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From: anonymous@bogus_address.con
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Subject: Re: Foosball!
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On 2002-01-16 mathwft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor) said:

   >anonymous@bogus_address.con writes:
   >
   > > In the rest of the world, 'football' refers to the game of
   > > 'soccer'
   >
   >RUBBISH!
   >
   >In New Zealand and Wales, football means rugby union; in Queensland
   >and New South Wales, it means rugby league, and in the rest of
   >Australia it means Aussie rules...

Well, Bill, you snipped an important line from the original
message.  In totality, it read:

  > > In the rest of the world, 'football' refers to the game of
  > > 'soccer' (or some derivative of soccer).
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There's no gentle way to break this news to you, son, so
I'll just have to directly tell you that 'rugby union,'
'rugby league' and 'Australian rules' are =all= derivatives
of soccer.