Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi B. D., You must be getting old. Development of the mind without the body is only half an education and not conducive to a long healthy life. Regards, Greg B. D. Colen wrote: >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 >> >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see >> >http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup >http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com >-- >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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html