Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes.
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 14:23:42

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
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> weirdwolf wrote:
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>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>> news:Xns96D05064132CDndtcm@204.153.244.170: 
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>>> weirdwolf wrote:
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>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>>>> news:Xns96D04EC6F8D20ndtcm@ 204.153.244.170:
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>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
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>>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
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>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote:
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>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96CFADE3576BB3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> 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. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I would like them to go back to sending college players.
>>>>>>> But I agree with Ted.  It isn't right for us to claim we won a
>>>>>>> "World Championship" when we are the only ones who play.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <coughs>Blue jays<coughs>
>>>>>> Mind you with the influx of central American, and East asian
>>>>>> players I'ld be interested to see what percentage of players are
>>>>>> of US descent. Ted
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> There are no Blue Jays in basketball.
>>>>> (Football either for that matter)
>>>> 
>>>> Well I was originally joking about baseballs not so world series.
>>>> Do they call the NBA championship something along those lines as
>>>> well then? I don't follow basketball at all, never interests me.
>>>> But just for you I will alter the comment to:
>>>> <coughs>Raptors</coughs> 
>>> 
>>> No, they don't call the championship by that name but they always
>>> refer to the winners as "World Champions". 
>> 
>> BWahahaha, I've seen no end of people that have won a competition
>> within their own group,(not style but group), of various martial arts
>> and then claim that they are world champions. A lot of them couldn't
>> stand up to a fart, it makes you wonder where they get the nerve to
>> do it. 
>>   I'm actually surprised that the raptors are still playing in
>>   Toronto 
>> what with the American habit of moving team franchises
>> around,<mutters> stoopid yanks moving the bloody Expos </mutters>
> 
> 
> If the multi-millionaire owners think they can squeeze another dollar
> out of a team they will move them in a second.  The New Orleans Saints
> actually get a several million dollar a year stipend from the state
> and the owner has been threatening to move if he can't get some more
> revenue, I suspect his children are having to re-wear their underpants
> or something from hearing him talk about his financial woes. 
> Personally, I think they can get the hell out.
> 

"and with 37 starting players out with flu the Oakland raiders have 
resorted to using drunks conscripted from bars"
 Personaaly I didn't see all that much difference myself.
Ted

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