Olympic Games: What is your ideal opening ceremony?

Oh, Gawd....not another rendition of Ob la di!

Macca's doing the closing ceremony. Surely they won't have him at the opening as well.

definitely NOT David Beckham-he doesn't even live here anymore, and would open an envelope if there was any chance of a camera. Agree about Cliff and Macca as well-enough is enough.

you can have a ticket, nanaej. All grans welcome!

I'm wishing I had a ticket for this event now! I knew GNs would come up with a real spectacular.. seriously the giant puppets idea would have been brill...different athletes! Zara on warhorse etc gets 2 for 1 as well so economical.. a semi royal and an athlete!!

Roy Hattersley spitting into the crowd rounded off by a rendition of The Chicken Song.....

Ooh yes, royals as puppets. Massive Spitting Images puppets would be good, but can't see them getting away with that at an Olympics event x

So...massive puppets of the royals and maybe politicians shot from a cannon. Spectacular!

Yes, the War Horse ones are amazing - a few of those would be so impressive in a ceremony.

I'd like to have those massive puppets that I've seen in parades before, or War Horse ones.

Are we talking about The Royals again?

Ha, ha! Or shoot them from a cannon...

Let's have a massive spectacle, which should be as sensational as many pop concerts and light shows manage to do these days. When you think about the massive elephant Take That brought out in a recent show, multiply that by 10, with fireworks, a section by the bands and cavalry who are so good at trooping the colour, and if they've got to produce Macca and Sir Cliff, parachute them out of an aircraft so when they land they're too knackered to utter a note!

Please not Macca!

A brass band - but I think that might be in the pipeline already as Elgar's 'Nimrod' is on the programme.
And how can you have an English opening ceremony without Cliff? [tongue in cheek emoticon]