HW: Hawk help / OFF Mornington Crescent

[Ted Jackson]

On 19 Feb 2001, at 11:08, Brian Halligan wrote:

> > Layla Thompson writes:
> >
> >> what do you mean by, "it'll be Rounders all over again"?
>
> FoFP replied:
> > We're all still quite upset at a perfectly sensible game like
> > Rounders being turned into the hoo-ha that is its poor cousin
> > Baseball.
>
> Be careful you don't start an international incident. North Americans
> get your bats! :-)
>
> Chip, Larry, Theo, Andrew...you with me?

What, deride a sport where the pitcher [er, is it 'bowler'?] actually
wants the batter to hit the ball?  Nope, you're on your own here...

> > Next thing you know, the yanks will be letting women play soccer.
>
Those were women???  Holy shit...



> Ouch!
>
> I heard that Soccer is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
> Interesting for a game that promotes fanatic nationalism and incites
> violence in the streets. Truly a noble game.
>
Right!  When's the last time us savage Americans had a spectator
killed at a game, or had the fans tear the stadium apart?  'Course
that's only because soccer's so damned boring that the fans have
all this built-up frustration, etc...

How could the same people have invented the hallowed game of
golf?

theo