Friday, August 8, 2008

C, F, R, T, L...when are the Americans Entering the Stadium Again?

If you were watching the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, then you were probably as dumbfounded as me in trying to figure out the rhyme or reason for the order in which the countries entered the stadium.



After a little research while Maldives, Mali and Malta marched in their 8 athletes, I discovered that since China doesn't have an alphabet like the rest of the world, the countries were placed in order - lowest to highest - of the number of strokes necessary to make their Chinese character.



Makes sense, I guess. You'd think the IOC would have regulated this, but they're too busy figuring out how to give the games to the only place with worse air quality than Beijing - the planet of Venus.



My sister actually Googled the reason for the strange order of nations minutes before me, and she found a little different result than I did. Some egghead hacked the Wikipdia page for this and spread some of his ground-breaking world views that truly convey the Olympic spirit.
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The entry was promptly removed.

2 comments:

mattymatty said...

I have a fucking hairy ass snatch, so I should be able to edit that entry, but for some reason it doesn't seem to be working. Anyone know the phone number for I.T.?

Lori said...

haha.. "let me see yo titties bitch". Amazing. This hacker had the chance to relay a message to an unexpected audience and he chose "let me see yo titties" among other things. Excellent find.