Foxtel is taking the piss:
Channel 500: Vancouver 2010 Preview
Tiffany Cherry & Matt Shirvington walk through our
sensational coverage of the upcoming Vancouver Olympic
Winter Games which starts February 13th 2010. The only
place to see the games in full is on FOXTEL and AUSTAR.
That's right: Channel 500. Foxtel has introduced a 24 hour advertisement for two weeks of Winter Olympics.
96 days to go!
Posted by: Tony | 09 November 2009 at 11:09
There are too many Winter Olympic sports that you could compete in dead.
1. Top of hill / ramp / incline
2. Go to bottom of hill / ramp / incline
3. Ta daa!
Surely that says something?
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 09 November 2009 at 12:12
That's why they have winter sports on ice. The dead bodies don't stink.
Posted by: Tony | 09 November 2009 at 12:39
I'd love to see the mega ski jump, "Weekend at Bernie's" style.
Posted by: Adsy | 10 November 2009 at 11:08
What about luge where, instead of a sled, the drivers drive a dead body.
PS: Who doesn't love saying luge? Luuuuuuuuggge.
Posted by: Tony | 10 November 2009 at 13:46
I'd love to see the mega ski jump, "Weekend at Bernie's" style.
Ski jump was definitely one of the events I was picturing.
Great minds.
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Luuuuuuuuggge and Giaan Roooooooney:
Best. Sporting. Nouns. Evah.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 10 November 2009 at 14:28
Three months of promo for two weeks. Does this mean Fox subscribers have to pay extra for the Winter Olympic channel? Good luck with that.
Could be the least watched channel since Aurora and/or the Mike Hammond "didn't you used to be famous?" help network.
Posted by: Adam 1.0 | 10 November 2009 at 15:26
I believe there are actually two Olympic channels already. The other one seems to be nonstop anime of the three local stand-ins for Syd, Ollie and Dickhead. They fall over in the snow and ice a lot.
Posted by: m0nty | 10 November 2009 at 15:53
What about luge where, instead of a sled, the drivers drive a dead body.
They already use a skeleton, so I think it's only right that the IOC introduces some cadaver action.
Hey, why no love for the skeleton? Anyone else notice that? It's all luuuuuugge and four-man bloody bobsleigh. If past Olympics are anything to go by you'll be lucky to catch 30 minutes of the always enthralling skeleton racing.
http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Sports/All-Sports/Bobsleigh/Skeleton/
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 11 November 2009 at 11:48
Well fuck me. The bobsleigh was invented by Bob Sleigh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobsleigh
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 11 November 2009 at 11:55
Yeah, right. And he smoked St Moritz.
Posted by: Tony | 11 November 2009 at 14:02
Do not question the veracity of The Wiki!
...Yeah, when the "text grab" came up on Google I was fully expecting it to be a The Onion article or a similar parody news site. So unless it's a Wikipedia culture jamming wag who added that bit for laughs... which, granted, does happen...
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 11 November 2009 at 14:30