Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Hypocrisy !!!!!
From: Dante Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:29:17 -0400 (EDT)

The worst thing about it is that soccer is the world's second most boring
sport, right after baseball.

Having just watched the Stanley Cup games and seeing our ex-Red Army
players (I guess "Red" Wings is appropriate in ways they couldn't
have imagined in 1925) savaging the Hurricanes, I think I like  the wanton
violence of ice games better.

But unfortunately no one uses Leicas to shoot those.

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, B. D. Colen wrote:

> This is soccer, people are getting all in a snit about, right? That GAME in
> which one group of alleged adults chases a ball around a field trying to
> kick said ball in a big net, while another group of alleged adults attempts
> to prevent the ball from getting into the net?
>
> Why, oh why, oh why, does anyone care? Unless, of course, they have a close
> friend who plays on one of the teams? And over the outcome of one of these
> "games" people on this list turn on each other?
>
> Hey, folks, the outcomes of these games will not do ANYTHING to solve the
> very real problems faced by all these nations - Argentina's economy will not
> bounce back into shape; France will not become the "super power" it has
> always longed to be; Britain will not regain the 'glory' of its centuries of
> Empire; Korea will not wake up in the morning reunited with North Korea; the
> U.S. will not suddenly have learned how to bear its economic and military
> power in a non-threatening way. It's a game.
>
> Geeeesh!
>
> B. D.
>
> (And, yes, I do feel precisely the same way about American professional
> sports - which are, after all, entertainment spectacles acted out by
> ridiculously high paid entertainers for the benefit of their millionaire and
> billionaire employers.)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Henry Ting
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 10:10 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Hypocrisy !!!!!
>
>
> "still laughing...what a great day!!
> ....and hope this time nobody can feel offended."
>
> I'm not a Brit, but still could feel their pain.
> Can't you at least not rub it in ?
>
> --- Pablo Kolodny <pablokolodny@mac.com> wrote:
> > still laughing... what a great day !!
> >
> > hope this time nobody can feel offended.
> >
> > Pablinho
> >
> >
> >
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