Fuck You VanOC

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The petty little dickheads running Vancouver's olympic organizing committee have done it again. They've adopted a phrase from Canada's national anthem... and copyrighted it!

Now, as far as I ever knew, you couldn't copyright ordinary words and phrases. But I haven't been particularly vigilant and it may be that Canada has gone down the same crazy road they have in the United States of Insanity in allowing you to copyright almost anything -- basmati rice, for instance (though that copyright was revoked when rice growers in India, among others, protested loud and long). Perhaps it was my threat to copyright long-chain hydrocarbons that gave them pause.

VanOC also copyrighted words such as Gold, Silver, Bronze, Winter, Olympics and so on, then tried to hammer businesses that used those terms in their names -- most notably Olympic Pizza, which has held the name for a great many more years than Premier Campbell has been sober. They failed, thank goodness.

Although I, for some odd reason, enjoy long track speed skating, I don't really like the Winter Olympics. They seem elitist to me.

Conflict of Interest Disclosure: If you want, you can dismiss this rant as sour grapes. I live in the False Creek area, near the Cambie St. Bridge, where they've been disrupting our lives for 2+ years building the Olympic Village (you can buy one of condos if you have a elite million bucks or so) and the subway to the airport (which was going to be almost all drilled underground until the contractors found more profit in a messy, disruptive cut and cover scheme).

Canada Line "Cut and Cover" - Photo by Jean Sorensen, a Vancouver freelance writer











So here's to you, you chickenshit cronies of the preem:

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Oh yeah... anybody want to diss the Winter Olympics? I have the domain 2010WinterGold.com for that purpose (not active yet).

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I could while away the hours
contemplatin' all my powers --
perhaps I should explain --
I'm on a presidential mission and
I'm hoping and I'm wishin'
"If I only had a brain."

Oh, I endured a lot to get here --
prison, torture and my pet fear --
let me explain again:
On my presidential expediton
I did too much ass kissin'
and I pulled a Cheney train

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to overlook my vicey versey
(and Iraq's just one I'll name)
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And the Halliburton billin'
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Interviews with dinosaurs

Walking with dinosaurs?
Spectacular but dangerous.
Talk with them them instead.

Interview with a Stegosaurus

Palaeontologist: You don’t have a reputation for being the brightest penny in the jar…

Stegosaurus: Huh?

Palaeontologist: You’re not a thinker. You’ve got a brain the size of a walnut.

Stegosaurus: Walnut? Is that good?

Palaeontologist: Let’s change the subject! You are one of the most recognizable of dinosaurs because of the two rows of alternating bony plates on your back and that tail full of long spikes.

Stegosaurus: Oh, yeah. It’s a hard world, ‘specially when Big Al, the Allosaurus, is around. You gotta be able to protect yourself. The smaller meat eaters are just a nuisance. I generally swat them one and keep on eating…. What’s alternating?

Palaeontologist: Tell me about your bony plates?

Stegosaurus: Well, the girls like them… or the guys… I’m not sure which I am, until I lay some eggs…or don’t. Ask that baby Stegosaurus that’s been following me. I think the plates also have something to do with heat.

Palaeontologist: You mean they radiate heat when you need to cool down and absorb heat when you need to warm up, especially first thing in the morning.

Stegosaurus: Sure. What you said.

Palaeontologist: Thanks for your time.

Interview with a Velociraptor

Paleontologist: Your leg bones and skull tell me you are a Velociraptor. Some see traces of fur or feathers pressed into the sandstone.

Velociraptor: So that’s what you call us: “Swift thief.” Fur would certainly come in handy on cold desert nights... feathers, too.

Paleontologist: These fossils tell even more about you: Your long, thin leg bones and jaw full of sharp teeth say you were a fast, fierce hunter. You could sprint at 40 kilometres an hour – faster than the world’s fastest man.

Velociraptor: Oh, I was fast! At full speed, I was like a hurricane. And when I joined my kin and hunted in a pack, no prey could escape us.

Paleontologist: Yes, we found the fossil remains of one of your kin with its 9 centimetre, scythe-like talon still embedded in the throat of a Protoceratops.

Velociraptor: They were tough to kill with that armoured crest, but tasty and fairly slow. Easy to catch. How did they both die?

Paleontologist: We think a sandstorm brought a dune crashing down on them, like a huge, breaking wave.

Velociraptor: Well, the edge of the desert was a fine place for hunting, but not without its dangers. Next time you’re there, imagine that I’m stalking you from the top of a dune!

Paleontologist: Yes, well…. We haven’t talked about your intelligence.

Velociraptor: Not to boast, but I was three times smarter than most other dinosaurs. In fact, I’m surprised to see we’ve been replaced by you, and that those dull crocodiles are still around after 200 million years.

Paleontologist: For all our brains, we may yet join you if we aren’t more careful about this planet.

Velociraptor: Yes, control the things you can and hope the things you can’t aren’t as catastrophic as the asteroids that wiped us out.

Paleontologist: Thank you.

Velociraptor: My pleasure…. See you in the desert!

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