tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735703203322834001.post2349843251524511046..comments2024-01-24T22:26:57.964-08:00Comments on Waterborne - A Live-Aboard Blog: ODDS 'n' SODS - Nov.1"Skipper"http://www.blogger.com/profile/12591196032969738667noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735703203322834001.post-34704283300238848012009-11-01T23:27:43.000-08:002009-11-01T23:27:43.000-08:00Julie is right..the runner can BUY the torch for t...Julie is right..the runner can BUY the torch for the amount Julie mentioned. A friend talked to one of the torch carriers and got this first hand.<br />My granddaughter sang in the school choir that welcomed the torch carrier into Cowichan Bay...Lordy Lordy, she was 'over the moon' with excitement..Gordie handed out Olympic pins (free!!) to each child..she got two more for HER two brothers! no grass growing under that girl's feet.<br />When I heard that FEMALE ski jumpers weren't allowed/accepted for the Olympics...grrrr... 10 steps forward and 100 steps back...<br />BUT I'm so proud of Marilyn being a volunteer in Whistler..way to go!Esther V.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10933207363444441498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735703203322834001.post-74123592161831164852009-11-01T11:18:58.869-08:002009-11-01T11:18:58.869-08:00According to this CTV Olympics report there are &q...According to <a href="http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=17738.html" rel="nofollow">this CTV Olympics report</a> there are "12,000-plus Olympic and Paralympic torches" being made and "VANOC says people involved in the relay will also be able to buy the torches for $349 - plus the applicable provincial sales tax."Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11132257039044606569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735703203322834001.post-34871477854870064272009-11-01T09:55:42.938-08:002009-11-01T09:55:42.938-08:00I thought the exact same thing about the multiple ...I thought the exact same thing about the multiple torches, and also feel your ambivalence about the whole thing. They do get to keep the torches, but that to me just adds to the whole contrived and commercial aspect of it. To me it would seem more special to have a different token of the run, and just the one symbolic torch.<br /><br />Up here there is a big to-do, as we are the last big stop on the island. We will watch the torch run, but not go downtown. Too commercial for us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735703203322834001.post-91091679600685122532009-11-01T07:15:09.802-08:002009-11-01T07:15:09.802-08:00Perhaps the runners get to keep the torch they car...Perhaps the runners get to keep the torch they carried? That would be just too cool!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com