Her Name is Rio: The 2016 Olympic Games

[Donuthole]

Only 12 months! Let's get this thread started with a bang. Or a dump, as it were. In true South American fashion, Brazil's water ways--the same water ways in which many athletes will be competing--are essentially filled with raw sewage.

Despite decades of official pledges to clean up the mess, the stench of raw sewage still greets travelers touching down at Rio’s international airport. Prime beaches are deserted because the surf is thick with putrid sludge, and periodic die-offs leave the Olympic lake, Rodrigo de Freitas, littered with rotting fish.

“What you have there is basically raw sewage,” said John Griffith, a marine biologist at the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project. Griffith examined the protocols, methodology and results of the AP tests.


“It’s all the water from the toilets and the showers and whatever people put down their sinks, all mixed up, and it’s going out into the beach waters. Those kinds of things would be shut down immediately if found here,” he said, referring to the US.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jul/30/athletes-at-rio-olympics-to-compete-in-basically-raw-sewage-study-reveals

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Only 12 months! Let's get this thread started with a bang. Or a dump, as it were. In true South American fashion, Brazil's water ways--the same water ways in which many athletes will be competing--are essentially filled with raw sewage.



http://www.theguardian.com/sport/201...-study-reveals

Rotate the Olympics between LA, London, Barcelona (hell, just put it in Barcelona every time), Sydney and Tokyo. Maybe throw in Beijing too in a couple more decades. If the French want to jump in with Paris, we could add them also. Maybe the Canadians can pledge Montreal or Toronto, so we have two Western hemisphere cities.

[TripletDaddy]

im going to try to attend some of the games next summer. Should be fun. Dont plan on swimming in any sewage.

[Art Vandelay]

im going to try to attend some of the games next summer. Should be fun. Dont plan on swimming in any sewage.

what about dancing on the sand, or twisting through a dusty land?

[TripletDaddy]

what about dancing on the sand, or twisting through a dusty land?

wont dance on the sand but will definitely walk on it. cant say yet about the twisting part. i mostly plan on attending olympic sporting events and hanging out.

[Katy Lied]

You know that song is not about Brazil, right? It's about the Rio Grande river.

Signed,

Debbie Downer

[TripletDaddy]

You know that song is not about Brazil, right? It's about the Rio Grande river.

Signed,

Debbie Downer

I didnt know that

John Taylor takes credit for the title. "[It] was something I had thrown into the mix," he recalled in 2012. He was particularly fascinated with the idea of Brazil, and "Rio, to me, was shorthand for the truly foreign, the exotic, a cornucopia of earthly delights, a party that would never stop."

[Katy Lied]

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Just like that river twisting through a dusty land
And when she shines she really shows you all she can
Oh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande

I've seen you on the beach and I've seen you on TV
Two of a billion stars it means so much to me
Like a birthday or a pretty view
But then I'm sure that you know it's just for you

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Just like that river twisting through a dusty land
And when she shines she really shows you all she can
Oh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande

Hey now woo look at that did she nearly run you down
At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive
You make me feel alive, alive alive
I'll take my chance cause luck is on my side or something
I know what you're thinking I tell you something I know what you're thinking

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Just like that river twists across a dusty land
And when she shines she really shows you all she can
Oh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grand
Her name is Rio she don't need to understand
And I might find her if I'm looking like I can
Oh Rio, Rio hear them shout across the land
From mountains in the north down to the Rio Grande
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do

...

[TripletDaddy]

katy lied picking three lines vs a direct quote from a band member.

SMACKDOWN!!!!!

[falafel]

katy lied picking three lines vs a direct quote from a band member.

SMACKDOWN!!!!!

Your quote seems like parol evidence, while the plain language is clear and unambiguous. Judgment: KL.

[TripletDaddy]

Your quote seems like parol evidence, while the plain language is clear and unambiguous. Judgment: KL.

you are generally an idiot but for the sake of the discussion, even considering Katy Lied's usually misinformed contribution, what she is sharing supports the notion that the song mentions the Rio Grande, not that the song is about the Rio Grande. If anything, the lyrics as submitted seem to be about a woman. For the sake of chiasmus, i will close by repeating that you are generally an idiot!

[falafel]

you are generally an idiot but for the sake of the discussion, even considering Katy Lied's usually misinformed contribution, what she is sharing supports the notion that the song mentions the Rio Grande, not that the song is about the Rio Grande. If anything, the lyrics as submitted seem to be about a woman. For the sake of chiasmus, i will close by repeating that you are generally an idiot!

I at one of your jokes recently -- doesn't that buy me some good will!?

Regardless, it seems that you agree that the lyrics of the song itself have no reference to the city of Rio. A girl named Rio, a river named Rio, but not a city.

Parol evidence still applies!

[TripletDaddy]

I at one of your jokes recently -- doesn't that buy me some good will!?

Regardless, it seems that you agree that the lyrics of the song itself have no reference to the city of Rio. A girl named Rio, a river named Rio, but not a city.

Parol evidence still applies!

ok i will note the accrued goodwill

parol evidence doesnt even apply here anyway. this isn't a contract dispute.

[Joe Public]

DH, I am shocked:

http://www.cougarstadium.com/showthread.php?10534-Rio-2016&highlight=2016+Brazil

[Jeff Lebowski]

DH, I am shocked:

http://www.cougarstadium.com/showthr...ht=2016+Brazil

Not only that, "waterways" is one word, not two.