Post #391,206
6/26/14 4:07:21 PM
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World Cup and authentic Americans
The respected pundit Ann Coulter suggests that the growing attention paid to the World Cup is a symptom of national moral degeneracy. She blames this on the moldering corpse of Edward M. Kennedy. My favorite bit: I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. Actually, my boss, the middle manager to whom I have reported since 2011, takes a fortnight off every year at this time to mainline World Cup coverage. His family has been in the States since the early nineteenth century. But they're, you know, black, so I guess that excludes them from "American" in Coulter's definition. Perhaps I can return the slur by observing that no real American woman has an Adam's apple the size of a tennis ball? cordially,
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Post #391,208
6/26/14 4:39:32 PM
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always wondered about that tenis ball
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Post #391,209
6/26/14 5:15:12 PM
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Is that real? It reads like The Onion
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Post #391,211
6/26/14 5:33:31 PM
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Re: World Cup and authentic Americans
Fun fact:
Ann Coulter net worth: ~ $8.5M
David Beckham (who she so derides in the article) net worth: $350M
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Post #391,214
6/26/14 6:41:29 PM
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As usual, the dumb bitch is only trying to get attention.
I'm an immigrant and all the years in the refuge camp in Germany played soccer. Not official soccer, not a real soccer ball even, but sure did kick a ball around.
Also, on a number of occasions I sneaked in a near by town stadium to watch soccer games. The games between the bakers and the chimney sweeps were a hoot. The bakers in white uniforms had flour in their pockets and the chimney sweeps in black uniforms had soot in theirs. Now and then they would reach in to their pockets and toss a handful of stuff on their opponent. Just a few years after WW-II, the Germans knew how to have fun!
The point is I was very familiar with the game, but have never watched a complete professional game since! I've seen just a handful of games that my grandkids participated in.
So, any claims of correlation between being a soccer fan and length of ancestry tree in US are specious. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #391,220
6/27/14 1:40:11 AM
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Nit
Every year?
Do you mean every four years?
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Post #391,234
6/27/14 12:27:19 PM
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four years, of course
That was consequence of trying to compose an entry here and to answer a telephone inquiry simultaneously (turns out I'm one of those people who only think they can multitask). I rather wish the guy would absent himself for a like period each year. I'd be spared a couple of pointless staff meetings.
cordially,
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Post #391,381
7/2/14 5:34:22 PM
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Re: four years, of course
I am relieved that the United States has been eliminated from the championship of the World's Most Boring Sport. I look forward to it fading from the national consciousness for the next three-and-a-half years.
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Post #391,385
7/2/14 6:32:52 PM
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not the most boring sport, guelf and wnba are more boring
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Post #391,484
7/4/14 10:40:57 AM
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Are you talking about the city of Guelph, Ontario?
You know, the city named after the noise you make after you party?
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Post #391,494
7/4/14 12:36:44 PM
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Feh!
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Post #391,507
7/4/14 1:23:56 PM
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Heh :)
We tend towards a slightly subtler approach to mocking places.
Like Regina in Saskatchewan. The city that rhymes with fun.
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Post #391,538
7/4/14 8:58:57 PM
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We gots Intercourse PA. (for once, less vulgar than Blighty?)
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Post #391,545
7/4/14 10:12:42 PM
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Re: Feh!
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greg@gregfolkert.net
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Post #391,550
7/4/14 10:58:24 PM
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Sounds like an Iranian outpost.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #391,551
7/4/14 11:03:55 PM
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Britain does seem to be overly represented
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #391,554
7/4/14 11:31:27 PM
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Canada does OK.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #391,558
7/5/14 4:43:08 AM
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Day after I picked up my A-H Sprite in London, I drove out to Abingdon
where Sprites were built (just for the random hell of it.) Was a week-end; saw bodies for Sprites stacked in a fenced area ... all right near the village of Maidenhead
--snapped pic of the sign on my Minox spy-camera.
Ah those Puritans: spreading sex-is-Evull across the centuries--making Murica what it is today.
(The UK did us no favours by merely booting them out:
they bloody-well Doomed us to become the dis-USA.)
Now if only they had ...
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Post #391,576
7/5/14 1:55:25 PM
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big bone lick ky
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Post #391,575
7/5/14 1:54:04 PM
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nope, guelph is amusing in the wintertime, they play brantford
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Post #391,402
7/3/14 1:55:33 AM
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Come now
Bowling Golf Tennis American Stop-Start-Fall-Over-Football ...all more boring than football. Although football is pretty dreary. Anyhoo, the bestest World Cup is next year - Rugby Union. And it's in England (I and a delegation from my local pub are going to see NZ v Tonga at Newcastle). Should be fun. The Tongans are reknowned for being big lads. Also, respect the 'fro: 
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