After the first forty minutes or so of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, as we plodded through the world alphabetically, the barges carrying the teams had finally got to Djibouti – or was it Eritrea? Could we really keep going with this for four hours? The only matters of very mild interest had been why was Australia skipped over and how many Third World countries have scarily commie flags.
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