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Is flag-waving stupid and immature?

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Thomas
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 09:47 am
Setanta wrote:
You have an unreal notion of the value of twenty bucks . . .

I told you I'm a Suabian. You know, one the people whose forefathers got expelled from Scotland for excessive miserliness.
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 09:56 am
Thomas wrote:
Setanta wrote:
You have an unreal notion of the value of twenty bucks . . .

I told you I'm a Suabian. You know, one the people whose forefathers got expelled from Scotland for excessive miserliness.


How can you tell a Scot, in the kitchen?

He turns off the gas while he turns over his bacon rashers.
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kitchenpete
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 10:13 am
One my grandparents used to say (how humour has changed) Rolling Eyes

The Scotsman's Lament

"Here I am all brokenhearted - spent a penny and only farted"

I prefer one I heard more recently

The Cowboy's Lament

"I went to bed at 2 with a 10 and woke up at 10 with a 2" Laughing


Spargelsaison in Schwabien, oder?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 11:18 am
kitchenpete wrote:

Spargelsaison in Schwabien, oder?

Living less than 2 km's away from the next aspargus fields and the farmer's shop ...


http://i2.tinypic.com/119bccn.jpg


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In Nordrhein-Westfalen wird Spargel auf einer Fläche von 3 900 Hektar angebaut. Damit liegt dieses Bundesland nach Niedersachsen an zweiter Stelle. In Deutschland wächst auf 18 200 Hektar das Edelgemüse.


:wink:
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 11:22 am
Edelgemuese, eh? Gosh we've covered some ground here :wink:
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 11:59 am
How fast can you cover those two kilometres, Walter?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 12:39 pm
By bike - 5 minutes, I think (have to drive slowly because it's a 30-km-zone!).
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 01:40 pm
With 118 World Cup songs to be released the next days, England is at least there the champion.

Some lines from "Hi Ho England", by 'John Leyton and the Orients':

"Keep the flag of England flying,
We'll be scoring goals, it's so obvious."
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 01:49 pm
Showing flags in the pre-World Cup time (and later):

big issue (Britain's biggest supermarket chain at first had banned flags from their cars ... and made a U-turn) in the UK and title story in today's (London) 'Evening Standard' [photo from the frontpage + page 11]):


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hamburger
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 02:45 pm
england , germany and the rest of europe may have a lot of exitemant over the world soccer matches .
but in canada it's the "stanley cup" for the best north-american hockey team that gets a lot of fans - young AND old exited .
the final game is on june 5 in edmonton/alberta when the 'edmonton oilers' and the 'anaheim ducks' will do battle .
pick up a newspaper , turn on the radio or TV ... hockey is on the agenda !
and downtown edmonton may turn into a battle zone after the game is over , no matter what the outcome . the police have warned the merrymakers that they are ready to arrest anyone causing trouble - there may be more blood in the streets of edmonton than on the hockey rin by the time it's all over .

...CANADA AND THE STANLEY CUP...

oh what fun it will be !
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Edmonton/2006/05/25/edmbloodyfan200.jpg
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 02:49 pm
Ice hockey, asparagus, immigration, Tesco, psychology, international terrorism and heraldry so far...have I missed anything out? :wink:
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 02:54 pm
Sir Matthew ... or didn't he invent theat cup, hamburger was talking about?
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 02:57 pm
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Sir Matthew ... or didn't he invent theat cup, hamburger was talking about?


You're thinking of Accrington
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nimh
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 04:56 pm
ehBeth wrote:
How fast can you cover those two kilometres, Walter?

Should take a bit cos the roads are all bendy, see?

<reading on>

I think Walter's got an ATB...
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nimh
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 05:01 pm
Thomas wrote:
If only you didn't have this peculiar way of illuminating it when you can't find it:
    And the rockets' red glare The bombs bursting in air Affirmed through the night That our flag was still there.

Razz

Thomas wrote:
    Oh say does that star- Sprangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the hoooome of the braaaave?

Twenty bucks if you sing that on the market in Baghdad.

With all your red rocket glare talk, you're the first one ever who's made me free associate the Star Spangled Banner with Sigue Sigue Sputnik...

US bombs cruisin' overhead
There goes my love rocket red
Shoot it up....
Shoot it up....

Blaster bomb bomb bomb ahead
Multi millions still unfed
Amondo teeno givin' head
Shoot it up....
Shoot it up....

Hold me shake me, I'm all shook up
Psycho maniac interblend, shoot it up
Now shoot it up

Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up....

Teenage crime now fashion's dead
Shoot it up
There goes my love rocket red
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up
Shoot it up



(There McTag, now you can add Sigue Sigue Sputnik to your unlikely list ;-))
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 05:13 pm
Walter Hinteler wrote:
By bike - 5 minutes, I think (have to drive slowly because it's a 30-km-zone!).


If I start heating up the grill now, and you get on your bike now, we should be able to have grilled asparagus in about 25 minutes.

Does anyone have some good Schinken?
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hamburger
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 05:17 pm
lord stanley of preston donated the...THE STANLEY CUP... in 1892 (he purchased it for ten guineas - was he perhaps a scots ? ... no , he was just thrifty ).
it was meant to be the trophy for the best canadian hockey team . in later years the americans entered into the league and the trophy has now been presented to american teams more often than to canadian teams .
still , true canadians seem to loose all sense of reality when the 'cup games' are being played .
even 'older ladies' coming to the pool in the morning find nothing more stimulating than to discuss last night's hockey game (perhaps indicating that there was nothing 'more stimulating' the night before ?).
hbg

http://www.hhof.com/graphfea/SCJ_04d.jpg

"...look what we brought home..."
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sumac
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 05:23 pm
Not so fast, Mr. Hamburger. How about the Carolina Hurricanes and the Stanley Cup?
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 05:47 pm
I'd really rather get back to the Freemasons. Smile
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hamburger
 
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Reply Wed 31 May, 2006 06:23 pm
sumac wrote : "How about the Carolina Hurricanes and the Stanley Cup? "

hbg wrote : "...the trophy has now been presented to american teams more often than to canadian teams . "

sumac : i'm no expert at this , but my understanding (see link) is that the stanley cup started out as a trophy for canadian hockey teams , but is now a throphy for (mainly) american teams and canadian teams - if they make it to the playoffs .
sumac , it's quite allright to drop the MR - i'm not likely to address you as
MS/MR sumac , is that agreeable ?
(plain) hbg
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