Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/26
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on 6/26/02 11:45 AM, Joseph Codispoti at joecodi@clearsightusa.com wrote:
> Mike,
>
> obviously, if you are sports oriented, your preferences favor other "silly"
> sports, maybe hockey where often heads are mistaken for the puck, or
> American futbol where most of the action is taking place on the side line by
> those girls in short skirts and others dressed in silly animal costumes.
>
> I often wonder what Aliens hovering several miles above the earth might
> think of us as a species as they observe us kicking, batting, swatting,
> swinging, punching, and chasing, balls or varying sizes and shapes.
>
> As for bastardizing the name, I think that is the English speakers who do
> not spell it correctly. Think about it, F-You -T-B -Oh-L spells FUTBOL.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joe Codispoti
>
>
> From: "Mike Cahill" <mcahill@laurelgroup.com>
>> I'm sure glad this damn World Cup stuff only comes up every four years.
> All
>> this nationalism crap plus the fact they keep bastardizing the name
>> "football" to describe this silly sport, makes it pretty hard to take for
>> all of us true American "Football" fans :-)
>>
>> (I fully expect to get toasted for this one)
>>
>>
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In the interest of staying on topic, I'm trying to figure out how to couple
something as dopey and boring as "F-You -T-B -Oh-L" ("soccer" to the rest of
us), with the excitement of using Leica cameras.
Alas, I can't.....
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