Comments on: Death by a thousand volunteers

By: dave

dave — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:07:25 +0000

:-)

Yes Nic, I pointed this out (and the Ancient Games as well), but the volunteer was quite insistent. To be fair, she was very keen to assist.

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:01:05 +0000

Back to dole diary/insignificance for some. “The bowls club, bingo and ‘hello dear’,please mum”.
Those annoying volunteers!

Tis Ron Walker we should all salute. A selfless man and no dispute.

( allright,will give up on bad attempts at poetry, voluntarily)

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:56:09 +0000

Yes Dave,

As I recall, that 1896 Olympics was Greece’s very first wasn’t it?

By: dave

dave — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:30:05 +0000

I recall asking a volunteer in Sydney as to where the ‘Athens’ meeting spot was (the meeting spots were named after each of the previous host cities), as it did not appear to be located next to Paris. The volunteer very confidently informed me that this was because Athens hadn’t hosted the Olympics before: it was to be their first time in 2004. She knew this because she had Greek ancestry, see.

By: Rafe Champion

Rafe Champion — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:24:34 +0000

Nicholas, your volunteers sound a bit like the four boy scouts who each wanted a bob for helping an old lady to cross the road on “bob a job” day.
“How come it took four of you?”
“She didn’t want to go”.

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:12:18 +0000

The real task starts now. Rounding up all the volunteers, surgically removing their smurf outfits, deprogramming and releasing ‘em back into the wild.

This could take years.

Although I can see RAAF C-130s airdropping ‘em over Dehli in 2010…unless the Indians play nice.