# Good Luck, Vancouver **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806 "2010-02-13T02:07:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/21 "2010-02-13T03:13:56Z")
US team uniforms very ordinary - what is special? ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/22 "2010-02-13T03:16:35Z")
OMG - our team, we look like would-be RCMP Have to think about this look. ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/23 "2010-02-13T03:18:03Z")
Again, sorry for the consecutive posts. I am just so excited. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/24 "2010-02-13T03:19:11Z")
I must admit I got a bit sniffly there. I think it’s PMS. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/25 "2010-02-13T03:23:27Z")
All the athletes with iPhones and cel phone cameras and digital cameras! Nelly Furtado and Bryan Adams. Nelly is from Victoria. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/26 "2010-02-13T03:25:55Z")
Nellie looked and sounded good. If that was the “Vancouver” song - it was weak. Still think our “Neighbours of the World” was the best so far. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/27 "2010-02-13T03:36:54Z")
That’s a BIG bear. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/28 "2010-02-13T03:38:29Z")
Okay, that was pretty neat. The aurora effect, the ice to water… it’s quite astounding, really, the visual extravagence. I bet the people all “bundled up” must have been hot! ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/29 "2010-02-13T03:41:33Z")
Who will carry the torch in? ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/30 "2010-02-13T03:46:22Z")
I didn’t know Canada had a tradition of a devil fiddler– Oh! Loreena McKennitt! ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/31 "2010-02-13T03:48:27Z")
I think the NBC commentators said that the guy at the beginning was an athlete (snowboarder, maybe?). Didn’t catch his name. I thought the parade of nations was really fun to watch - not as long as the summer one, so it’s easier to keep it from being tedious - but the music and dancing really gave it a festive feel. Teared up when the Georgians came in. The pop music parts aren’t as impressive, though. (Nelly and Bryan were OK, but the rest - pretty ordinary). Maybe it’s just not my thing… The fiddlers are excellent, though. It’s a beautiful setting for the Olympics. Here’s hoping for successful Games. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/32 "2010-02-13T03:49:43Z")
Canadian Celtic _Punk_. I like it. I can’t keep still with this kind of music. ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/33 "2010-02-13T03:53:10Z")
OK, our madman (Ashley) has arrived…Good but not very West Coast. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/34 "2010-02-13T03:54:05Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > I didn’t know Canada had a tradition of a devil fiddler– Oh yeah. We’ve got fiddlers that would make Johnny lose that golden fiddle. Not to the Devil, but to a Canadian fiddler. Where the heck are my spoons? I should be playing along… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/35 "2010-02-13T04:00:26Z")
Not sure how the Joni Mitchell stuff fits. Maybe random Canadiana. ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/36 "2010-02-13T04:01:58Z")
What does a floating ragamuffin have to do with winter sports? ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/37 "2010-02-13T04:05:23Z")
According to the broadcasters…they’re doing tributes to various parts of Canada… ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/38 "2010-02-13T04:06:40Z")
Joni’s a prairie girl. That fellow who got to “fly”–man, that looked like fun! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/39 "2010-02-13T04:09:19Z")
I wasn’t impressed with the aerial ballet to Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now.” That song is not (or should not be) light and etherial; it is meant to be a little more hard-edged. It is the song of a woman who has indeed seen the good and bad in life; and who sings about how things that seem pleasant and innocent can (and often do) have a darker side. That’s not the impression I got from the presentation. ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806/40 "2010-02-13T04:09:24Z")
Get that Gardentraveler - but was supposed to be about winter not a prairie fall. W.O. Mitchell has better stuff about prairie winters to highlight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-luck-vancouver/528806.md?page=3)