Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe the only reason I don't think golf is the most boring sport is that I sleep through the games on TV. > I don't know, Dante. I think golf may be the most boring sport. But if > Argentina ever plays against England in golf, I'll watch it just to see > what a golf hooligan looks like. Do you suppose they wear plaid pants? > > JLS > > At 12:29 PM 6/22/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >> The worst thing about it is that soccer is the world's second most boring >> sport, right after baseball. >> >> Having just watched the Stanley Cup games and seeing our ex-Red Army >> players (I guess "Red" Wings is appropriate in ways they couldn't >> have imagined in 1925) savaging the Hurricanes, I think I like the wanton >> violence of ice games better. >> >> But unfortunately no one uses Leicas to shoot those. >> >> On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, 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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - ------------ Dante Stella http://www.dantestella.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html