Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes. To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 02:20:49 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote in news:3omnerF6n8n0U1 @individual.net: > weirdwolf wrote: >> Jim Larson wrote in >> news:Xns96CFADE3576BB3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >> >>> weirdwolf wrote: >>> >>>> Jim Larson wrote in >>>> news:Xns96CFABF07B48F3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>>> >>>>> Kath wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yay! >>>>> >>>>> (?) >>>>> >>>> >>>> I was saying to Claire, for all the excitment it brings and the fame >>>> of the competition it must be the smallest trophy in sport. >>> >>> If by "small" you mean "totally irrelevant to anyone outside my >>> benighted island and its former penal colony" then yes. Yes it is. >>> >>> (I kid. I kid because I love. Or loathe. Take your pick.) >>> >> >> Well at least the world cup of cricket is a true world cup, unlike a >> certain baseball competition. Maybe that's because you are worried that >> as American baseball team would do as well as the basketball team. It >> would be amusing though if you lost to say Cuba, could you imagine the >> fun Castro would have pissing off Bush. > > Re: Olympic Basketball > > What the US needs to do is send a team that has actually played > together, then tell them they only get fed when they win. As opposed to a team that has two courts in the whole of the country and where food is scarce all year round? Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .