@Rockhead,
Well, they do say " A bird is worth two Bushes in the hand"!
@Rockhead,
Good luck! Canada and Australia (now our sister countries) produce 50% of the world's supply of uranium. And we mine our own back East. That means you'll have to deal with former Soviet countries or small African nations.
Besides, you'd have to fly the stuff over our airspace to get it. We'd never let that happen. You'd be better off with a defensive strategy that included large sticks.
Oh, wait...you don't have any trees there, do you!!!
@Eva,
only next to the rivers, and Colorado has already efficiently shut that off...
(I dint start this war, and I will certainly not be elected as presidint of the Kansas Republic)
Mebbe y'all could let me and Gram out before ya start it???
@Rockhead,
I knew it.
The flood of illegal immigrants has begun.
Keep movin'. Yep, just follow I-35. Keep goin' 'til you pass the Red River.
@Eva,
Eva wrote:
I will live on the border, so my...um..."neighbours" need to know if it will be OK to shoot Kansans who cross the border illegally.
You missed something here, Eva. The guns are not going to be on the colonial side of the border.
@roger,
You don't know very much about Oklahoma, do you, Roger?
I'm sure the players in the present Major League Baseball World Series from Venezuela, Cuba, Japan, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Canada will be surprised to learn that the game is only played in the United States.
Also, I would like to request, for my own part, that England and her various vanquished and/or subservient neighbors stop with the pretense of entering British tennis players into the Championships at Wimbledon. We all know that likelihood of a Brit winning on those lawns is about equal to the probability of England regaining the Ashes.*
* So long, as course, as the degenerate but battling Aussies keep the bitter memory of 2005 alive...
@Eva,
If I'm leavin', it's headed North, BTW...
@Eva,
Lived in Tulsa for 9 years, just off Pine & Lewis. Clearly, you didn't read the Queen's decree in its entirty. The Queen don't like guns; probably a phobia going back to circa 1776
@patiodog,
patiodog wrote:
I'm sure the players in the present Major League Baseball World Series from Venezuela, Cuba, Japan, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Canada will be surprised to learn that the game is only played in the United States.
Also, I would like to request, for my own part, that England and her various vanquished and/or subservient neighbors stop with the pretense of entering British tennis players into the Championships at Wimbledon. We all know that likelihood of a Brit winning on those lawns is about equal to the probability of England regaining the Ashes.*
* So long, as course, as the degenerate but battling Aussies keep the bitter memory of 2005 alive...
Well, it's not like baseball is played in any countries that actually MATTER.
The Brits'll get the Ashes back within 5 years, I betcha.
@patiodog,
Quote:We all know that likelihood of a Brit winning on those lawns is about equal to the probability of England regaining the Ashes.*
The Brits have Andy Murray now - who's actually a Scot - but closer than they've been in years. Seems he can actually hit a ball - several times.
The Poms winning the Ashes (again) - **** - I hope not. Although the Aussies are getting a bit of a thumping in India lately!
@dlowan,
You even know what a baseball is? You think you have football. but it's played with a round ball, after all.
@roger,
We have four different codes of football here....and then there's that game played in the US, with a small, mostly expat, following here - which isn't really football. 5 codes of football if you are a bit loose with your footy definitions!
@dlowan,
But it is played in a sleeveless "muscle shirt," which is ever so classy.
@patiodog,
According to a new book about how England gave the world organised sport baseball was invented here in the mid 18th century.
Why do fielders wear "mitts"?
@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:
Is it? I never watch it.
What I told you. You don't know.
@spendius,
Quote:Why do fielders wear "mitts"?
Most fielders wear gloves, which have separate compartments from each finger. Mitts have a compartment for the four two-jointed fingers and another for the thumb -- like mittens -- and are worn by the catcher and the first baseman.
The wiki entry on the history of baseball (and its many earlier relatives) is actually pretty interesting. Spendy will probably appreciate a game called stoolball (which would appear to be more directly related to cricket than to baseball if'n you ask me) (funny name, "stoolball," tee hee) to the same end as spin the bottle. 'Twas apparently forbidden in churchyards in 14th century England...
