Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Hypocrisy !!!!!
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:58:05 -0400

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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