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Title: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: FatBloke on 27 July, 2012, 06:07:14 pm
My money is on Steve Redgrave!   :thumbsup:

If it's Seb Lord Coe he ought to be machine-gunned!!!
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Post by: welshwheels on 27 July, 2012, 06:12:40 pm
David Beckham with a flaming football he will chip in from 30 yards and miss and set fire to the fake grass  :o +agree that seb should be machine gunned if he lights it
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Post by: jimbhoy on 27 July, 2012, 06:15:40 pm
Vicky Pendelton-with her dad behind her shouting it should have been me there  :P
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Post by: eck on 27 July, 2012, 06:17:47 pm
My money is on Steve Redgrave!   :thumbsup:

If it's Seb Lord Coe he ought to be machine-gunned!!!

If Seb was a true gent, it would be Steve Ovett.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: Jaded on 27 July, 2012, 06:23:44 pm
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Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?  Started by FatBloke in The Pub

The clue is in the topic.

Unless you are talking about a flame started by someone else?  ;D

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 July, 2012, 06:25:28 pm
I think it'll be Steve Redgrave or Roger Bannister, but I think it should be Daley.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2012, 06:27:10 pm
The Grauniad has a piece showing that the odds are shortening on it being Brenda.

Of course, it could be her daughter, former horsewoman Anne Alice Elizabeth Louise Windsor.
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: Exit Stage Left on 27 July, 2012, 06:31:52 pm
It should be the only surviving British Gold Medallist from 1948.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179415/Britains-surviving-gold-medallist-1948-Games-recalls-different-event.html?ITO=1490
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: FatBloke on 27 July, 2012, 06:34:24 pm
I think it'll be Steve Redgrave or Roger Bannister, but I think it should be Daley.
Just because you fancy Tom Daley!!    ;) :P
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Post by: andygates on 27 July, 2012, 07:00:38 pm
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Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?  Started by FatBloke in The Pub

The clue is in the topic.

Unless you are talking about a flame started by someone else?  ;D

Oh, well played. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: Jaded on 27 July, 2012, 07:01:24 pm
It should be the only surviving British Gold Medallist from 1948.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179415/Britains-surviving-gold-medallist-1948-Games-recalls-different-event.html?ITO=1490

+1
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Post by: delthebike on 27 July, 2012, 07:02:25 pm
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Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?  Started by FatBloke in The Pub
The clue is in the topic.
Roger Daltery.
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Post by: teethgrinder on 27 July, 2012, 07:06:05 pm
It has to be this man! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw)
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Post by: Jurek on 27 July, 2012, 07:57:04 pm
Good call, TG  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 July, 2012, 08:03:25 pm
I think it'll be Steve Redgrave or Roger Bannister, but I think it should be Daley.
Just because you fancy Tom Daley!!    ;) :P
No, the other Daley.  :D

One of my colleagues said something the other day about fancying Tom Daley. All I could say was "but he's nine!" Nooooooooooooo.
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 July, 2012, 08:20:55 pm
I'm old enough to be his mother therefore he's too young. And I'd much rather have the other one. Although of course Bobb would always be my first choice.  O:-)
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Post by: Tewdric on 27 July, 2012, 08:24:51 pm
Phil the Greek?  It's Olympics innit!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 July, 2012, 08:26:18 pm
I'm old enough to be his mother therefore he's too young. And I'd much rather have the other one. Although of course Bobb would always be my first choice.  O:-)

Bobb lighting the Olympic flame... YESSS!
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 July, 2012, 08:29:38 pm
Yeah, he could just light a cigarette and flick the match into the cauldron, very casually.
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Post by: Torslanda on 27 July, 2012, 08:38:15 pm
Yeah, he could just light a cigarette and flick the match into the cauldron, very casually.


Has he been practising casually tossing a lit Zippo over his shoulder?
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Post by: Arch on 27 July, 2012, 08:39:35 pm
I think it'll be Steve Redgrave or Roger Bannister, but I think it should be Daley.

I read that as ' a dalek'.

Now, THERE'S an idea!
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 July, 2012, 08:42:18 pm
Has he been practising casually tossing a lit Zippo over his shoulder?
You know, when he said he was off to a party in Milton Keynes this weekend and wouldn't around for skyping, I believed him. But now, now I think he's doing something else!

I read that as ' a dalek'.

Now, THERE'S an idea!
Or the TARDIS could materialise next to the cauldron and the Doctor could nip out and then dematerialise away.
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: Arch on 27 July, 2012, 08:54:29 pm

I read that as ' a dalek'.

Now, THERE'S an idea!
Or the TARDIS could materialise next to the cauldron and the Doctor could nip out and then dematerialise away.

Now if they were getting David Tennant to light it, I'd be interested!
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: why1040 on 27 July, 2012, 08:59:07 pm
Someone on Radio 2 (I think it was, it might have been Magic, I was stuck in the car for long enough that I varied channels a bit) suggested that it ought to be Dr Who who lit the flame as it was him in one of the Dr Who episodes-otherwise there might be a rift in the time/space continuum  ;)
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Post by: Wobbly John on 27 July, 2012, 09:28:43 pm
I was about to suggest 007 would be lighting the flame, and then up he pops on the telly!  :o
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Post by: David Martin on 27 July, 2012, 10:06:02 pm
Bonkers!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 July, 2012, 10:37:01 pm
Someone on Radio 2 (I think it was, it might have been Magic, I was stuck in the car for long enough that I varied channels a bit) suggested that it ought to be Dr Who who lit the flame as it was him in one of the Dr Who episodes-otherwise there might be a rift in the time/space continuum  ;)

There were some Tardis noises earlier...
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Post by: Wobbly John on 27 July, 2012, 10:57:50 pm
I was about to suggest 007 would be lighting the flame, and then up he pops on the telly!  :o

The Beckham boat bit with the torch was very 007 - my money is still on Bond.  :smug:
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Post by: David Martin on 27 July, 2012, 11:12:53 pm
I can't see it being Beckham. He has already featured. Steve Redgrave? The last gold medallist alive from 1948?
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 July, 2012, 11:22:33 pm
I think it has to be the Doctor because it already happened in one of the David Tennant episodes.
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Post by: Regulator on 27 July, 2012, 11:37:57 pm
Nah - it's Margaret Thatcher....  ;D
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Post by: Torslanda on 28 July, 2012, 12:01:16 am
Nah - it's Margaret Thatcher....  ;D

Whoever it is she'll get the blame . . .
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: jogler on 28 July, 2012, 12:10:22 am
ask me again in a few minutes ;)
Title: Re: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: Regulator on 28 July, 2012, 12:38:52 am
That was shite!


I blame that Tory New Labour Anyone Who Will Have Him twat Coe.

Poor Brenda and Phil - having to sit throught that lot.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 July, 2012, 12:41:49 am
Is that shade your tongue has taken on known as Royal Brown, Reg?
Title: Who will be lighting the Olympic flame?
Post by: AndyK on 28 July, 2012, 12:55:05 am
 Can it, Tories. Your go was the Jubilee, and all you gave us was some old racists on a wet boat.