Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 6/26/02 11:45 AM, Joseph Codispoti at joecodi@clearsightusa.com wrote: > Mike, > > obviously, if you are sports oriented, your preferences favor other "silly" > sports, maybe hockey where often heads are mistaken for the puck, or > American futbol where most of the action is taking place on the side line by > those girls in short skirts and others dressed in silly animal costumes. > > I often wonder what Aliens hovering several miles above the earth might > think of us as a species as they observe us kicking, batting, swatting, > swinging, punching, and chasing, balls or varying sizes and shapes. > > As for bastardizing the name, I think that is the English speakers who do > not spell it correctly. Think about it, F-You -T-B -Oh-L spells FUTBOL. > > Cheers, > > Joe Codispoti > > > From: "Mike Cahill" <mcahill@laurelgroup.com> >> I'm sure glad this damn World Cup stuff only comes up every four years. > All >> this nationalism crap plus the fact they keep bastardizing the name >> "football" to describe this silly sport, makes it pretty hard to take for >> all of us true American "Football" fans :-) >> >> (I fully expect to get toasted for this one) >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 In the interest of staying on topic, I'm trying to figure out how to couple something as dopey and boring as "F-You -T-B -Oh-L" ("soccer" to the rest of us), with the excitement of using Leica cameras. Alas, I can't..... - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html