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From: "Derek Bradley" <>
Subject: Re: Fw: [YKS] My thoughts on lurking etc etc
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:44:30 -0000
References: <200303050554.h255sea93457@mail.freeola.enta.net>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [YKS] My thoughts on lurking etc etc


> "Forrest G. Plumstead" <> wrote.....
>
> > Play? Here we play Man style competitions like football, baseball, and
> > basketball.>

Roy,
I don't know how this little intercontinental 'discussion' started as I have not followed it from
the beginning but here goes for my two penn'orth.
Don't know how you can support rugby league - a bastardised version of the proper game - Rugby
Union. As for soccer - how on earth can anyone get enjoyment from 22 'men' kicking an inflated
piece of leather round, especially when you are sat in the open in the middle of winter and it
appears to have been taken over by the 'yob' element. As for the sheer boredom of sitting watching
a cricket match, words fail me.
Derek Bradley.
(A unique, soccer and cricket hating, Yorkshireman exiled in Hertfordshire)

> FORGOT to mention that the REAL man's game is rugby league, as played
> in Yorkshire where they don't wear armour plating, ridiculous long
> john underpants, helmets and other poncy gear to protect their parts.
> An American footballer wouldn't last 5 minutes in rugby league
> without his protective outer cladding!
>
> Baseball, of course, is based on the English game of rounders, which
> is only played here by schoolchildren mostly under 10, while
> basketball is a joke game played by freaks over 7 feet tall. In
> England, the game is played principally by women in short skirts but
> called netball. Still, I suppose the attraction is that you get
> absurd scores like 144-139, which satisfies the American desire for
> anything to do with large numbers.
>
> I've never yet met an American who could understand how a soccer game
> lasting 90 minutes can be extremely exciting but end in a nil-nil
> draw, or an international cricket match (Test Matches, as they're
> known) last for 5 days and end without a result. Trouble is, such
> concepts make the American brain hurt ! <even bigger g. than in my
> first message>
>
> Roy Stockdill (Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies)
> Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org
> Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html
>
> Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why
humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith
>
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