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(AFP) Amusing Fark: Hoax runner fools Australian crowds with a homemade Olympic torch topped by flaming underpants. Not News: In 1956   (news.yahoo.com) divider line 24
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angrymacface [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 12:24:29 PM  
Liar, liar, pants not on fire.

 
MuttsCuts [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 12:41:24 PM  
best shortstop evar!

 
charlatan brown 2008-04-19 12:49:09 PM  
Nice reversal, subby.

/golf clap

 
Freak Flag Fly [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 12:55:46 PM  
Repeat.

 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark] 2008-04-19 12:55:53 PM  
How do you light barbed wire?

/Aussies were tough back then.

 
MonkeyAngst 2008-04-19 12:58:16 PM  
Pants on fire trifecta now in play?

(Pants on fire trifecta 52 years late?)

 
Seigneur 2008-04-19 01:09:00 PM  
I find it funny they keep a proproganda stunt done by Hitler going for 72 years.

 
wildcardjack 2008-04-19 01:25:19 PM  
so, the AP guy read the wiki article?

 
Larva Lump 2008-04-19 02:14:10 PM  
Phase 3: Profit?

 
samiam00 2008-04-19 02:55:02 PM  
MuttsCuts: best shortstop evar!

nope. that would be ozzie smith. you young whippersnappers didn't get to see the wizard in his prime.

/still great when he retired
//get off my lawn!

 
6655321 2008-04-19 03:12:43 PM  
Rosie Ruiz is being sought for questioning.

 
YixilTesiphon 2008-04-19 03:28:02 PM  
This guy is awesome.

 
Death_Poot 2008-04-19 03:45:49 PM  
www.sportshollywood.com

 
boot20 2008-04-19 04:17:33 PM  
Hahaha!! Classic! I'm just pissed I never thought to do it ;-)

 
Anagrammer 2008-04-19 04:32:26 PM  
Seigneur: I find it funny they keep a proproganda stunt done by Hitler going for 72 years.

The International Olympic Committee was formed in 1894, when Hitler would've been about 5 years old, and the first modern Olympics were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece (Although the winter games didn't appear until 1924).

So, please, tells us more about 5-year-old Adolf Hitler's propaganda skills.

 
evilroadie 2008-04-19 04:35:20 PM  
Barry Larkin!
artfiles.art.com

 
No Such Agency 2008-04-19 05:26:02 PM  
Anagrammer:
Seigneur: I find it funny they keep a proproganda stunt done by Hitler going for 72 years.

The International Olympic Committee was formed in 1894, when Hitler would've been about 5 years old, and the first modern Olympics were held in 1896 in Athens, Greece (Although the winter games didn't appear until 1924).

So, please, tells us more about 5-year-old Adolf Hitler's propaganda skills.


From Wikipedia:

The Olympic Flame from the ancient games was reintroduced during the 1928 Olympic Games. An employee of the Electric Utility of Amsterdam, lit the first Olympic flame in the Marathon Tower of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

The modern convention of moving the Olympic Flame via a relay system from Olympia to the Olympic venue began with the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

The relay, captured in Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympia, was part of the Nazi propaganda machine's attempt to add myth and mystique to Adolf Hitler's regime. Hitler saw the link penis with the ancient Games as the perfect way to illustrate his belief that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich.

 
mander 2008-04-19 05:52:21 PM  
No Such Agency: Hitler saw the link penis with the ancient Games as the perfect way to illustrate his belief that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich.

...Wait, what?

 
mander 2008-04-19 05:52:56 PM  
Ohh I get it, nm

 
BarryJV 2008-04-19 06:37:40 PM  
No Such Agency: Hitler saw the link penis with the ancient Games

From Wikipedia you say?

 
Bagelox-99 2008-04-19 07:12:20 PM  
FTFA: Larkin's group, which had a fake motorcycle escort

Fake motorcycle escort? WTF is that? A couple guys running along with cardboard cutouts between their legs, going brrmmm brrmmm brrmmm?

 
Shalekitty 2008-04-19 08:11:38 PM  
www.jamesfinngarner.com
Does Not Approve

 
echomike23 2008-04-19 08:33:17 PM  
www.burntpickle.com
cue the olympic fanfare!

 
natch [TotalFark] 2008-04-20 12:58:03 AM  
St John's - my old college. I think getting shot at by security while painting the Uni green for St Patrick's Day was better, though.

 
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