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Re: Olympic rings
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 203.96.101.15
Date: Sunday, September 17, 2000, at 13:41:25
In Reply To: Re: Olympics opening ceremony! posted by eric sleator on Sunday, September 17, 2000, at 13:27:48:

> > Those green guys were just bizarre. I loved the idea - there was a group representing each of the colours/world areas of the Olympic rings. The other groups did look sufficiently African, Asian, American and Oceanic (dig those Maori guys in tattoos and blue plastic, hehehe), but whoever designed the greenies obviously thought Europe is populated mainly by Martians from 1950s B movies.
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> > Brunnen-"and who am I to say it isn't"G
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> The colors of the rings represent the five areas of the world? I'd always been told that the five ring colors plus the white background were the most common flag colors of the world.
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> -eric "The good old red, white, and blue . . . and yellow and black and green" sleator
> Sun 17 Sep A.D. 2000

Yes, they represent that too, according to the TV commmentary we had here. Flag colours, plus continents or world areas. Black is Africa, red is the Americas, gold is Asia, blue is Oceania, and green is 1950s B movies...er, Europe.

Brunnen-"hey! our flag is the good old red, white and blue too!"G

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