For the rest fo us who can't log into the New York Times:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16747032

I've got a fairly bleak and cynical outlook for this year's Olympics as it is, but surely "Isles of Wonder" is just about the most shit and unimaginative name they could have come up with?
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:23, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I'm getting some tickets for the water polo of Enzymes brother.

(Bazongaloid, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:26, Reply)

I had no idea Enzyme's brother was participating
Mind you, I had no idea Enzyme had a brother, either.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:27, Reply)

I still can't believe my song 'Sport is for Chutneys' was rejected.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:26, Reply)

I think they felt there might be some controversy
around the line imploring the "forrins" to "at least take one of these beastly golliwogs home in their suitcase"
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:29, Reply)

'They weren't invited, and neither were you
Get out of my England
You horrible Jew'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:32, Reply)

Personally I thought it had great chart potential.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:33, Reply)

Would have been a dead cert if the B-side had been your cover of "Springtime for Hitler"

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:35, Reply)

I know!
Those shortsighted cunts really missed a trick.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:35, Reply)

You should have said Britain, not England
Otherwise the colonials north of the border get pissy
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:35, Reply)

Yeah, but then he'd have to remove the middle-eight
about "those porridge-eating poofs in skirts."
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:36, Reply)

Ah. That must be where I went wrong.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:36, Reply)

Setting it to the tune of Deutschland Deutschland Uber Alles was a master stroke.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:36, Reply)

Actually it fits to 'Morning Has Broken', looking at it

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:38, Reply)

"about a land that has been poisoned by industrial legacy and the recovery of that land"
Everyone's jumping on my landfill mining bandwagon.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 27 Jan 2012, 14:35, Reply)