Re: [Really OT] 2 hours till the biggest event in the year starts...
On 06/15/2010 11:43 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Yes, played with the foot, unless you are the goalie in which case you CAN play with the hands, which would then require that the game be called, "football-unless-you-are-the-goalie-then-it's-handball". Looks like the world is not a perfect place after all. ;-) Bob On Jun 15, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: * For the American readers here, by "football" I'm referring to the game in which the ball is moved with the foot, as opposed to the American game which mistakenly uses the same name but in which the ball is carried in the hands; I guess "handball" was already taken when they were naming that one. ;) Surely the question comes down to whether you like round balls or oval balls. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [Really OT] 2 hours till the biggest event in the year starts...
Yes, played with the foot, unless you are the goalie in which case you CAN play with the hands, which would then require that the game be called, "football-unless-you-are-the-goalie-then-it's-handball". Looks like the world is not a perfect place after all. ;-) Bob On Jun 15, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > * For the American readers here, by "football" I'm referring to the game in > which the ball is moved with the foot, as opposed to the American game which > mistakenly uses the same name but in which the ball is carried in the hands; > I guess "handball" was already taken when they were naming that one. ;) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [Really OT] 2 hours till the biggest event in the year starts...
On 06/15/2010 11:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Andre Garzia wrote: Sorry for this OT but it is in my DNA, if I don't do this I loose my citzenship and my passport. Well, in just about 2 hours the world cup will finally start, as you all know, if only starts when WE enter the stage. I wish all the other teams a good experience in loosing to us. We know our current soccer team is quite bad. The coach is some crazy guy that decided to keep some wonderful players out, here in Brazil, we call a good player a "craque" which sounds like crack, the drug, so when the coach announced the team, outdoors and billboards were seen saying "do like the coach, don't use craque" as a joke with the drug campaigns. If Brazil scores less than 4x0 in this first match, I will personally boo the players till they are deaf. Now, this country is making so much noise with vuvuzelas since 6:00 AM that you guys over north america and europe might just be hearing us. Imagine, a country made of yellow and green vuvuzelas... É HEXA! BRASIL Andre "painting my face right now" Garzia :) Just as there is no rugby without the All Blacks, there can be no football* without the Brazilians. Best of luck to your team. Now that they're in I'll start watching. * For the American readers here, by "football" I'm referring to the game in which the ball is moved with the foot, as opposed to the American game which mistakenly uses the same name but in which the ball is carried in the hands; I guess "handball" was already taken when they were naming that one. ;) I think if you do a spot of historical research you will find that American football is descended from a variant of Rugby football (in England there are 2 variants: Rugby Union: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union (15 players a side) Rugby League: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_league (13 players a side) ) there are also: Canadian football: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_football (12 players a side) Australian football: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football (18 players a side on an oval pitch) William Thursfield is my cousin (his Grandmother is my Mother's sister): http://www.aussierulesinternational.com/home/world/europe/england/will_thursfield and what has to be the best of all: Underwater rugby: http://www.uv-sport.dk/UVENG/NIVEAU/Uv1.htm To make things easier let's make up a table of equivalencies: Rugby football as played at Rugby school in the mid-19th century = Hypercard Rugby football as played in a school playground in about 1910 = SERF Rugby League = Supercard Rugby Union = Metacard Scots Rugby Union = RunRev Oh Blast; I got so carried away I forgot about American football altogether. Now if that is not REALLY OT I don't know what is. AND; my cousin William knows nothing about RunRev. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: [Really OT] 2 hours till the biggest event in the year starts...
Andre Garzia wrote: Sorry for this OT but it is in my DNA, if I don't do this I loose my citzenship and my passport. Well, in just about 2 hours the world cup will finally start, as you all know, if only starts when WE enter the stage. I wish all the other teams a good experience in loosing to us. We know our current soccer team is quite bad. The coach is some crazy guy that decided to keep some wonderful players out, here in Brazil, we call a good player a "craque" which sounds like crack, the drug, so when the coach announced the team, outdoors and billboards were seen saying "do like the coach, don't use craque" as a joke with the drug campaigns. If Brazil scores less than 4x0 in this first match, I will personally boo the players till they are deaf. Now, this country is making so much noise with vuvuzelas since 6:00 AM that you guys over north america and europe might just be hearing us. Imagine, a country made of yellow and green vuvuzelas... É HEXA! BRASIL Andre "painting my face right now" Garzia :) Just as there is no rugby without the All Blacks, there can be no football* without the Brazilians. Best of luck to your team. Now that they're in I'll start watching. * For the American readers here, by "football" I'm referring to the game in which the ball is moved with the foot, as opposed to the American game which mistakenly uses the same name but in which the ball is carried in the hands; I guess "handball" was already taken when they were naming that one. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
