Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html