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CaliforniaMama

07-31-2012 10:03 AM

July 31, 2012 - The Summer Olympics Grand Opening

It is the Grand Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics and who should make a Grand Entrance?

http://cellar.org/2012/olympic-ceremony-3-a.jpg

Why Mary Poppins, of course!!

http://cellar.org/2012/queen-bond3--a.jpg

Oh, wait. Here comes the QUEEN!!!!!

The Queen parachuted in with Daniel Craig as James Bond in tribute to his James Bond series.

via Hello! and more.

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In reality the parachutists were actually Gary Connery, playing Her Majesty, and Mark Sutton, in the role of Bond.

Trilby

08-01-2012 07:19 AM

WHAT?!

That wasn't the REAL Queen?

Now I am full of disappoint.

DanaC

08-01-2012 07:20 AM

It was up until the para jump :P

And her corgis too.

DanaC

08-01-2012 07:21 AM

Props to Danny Boyle for even considering asking her Maj to do something like that.

Hard to imagine many heads of state who'd be up for that.

Trilby

08-01-2012 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 822443)

Hard to imagine many heads of state who'd be up for that.

Slick Willie would've done it.

And possibly Boris Yeltsin - but you would've had to promise him a large vodka gimlet upon landing.

Happy Monkey

08-01-2012 11:12 AM

Putin does it on his daily commute.

Sundae

08-01-2012 12:57 PM

Gary Connery is Putin's stunt name.

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