NBC's Brian Williams Says Thank You to Canada

[FN-2199]

http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/ar...6/2213393.aspx

I'll definitely miss how lively Vancouver was for 17 days.

What do you miss or want to thank?
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Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor
After tonight's broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we're going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week. Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you note.

Thank you, Canada:

For being such good hosts.

For your unfailing courtesy.

For your (mostly) beautiful weather.

For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.

For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents.

For your unique TV commercials -- for companies like Tim Hortons -- which made us laugh and cry.

For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon.

For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games -- you've made wearing your name a cool thing to do.

For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display.

For not honking your horns. I didn't hear one car horn in 15 days -- which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting.

For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years.

For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy.

For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary.

For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one.

For always saying nice things about the United States...when you know we're listening.

For sharing Joannie Rochette with us.

For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society.

Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us.

[Greenstoner]

I thank men's hockey wins the gold medal or even made it into medal games...

i can imagine if men's hokcey got knocked out early, Vancouver would be like a ghost town.

[!Aznboi128]

for those of you who's too lazy to click on the link

Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor
After tonight's broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we're going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week. Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you note.

Thank you, Canada:

For being such good hosts.

For your unfailing courtesy.

For your (mostly) beautiful weather.

For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.

For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents.

For your unique TV commercials -- for companies like Tim Hortons -- which made us laugh and cry.

For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon.

For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games -- you've made wearing your name a cool thing to do.

For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display.

For not honking your horns. I didn't hear one car horn in 15 days -- which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting.

For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years.

For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy.

For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary.

For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one.

For always saying nice things about the United States...when you know we're listening.

For sharing Joannie Rochette with us.

For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society.

Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us.

[FN-2199]

^ Ty. It's too much work to do it on a damn iPhone
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[!Aznboi128]

^ haha np man!

[v.Rossi]

i miss the olympics as a reason to party hardER.

[godwin]

We can always bid for another Winter Olympic games in 20 years like Lake Placid

[raygunpk]

i miss it all

[tonyvu]

only once in a life time... i thank that we could be apart of it all.

[tool001]

ill miss the easy drive to work from downtown 2 granville island and back..

[!Yaminashi]

I'll definitely miss the friendly atmosphere downtown and how friendly everyone was to each other in general.
During the olympics, nothing else mattered, everyone just wanted to have a good time.

The last day (sunday) evening I was downtown and people would just randomly high five and even hug each other. Would you see that any other day of the year? Definitely not in Vancouver

[babykiller]

That is super classy, and sometimes kind of funny. BW seems like a cool cat, has anyone seen him on 30 Rock?

[- kT]

awesome write by BW, pretty funny too

kudos to him!

[dinamix]

i thank usa for lindsey vonn

[Simplex123]

definitely gonna miss the downtown atmosphere.
once in a lifetime, and vancouver did a great job hosting it

[andrei]

haven't party'd that many days in a row in a long time

[skyxx]

I loved the Brian Williams meets Brian Willaims segment.

[hotjoint]

lovely

[FN-2199]

Originally Posted by raygunpk

i miss it all

Me too.
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[underscore]

Originally Posted by skyxx

I loved the Brian Williams meets Brian Willaims segment.

haha that was a good one

[HonestTea]

Originally Posted by skyxx

I loved the Brian Williams meets Brian Willaims segment.

Originally Posted by underscore

haha that was a good one

Link!

[underscore]

here's the story:

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/blogs/blog...tid=48772.html

looking for the vid

edit: found it!

YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.

[JSALES]

^ hilarious