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Old 20 November 2012, 09:19 AM
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It would appear that someone else dreamed up the mound idea before Danny Boyle..

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/...124017727.html

Can it be proved ?
Old 20 November 2012, 09:35 AM
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And more importantly, does anybody care?
Old 20 November 2012, 12:19 PM
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Why has it taken him so long to complain?
Old 20 November 2012, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Wurzel
Why has it taken him so long to complain?

Let me take a wild guess. Because a lawyer has told him how much he could potentially sue for? Tell me i'm wrong.
Old 20 November 2012, 02:38 PM
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I can understand how annoying and disappointing it must be if it really is the case that Boyle pinched his original idea.

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Old 20 November 2012, 09:11 PM
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All ideas come from someone else's.

He is just bitter he never won the comp...
Old 21 November 2012, 10:00 AM
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I'd probably do the same if i were him....why not, everyone else would.
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