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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hypocrisy !!!!!
From: "dante@umich.edu" <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:14:17 -0400

Maybe the only reason I don't think golf is the most boring sport is that I
sleep through the games on TV.

> I don't know, Dante. I think golf may be the most boring sport. But if
> Argentina ever plays against England in golf, I'll watch it just to see
> what a golf hooligan looks like. Do you suppose they wear plaid pants?
> 
> JLS
> 
> At 12:29 PM 6/22/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> 
>> 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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