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L O W L A N D S - L * 22 June 2006 * Volume 04
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From: 'Ben J. Bloomgren' <godsquad at cox.net>
Subject: LL-L 'Sports' 2006.06.22 (01 [E]

>A propos of AR football, there HAS as to be a game for Aussies to play when
>they're sober & watch when they're drunk
When is the Aussy Rules Football season?
Ben

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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L 'Lexicon' 2006.06.21 (02] [D/E]

    From: Piet Bult

    Helge wrote:
    > I had no intention to trigger off a discussion about football here

    Okay, no football or soccer then, but it brought me up a question if there
    are (more) very typicial LS sports like f.i. we do have in Fryslân it
    'fierljeppen' (polsstok-ver-springen), 'keatsen' (some kind of 'jeu de
    pelote') and 'ljip-aaisykje' (kiviets-eierenzoeken). Are there...?
    Groetnis uut 'n smoek Fryslân,
    Piet Bult

Is "polsstok-ver-springen" that game they play in Friesland where you pole-vault
over water?  I saw a program about that years ago.  Looked great fun!
 
Paul Finlow-Bates

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From: 'Karl-Heinz Lorenz' <Karl-Heinz.Lorenz at gmx.net>
Subject: LL-L 'Lexicon' 2006.06.21 (02] [D/E]

Not much traffic on lowlands-l in these days, because:

Fußball ist unser lebender König, Fußball regiert die Welt!

Voetbal is ons levend Koning, Voetball regeert de wereld!

Football is our living King, Football reigns the world!

Nogomet je naš Kralj, Nogomet je predsjednik na svijetu! (Croatian)

Le Football est notre Roi vivant, le Football régit le monde!

Il Calcio è il nostro Re, il Calcio regge il mondo!

…

Sorry for our (Austrian) Croatian neighbours, congratulation to Australia! I
happened to have an Australian besides me in the pub, watching the match, always
asking: What happened, I don't understand.

Ja, this match, Australia-Croatia, was the most remarkable till now, with all
these wrong decisions of the referee, nobody understands.

And btw it's a Lowlands triumph with Dutch Gus Hiddincks as Australian Coach.

Greetings from Austria

Karl-Heinz 

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From: ''Mark Dreyer' <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L 'Sports' 2006.06.21 (04] [E]

Dear Gabriele

Subject: LL-L 'Sports'

Mark wrote:
>It reminds me of what Haraun al Rashid's ambassador to the court of
>Charlemagne reported to his king about jousting, "Too daintie for sport &
>too bloodie for warre." OK, I know it's anachronistic, but it's an OLD
>anachronism.

Nice quote, but are you quite sure it shouldn't be the other way round?

Dead right. Thanks for spotting it, Gabriele, sorry I didn't. Finger
trouble...

Yrs,
Mark

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From: 'Global Moose Translations' <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L 'Sports' 2006.06.22 (02 [E]

Well, what do you know, Ghana defeated the USA and made it to the next
round! We were highly amused when they showed some African fans hold up a
transparent before the game, reading: "God bless the USA, and let Ghana
win!"

This is Ghana's first time in the championship ever. Congratulations to the
Australians as well, who are also going on to the... what do you call them
in English? Eighth finals? Octalfinals? What's the correct term?? Anyway,
this is only their second time in the world championships. The last time was
also in Germany, in 1974.

I think I want Argentina to win, though, because I can't wait to see how
Diego Maradona is going to celebrate that!! Or maybe the Mexicans, because
they have their training camp right here where I live, and it's been a
veritable fiesta so far.

Gabriele Kahn

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