Since John brought it up, I'll use the original hijacked thread to note today's Google Doodle.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:17 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Of course, hockey - I mean "ice hockey" - is huge here. When I was a kid it >> was cold enough that we played organized hockey at outdoor rink with natural >> ice. I don't think I played in an arena with artificial ice until my third >> season for a playoff game. >> >> When we weren't playing organized hockey we played "pickup" games or shinny >> (as "scrub" is to baseball) on backyard rinks. >> >> I didn't even know there was field hockey or grass hockey until I was about >> ten years old. I seem to recall during an Olympic Games (likely Mexico in >> '68) hearing them talk of "hockey", and my father explaining that in much of >> the world "hockey" (no modifier) was on grass and "ice hockey" was what we >> played. > > I decided to look up hockey in wikipedia and see which is older and was > surprised by the range of games called hockey. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey > > Some years back I learned snorkeling in my attempt to play underwater hockey: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_hockey > > > >> >> We feel that any game where a backhand shot is illegal, where there's no >> bodychecking and where there are no fist fights couldn't possibly be hockey >> as we know it. Besides, there were no guys named Jean-Guy, Jacques or Henri. >> Whatever they were playing on that big green field wasn't anything we were >> familiar with! >> >> Mind you this was a time when there were exactly two American players in the >> entire National Hockey League; all the rest were Canadian. It would be >> another fifteen years before the first Europeans came here to play in the >> premier professional league in the world. And when the first Russians came >> here they had to defect, just like ballet dancers. >> >> With ice hockey so popular outside our borders these days, it's easy to >> forget that up to a couple of decades ago it really was a largely North >> American thing. >> >> Cheers, >> frank >> >> >> >> "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- >> Christopher Hitchens >> >> --- Original Message --- >> >> From: Anthony Farr <farranth...@gmail.com> >> Sent: July 29, 2012 7/29/12 >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >> Subject: Re: OT: London Olympics 2012 >> >> On 30 July 2012 11:21, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> You're probably right that field hockey is a much bigger sport in the >>> third world and girl's prep schools. I was thinking mostly of North >>> America, Europe and Russia. >> >> Well obviously a nation needs to be reasonably affluent to support a >> sport that is alien to its its climate, which requires artificial >> rinks with powerful refrigeration to overcome relatively high ambient >> temperatures even in winter. But you call many of these nations >> "third world" at the risk of being labeled a cultural imperialist. >> >> Hockey is massive in the Asian sub-continent, and is strongly >> entrenched in Western Europe. Naturally, ice hockey is more strongly >> followed in Northern and Eastern Europe and North America, where the >> culture of snow and ice sports is strongest, and barely represented in >> Central Africa, Equatorial America and South East Asia where there is >> practically no culture of winter at all. But the people who follow >> these sports are equal citizens of the world, and are due absolutely >> no more or less consideration or respect because of their homelands' >> place in the world or the hue of their flesh. Shame on anyone who >> would think otherwise. >> >> regards, Anthony >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
