Boris Johnson - Ping Pong is coming home

[Uncle Spielberg]

Does this mans legendary status know no bounds. That speech was absolutely marvellous

 

[vegster]

Does this mans legendary status know no bounds. That speech was absolutely marvellous

Wait til he gets back to the office and he realises whats in the purse to pay for 2012 :yahoo:

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Well I thought he was marvellous.

 

[vegster]

Well I thought he was marvellous.

ok, so where does he fit in your top 50 Tory MP's who have been to Eton ?

38th ? between Pitt and Cameron ?

 

[Wozza]

Does this mans legendary status know no bounds. That speech was absolutely marvellous

Agreed. More like a best man's speech than an official speech, but bloody hilarious.

(But, f*** me, I'm agreeing with Spielberg. The Olympic spirit is doing some strange things...)

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Wait til he gets back to the office and he realises whats in the purse to pay for 2012 :yahoo:

Boris should be very happy. There won't be any more money coming from London council tax payers.

 

[vegster]

Boris should be very happy. There won't be any more money coming from London council tax payers.

So, How does he tart up London in 4 years time ( Inflation ? )for the world on a budget that is about 1/4 of what the Chinese spent.... oh, not forgetting the huge amount of willing non-union cheap labour available to the Chinese ?

 

[Icy Gull]

Did Boris make this announcement about his Thai girlfriend's return during his Olympic speech?

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

So, How does he tart up London in 4 years time ( Inflation ? )for the world on a budget that is about 1/4 of what the Chinese spent.... oh, not forgetting the huge amount of willing non-union cheap labour available to the Chinese ?

Because we aren't going to try to compete with the Chinese on precision event management. It's just not possible to match what a communist nation can achieve in terms of compliance (you say willing above, but they don't know any different from being told what to do). They forced 1 million cars off the road in the week leading up to the games. Could you imagine that happening any else apart from in China.

What we can offer is London itself. Full of characters, history and tradition. Our events we'll be equally well organised as the Chinese but it won't be the same sort of Olympics.

 

[Beach Hut]

Because we aren't going to try to compete with the Chinese on precision event management. It's just not possible to match what a communist nation can achieve in terms of compliance (you say willing above, but they don't know any different from being told what to do). They forced 1 million cars off the road in the week leading up to the games. Could you imagine that happening any else apart from in China.

What we can offer is London itself. Full of characters, history and tradition. Our events we'll be equally well organised as the Chinese but it won't be the same sort of Olympics.

This is the precise point, do you remember in '96 in Atlanta when the Aussies had their 10 minutes handover slot and bounced in on space hoppers like kangaroos and the whole world thought they were mad ?

How good were the Sydney Olympics ?

London will be superb but in a different way.

 

[Hunting 784561]

Bloody Marvelous !

Whiff Whaff or Ping Pong - The game has its origins in England as an after-dinner amusement for upper-class Victorians in the 1880s. Mimicking the game of tennis in an indoor environment, everyday objects were originally enlisted to act as the equipment.

A line of books would be the net, a rounded top of a Champagne cork or knot of string as the ball, and a cigar box lid as the racket.

It sounds like the sort of game Boris would have excelled at . I can see a few more golds on the horizon for 2012 - what what !

 

[Gully]

Did he really say that ping pong was coming home?

...if so, how about a remake of the football is coming home classic?

 

[vegster]

Because we aren't going to try to compete with the Chinese on precision event management. It's just not possible to match what a communist nation can achieve in terms of compliance (you say willing above, but they don't know any different from being told what to do). They forced 1 million cars off the road in the week leading up to the games. Could you imagine that happening any else apart from in China.

What we can offer is London itself. Full of characters, history and tradition. Our events we'll be equally well organised as the Chinese but it won't be the same sort of Olympics.

I forsee easy pickings for the muggers, overcrowded public transport, a huge influx of east european prostitutes and huge embarrasment for all of us

 

[Zesh Rehman]

Well I thought he was marvellous.

So did I, very funny man.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

He's brilliant. Churchillian in his effusiveness, and a good reference to the City of London police in 1908 and their gold medal in tug of war! He "mourns" the passing of the pancrateon - carrying and killing an ox!

"Ping pong was invented on the dining tables of England - the French looked at the dining table and saw an opportunity for dinner, we saw an opportunity to play whiff-whaff".

And yes, he did say "ping pong is coming home"...

 

[Manthorpee]

Does this mans legendary status know no bounds. That speech was absolutely marvellous

i didn't hear is speech what programe was it on?

 

[Gully]

...teletubbies!

 

[Giraffe]

It was top draw. made particulary better by seeing that boring Brown in the background being upstaged. Loved the comment about the French and the Dining Table. I love Boris.

 

[bigc]

It was top draw. made particulary better by seeing that boring Brown in the background being upstaged.

To be fair, anyone can upstage Brown before we call Bo-Jo Mr Wit himself.

 

[Brian Potter]

BBC NEWS | UK | Boris 'lost in admiration'

For those of you who missed the leg-end that is Boris
Personally, I loved the way he has reduced the whole business to that of an over-blown sports day. Watching Seb Coe holding his head in his hands behind Boris was a joy!