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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 2:57:34 PM

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Anyway, I foresee the magpies playing in the fizzy pop next term.

If there's any justice in this world.

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Blame the Cockney Mafia.

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 2:57:57 PM

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The day's big football game is already over. Referee Mike Riley has probably ended Chelsea's title challenge by sending Frank Lampard off for a perfectly legal tackle. El Nino marked his return to the big time by sticking a brace in the onion bag, bringing the scousers to within two points of the leaders. Plastic glory-hunters all along the Kings Road are reported to be as sick as parrots.

Oh yea the big games....OH that Bad Man stepped on my toe...I must fall moan and cry...poor me I'm soooo abused...damn what a pansy sport.

And don’t give me the rugby crap…bunch of under nourished twinkle toed white boys playing tough. They couldn’t make the cheerleader squad on a NFL team.

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 3:01:40 PM

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God bless the real men.

Edited to add: "yes we can" (we being the real men, not me obviously).

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 3:05:59 PM

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Oh yea the big games....OH that Bad Man stepped on my toe...I must fall moan and cry...poor me I'm soooo abused...damn what a pansy sport.

And don’t give me the rugby crap…bunch of under nourished twinkle toed white boys playing tough. They couldn’t make the cheerleader squad on a NFL team.

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...and here was me starting this thread to salute a game i don't care for but know to be important for many....thanks for joining in the spirit of the thing.......

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 4:40:39 PM

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I have to go to a Superbowl house party soon and I don't wanna . I hate football, they're all wusses, with their silly helmets and plastic armours. Help.

Now Australian rules football is some kick ass ball`n.

It`s American rules football and rugby mixed, without pads.

Ouch!

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 4:46:16 PM

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Oh yea the big games....OH that Bad Man stepped on my toe...I must fall moan and cry...poor me I'm soooo abused...damn what a pansy sport.

And don’t give me the rugby crap…bunch of under nourished twinkle toed white boys playing tough. They couldn’t make the cheerleader squad on a NFL team.

Tune in and watch some real men play men

Butch

...and here was me starting this thread to salute a game i don't care for but know to be important for many....thanks for joining in the spirit of the thing.......

Now you know I was just having a little fun...I did like the world cup..but there are games then there are real games.

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 4:51:35 PM

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All I needed to know about British sports I learned when I found out about Swingball. If you don't know, that's a girly version of Tetherball.

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 10:37:31 PM

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Do they wear short skirts and head-bands like Olivia Newton-John in her aerobic phase?

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 10:50:57 PM

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Do they wear short skirts and head-bands like Olivia Newton-John in her aerobic phase?

God, i hope so. I'll buy season tickets.

Or better yet, a women's polo league where they all dress like Olivia on that one album cover, where she was copying the Helmut Newton photo and wearing riding boots and jodhpurs, holding a riding crop behind her back. I'll not only buy season tickets, i'll operate the fan club.

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 10:59:51 PM

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Do they wear short skirts and head-bands like Olivia Newton-John in her aerobic phase?

Ha Ha, Vendeval.

No they don't. Imagine tetherball with a smaller ball, and paddles. I guess they are afraid of breaking a nail.

. When I was a youngster, I loved tetherball. Unlike volleyball, you did not open palm slap the ball on a returning serve. No, you hit that bastard as hard as you could with your fist. One of the main pleasures of tetherball was attempting to hit your opponent in the face with a well aimed serve of the ball. Now I just don't see that being a possibility with what I saw of Swingball.

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 11:03:13 PM

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OK, letmeseehere, visualize smaller balls, check, paddles, check, bruised faces, check.

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 11:11:16 PM

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...well if you lot are just going to take the piss out of UK sporting endeavour thats the last time i'm going to be nice about American football....you know, the sport thats just like rugby but where the players are so frightened to get hurt they have to wear armour.....oh yes, and where the atheletes are soooo fit they can't play the whole match, they have to have two teams worth of players.....and where they have to take a break every few minutes, presumably for a nice lie down and nose-full of Bolivian marching candy.

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/1/2009 11:27:53 PM

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M'kay Philosophy. I don't watch football, nor do I care about it. I hate professional sports, so insult it to your heart's content. I just found the British (and Australia, New Zealand from what I hear) version of a favorite, playground American passtime to be rather weird. One of the fine points of tetherball is that it doesn't require much equipment. Kids just run up to the pole and start playing. Leave it to y'all to add paddles and complicate it.

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/2/2009 12:11:23 AM

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...well if you lot are just going to take the piss out of UK sporting endeavour thats the last time i'm going to be nice about American football....you know, the sport thats just like rugby but where the players are so frightened to get hurt they have to wear armour.....oh yes, and where the atheletes are soooo fit they can't play the whole match, they have to have two teams worth of players.....and where they have to take a break every few minutes, presumably for a nice lie down and nose-full of Bolivian marching candy.

Is that that sport which is similar to rounders, or is that baseball?

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/2/2009 7:31:06 AM

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They're legends in Sunderland.

Ah, you're a mackem. I'm keen to see how Tal Ben Haim is going to work out up there - top defender. I'd love those who consider it a sissy game to face Roy Keane on the pitch. What an education that would be, eh?

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/2/2009 7:37:02 AM

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Oh yeah, wtf is a "swingball" when it's at home?

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/2/2009 8:28:55 AM

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The big difference in UK and US sport…In the UK you beat up people and burn cars when you lose …We offer congratulations and pats on the back.
Now who is civilized and who is not?

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/2/2009 9:30:26 AM

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Hmm. Best answer I can give to that is to say that sports over here differ so widely. There are two codes to Rugby - League and Union - and the character of each is pretty distinct. Football is a contact sport and we do see our fair share of serious injuries in the Premiership, which unlike those in Spain or Italy, is played with real pace and physicality. And if you think baseball is long and complex, try a five-day Cricket match. Which may easily end in a draw. The reason our sports are played the world over and yours only in your back yard is that ours offer more opportunity for teams' own style of play to come to the fore, whereas most American sport seems to be about developing a narrow, well-defined technique and then repeating it. We have to hand it to you for your virtuosity at presenting events, though. Cheerleaders, marching bands, mascots. We'd never get David Bowie playing at half-time in the FA Cup Final. You have Springsteen. You have John Phillip Sousa, we sing "Does she take it up the arse?" to David Beckham. But nowadays hooliganism at matches is much rarer here than it is in Italy or Eastern Europe. We love the spectacle and the razzmatazz of American sport but three billion sports fans can't all be wrong: real football is better by far. But, I agree, it is much more civilised, the way you can call a "timeout" when you make a mistake. Very sporting. Ta ra toodle pip.

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/2/2009 9:31:23 AM

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Do they wear short skirts and head-bands like Olivia Newton-John in her aerobic phase?

Ha Ha, Vendeval. No they don't. Imagine tetherball with a smaller ball, and paddles. I guess they are afraid of breaking a nail. . When I was a youngster, I loved tetherball. Unlike volleyball, you did not open palm slap the ball on a returning serve. No, you hit that bastard as hard as you could with your fist. One of the main pleasures of tetherball was attempting to hit your opponent in the face with a well aimed serve of the ball. Now I just don't see that being a possibility with what I saw of Swingball.

I love playing tetherball!
We play it while at work but usually it's the "shorter" people that play (I am surprised at how well they play
and at how hard they hit the ball too).

I like being the tallest one on the playground, LOL!
(although height doesn't neccesarily mean you'll win)

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RE: apparently theres some sporting event or other... - 2/2/2009 9:37:24 AM

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Oh yeah, NG, I see Ben Haim isn't moving after all. You're buying Calum Davenport instead. Butch, please note: Davenport broke his neck in a football match less than a year ago and is back playing. Siss boom ra that!

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