Oh My God. The seminal Television are out of retirement and playing a gig here in Edinburgh on Monday.Yours truly has a ticket.

Does that make me a the worlds luckiest man? I shall spend the weekend listening to "Marquee Moon" and hoping my cousins from IN-GER-LAND get stuffed....er.... I mean .. give a good account of themselves against Denmark in the World Cup.
. One little point. 32 teams are competing in the World Cup. How many countries compete in the World Series at baseball?.Is it just the USA or are others involved?

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE:)

> One little point. 32 teams are competing in the World Cup. How many
> countries compete in the World Series at baseball?.Is it just the USA or
> are others involved?

I think that only American teams can play, that way the Yanks can say that they're world champions at something. You know these Americans. They have tremendous egos. Unless they've invented something, they pretend it doesn't exist. That's why they've mangled the spellings of perfectly good words like "labour", "sulphur", "colour", "harbour" and "flavour", just to claim them as their own. And they somehow contrive to pronounce "Colin" as "Coal-linn". Oddballs.

TMF

> I think that only American teams can play, that way the Yanks can say that
> they're world champions at something.

Make that NORTH American teams, as Toronto and Montreal are both a part of Major League Baseball.

> You know these Americans. They have
> tremendous egos. Unless they've invented something, they pretend it
> doesn't exist. That's why they've mangled the spellings of perfectly good
> words like "labour", "sulphur", "colour",
> "harbour" and "flavour", just to claim them as their
> own.

Are you suggesting that the English invented labor, sulphor, color, harbor and flavor??

And they somehow contrive to pronounce "Colin" as
> "Coal-linn". Oddballs.

As an American, I'm blushingly embarrassed - by the pronunciation of "Coal-lin." I use "Cah-lin," myself.

> I think that only American teams can play, that way the Yanks can say that
> they're world champions at something. You know these Americans. They have
> tremendous egos.

Don't ya think that if America cared at all about soccer we would be the best in the world at it? You should thank yr lucky stars that our best athletes go into other sports! Name a sport America cares about and eff me if America ain't the greatest at it. (OK,Canada is tops in Hockey, one exception.) That may be arrogant, but we all know that it's true. : P

But soccer is boring, so the rest of the world can have it.

OK, I'm kidding, calm down. Well, maybe I'm not kidding....

>Unless they've invented something, they pretend it
> doesn't exist. That's why they've mangled the spellings of perfectly good
> words like "labour", "sulphur", "colour",
> "harbour" and "flavour", just to claim them as their
> own. And they somehow contrive to pronounce "Colin" as
> "Coal-linn". Oddballs.

> TMF

Baseball? It's f*cking rounders, the sport you play if you're a girl in the 3rd year wearing navy gym knickers, the soft bastards!

LMC xx

> I think that only American teams can play, that way the Yanks can say that
> they're world champions at something. You know these Americans. They have
> tremendous egos. Unless they've invented something, they pretend it
> doesn't exist. That's why they've mangled the spellings of perfectly good
> words like "labour", "sulphur", "colour",
> "harbour" and "flavour", just to claim them as their
> own. And they somehow contrive to pronounce "Colin" as
> "Coal-linn". Oddballs.

> TMF

> And they somehow contrive to pronounce "Colin" as
> "Coal-linn". Oddballs.

By far, the worst is "aunt" pronounced as "ant." There are a few sensible places in the US that manage to remember that there is a "u" in the word, but this is the exception.

> Baseball? It's f*cking rounders, the sport you play if you're a girl in
> the 3rd year wearing navy gym knickers, the soft bastards!

My knickershorts were bugundy so think yourself lucky missy!

he he xJx

Its true, the imbecile left alone with the clearly difficult job of wireing one little word across the 'old barnacled umbilicus, Atlantic cable' got the bugger wrong... Shame they didn't make up a little rhyme for the person to remember it by you know like the m i ss i ss i pp i one! ...I'm only sayin.