So how can London better Beijing opening ceremony..

[TimberWolf]

London won't have medals. They discriminate. Everyone will get a gold medal, for taking part.

That's a great British idea. Everyone taking part gets a gold medal and the winner gets a gold* medal. We can also lower the height of the high jump and shorten the long-jump and 100 metres. This will produce higher standards of winning. I feel we are making some progress on making our hosting of the Olympics a true success and our chances of winning gold medals much improved. Even canoe man can have one for not coming back.

[Bob Dalek]

Is there a "Being fat, lazy, violent and knowledgeable about one's rights to the point of genius" event? We'd take gold for sure.

[Spacecadet]

London won't have medals. They discriminate. Everyone will get a gold sovereign, for taking part.

[Sysman]

London won't have medals. They discriminate. Everyone will get a gold sovereign, for taking part.

Except Gordon will have sold off the rest of the gold, so make that a gold plated sovereign.

[DS23]

we should be able to code a better firework display in 4 years time.

[Bob Dalek]

we should be able to code a better firework display in 4 years time.

If Bob Geldof's company is involved, it'll look like an Atari tennis game from the 70s, if the "River of Fire" Y2K yawn-inducing (yet expensive) pile of plop was anything to judge by.

[BrilloPad]

If Bob Geldof's company is involved, it'll look like an Atari tennis game from the 70s, if the "River of Fire" Y2K yawn-inducing (yet expensive) pile of plop was anything to judge by.

That River of Fire was incredible. It apparently did happen - but could not be seen!

Emporer's clothes?