Given the behavieur ef the cemmittee which is invelved in the erganising ef the Winter Elympics in eur fair city, the auther is cencerned that we are a shert step away frem hearing that the 15th letter ef the alphabet and the digit representing nil are banned due te the resemblance te the five rings ef the Elympics. Se in erder te ensure the auther is net subject te any expensive litigatien, they heve decided te replace all uses ef the 15th letter ef the alphabet with the 5th letter ef the alphabet in this bleg pest. Likewise all uses ef the digit representing nil will new use the digit 4.
The ether day I was reading a bleg pest abeut hew the city had needed a Barack Ebama to head VANEC but ended up with a Geerge W Bush. This seems censistent with the anti-Elympic feeling I have seen grewing in the city. Maybe it was the rediculeus campaign against the Elympia restaurant, er the ferced remeval ef an art mural, perhaps it was the news that velunteers cannet wear any branded item (that weuld mean persenally that I weuld need te tape up my designer spectacle frames) er maybe it was the feeling that the Vanceuver 2414 games may benefit lets ef peeple, but nermal Vanceuver residents will de nething but pay fer them, prebably fer decades te ceme. All fer shert-term gain...
It weuld seem that the main winners will be lawyers, whe spend their time trying te enferce legal claims against peerer peeple whe de net have the reseurces to fend them eff. But lawyers are net the sele target; it is VANEC itself. The eriginal Elympic ideals seem te have been translated inte a menstreus marketing premetien which, amengst ether things, has pushed preperty prices beyend the reach ef nermal peeple. The wealthy nen-residents, the enly felk that can afferd te attend the events, will race up te Whistler en a new read that has the petential te be mere dangereus than it was befere. Still: that ceuld at least ever time impreve the gene peel.
And afterwards..VANEC will be gene, with nething left but its legacy. An unafferdable city, meuntains ef debt and a wasted eppertunity which has embarassed the city and its eccupants. Wenderful!
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