debate :) but your sentence had no subject so it confused me. Still does really.
Must be an Australian thing. Over here, it's common to go 'fishing' for a 'bite' by 'baiting' someone like I did with you. I caught a 5' 6" Canadian.
That's why I have a fishing animation in my emoticon collection for my cycling website.

[crystalb]

That was an interesting closing ceremonies............can anyone say 'giant mooseknuckle'?:headslap::D

[kurtdriver]

Nuts, downtown. Whoops, no subject, must be a Vancouver thing. Jacqueline's pictures look like Granville street, although there are a lot more people in downtown Vancouver right now. I work in the downtown eastside and I can report that people down there where sure in a celebratory mood. Kinda cool, with all the noise from the anti-olympic crowd to the effect that the Olympics are bad for the poor. The poor have enjoyed the party as much as everyone else. Many attended sporting events, and on Hastings st. this afternoon people were singing O Canada.

I motion we make MA an honorary Canadian. Any seconders?

[Mad Aussie]

I motion we make MA an honorary Canadian. Any seconders?
As long I don't have curl anything eh! :headslap:

[Marko]

definitely a fun olympic day! - Cool shots Jas

[casil403]

I have to say that last time I saw this much Canadian pride openly expressed coast to coast was when the Blue Jays won the World Series back in the early 90's. The Olympics for all it's faults did bring home warmth and sense of National pride..especially on the last day....and for that I applaud... :clap:
Loved the opening with the mime, the corrected pillar F-up and Katriana LeMay Doan...priceless and cheeky in a way only a Canadian could pull off!
PS...loved the Michael Buble cheesy (in a good way :)) Vegas meets Canadian gift shop show...the only thing in there missing were large maple syrup bottles rolled along the floor of BC place.:laughing:
Loved Burnaby boy Michael J Fox also...the only thing that would have finished it off is if the T-Hip did a set! :thumbup:

Is it just me or is Neil Young looking old? :shrug:

[casil403]

As long I don't have curl anything eh! :headslap:

I'm sorry we like curling here in Canada MA..Please forgive us as a nation...thanks! :laugh:

[Bambi]

As long I don't have curl anything eh! :headslap:

oh I am SO making you curl!