If you were among the twenty-seven million UK kin who watched the Olympic Opening Ceremony on Friday, then you would have seen Danny Boyle's sensational celebration that suggests that Britannia does indeed rule (in the sense that we're awesome that is, and not, as it used to mean, that we dominate the world. No, if that was the case, the athletes' parade would have been a whole lot shorter).
Anyway, like any creative, Boyle came up with more ideas than he had time for. Consequently, some quintessentially British bits didn't make the final cut. Luckily though, I think I have a pretty good idea of what might have been in those deleted scenes...
-Barn owls on a shed.
-Stephen Fry talking. Don't know what about, but he could read Hugh Laurie's IMDB credits and people would be happy to listen.
-Attempt to break the world record for longest ever queue.
-Food fight between those who insist it's pronounced 's-con' and those who think it's 'sc-own'.
-Morris dance on the Round Table.
-Quick break for pie and cider.
-Synchronised library closing.
-A tribute to dogging.
After all, what could be more British than those things? Come on Mr Boyle, release an extended edition of the show, you know you want to. It'll guarantee you a knighthood AND it will be a good way to stick two fingers up to Mitt Romney. Everybody wins (which is more than you can say of the Games).
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