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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hypocrisy !!!!!
From: "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:00:53 -0600
References: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOCEAPDOAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net>

Hi B. D.,

You must be getting old.

Development of the mind without the body is only half an education and 
not conducive to a long healthy life.

Regards,

Greg


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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