Bob.
P.S. I don't think England has a hope of winning the whole thing... ;-)
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> > Scotland 1, Brazil 0.
> >
>
> YAATAICMFP
Eh?
Bob.
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> Scotland 1, Brazil 0.
I saw this program the other night that reckoned that the Brazillian team
was chosen on the basis of their sponsorship deals with Nike rather than
their talent, so you could be in with a chance.
Naich.
p.s. For anyone who knows me outside of cam.misc, this post does not
represent an interest in football, and I intend to keep moaning about how
much football there is on TV :)
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Bob wrote in message <357E3F1B...@sco.com>...
>Scotland 1, Brazil 0.
cam.misc can add surrealism to the long list of things that go on here now,
ie, pedantry, etc.
>P.S. I don't think England has a hope of winning the whole thing... ;-)
neither do us English ;)
Despite the fact that you choose to take the day off, to watch the first
England match in a pub.
Jen
> > > > Scotland 1, Brazil 0.
> > > >
> > >
> > > YAATAICMFP
> >
> > Eh?
>
> You Are A Troll And I Claim My Five Pounds
Troll, TROLL! I was mearly trying to start a wee thread on Scotland's chances
in the big game. Oh well, back under the bridge for me then...
> Bob wrote in message <357E3F1B...@sco.com>...
> >Scotland 1, Brazil 0.
>
> cam.misc can add surrealism to the long list of things that go on here now,
> ie, pedantry, etc.
Surrealism? Nope daydreaming more like...
I am merely going for an afternoon's pubbing. That there is some sort of
football match on at the same time is a coincidence. Anyway, it is also a
birthday celebration so it would be rude not to go. So there :P
Naich.
> On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, J.M. Steers wrote:
>
> > > p.s. For anyone who knows me outside of cam.misc, this post does not
> > > represent an interest in football, and I intend to keep moaning about how
> > > much football there is on TV :)
> >
> > Despite the fact that you choose to take the day off, to watch the first
> > England match in a pub.
>
> I am merely going for an afternoon's pubbing. That there is some sort of
> football match on at the same time is a coincidence. Anyway, it is also a
> birthday celebration so it would be rude not to go. So there :P
Or that's the excuse your giving everyone... ;-)
> Naich.
> p.s. For anyone who knows me outside of cam.misc, this post does not
> represent an interest in football, and I intend to keep moaning about how
> much football there is on TV :)
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> In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.98061...@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>,
> J.M. Steers <jm...@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> Naich.
> >> p.s. For anyone who knows me outside of cam.misc, this post does not
> >> represent an interest in football, and I intend to keep moaning about how
> >> much football there is on TV :)
> >
> >Despite the fact that you choose to take the day off, to watch the first
> >England match in a pub.
>
> Ooh, gossip ;-) (So there are little cliques amongst the cam.miscers,
> then .....)
Either that or very accurate guesses :)
> Naich wrote:
> > I am merely going for an afternoon's pubbing. That there is some sort of
> > football match on at the same time is a coincidence. Anyway, it is also a
> > birthday celebration so it would be rude not to go. So there :P
>
> Or that's the excuse your giving everyone... ;-)
If my mate decides that he wants to celebrate his birthday by watching
football in a pub, I can't really refuse, can I?
I'm hoping that England get knocked out really quickly so people start to
lose interest. I make it a point not to buy anything which is the
"official xxx of the world cup". I just hope that Golden Virginia doesn't
become the official tobacco of the world cup.
I also heard on the radio that if you add together the years that Brazil,
Germany and Argentina won the world cup it comes to 164 for each of
them (i.e. Brazil won it in xx and yy and xx and yy add up to 164 - the
same as Germany's xx+yy and Argentina's xx+yy). England won it in 66 and
164-66=98, so we are going to win it this year.
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Bob <bo...@sco.com> wrote in article <357E3F1B...@sco.com>...
> Scotland 1, Brazil 0.
>
> Bob.
>
> P.S. I don't think England has a hope of winning the whole thing... ;-)
>
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>This reminded me of something I thought last night - why is Carlsberg
>the official beer of the England team? Especially since Denmark is in
>the competition too!
And I wonder how many teams Coke is the official soft drink for...
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Yeah, I've been wondering that too. The conclusion generally reached
was that it must be the stuff which is brewed in England that's the
official beer of the England team ;-)
Apparently this is because of FIFA rules. Something to do with selling
the television rights, I expect.
Unless there's some smart person at the match with a digital video
camera, a GSM phone, and their own site ...
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> This reminded me of something I thought last night - why is Carlsberg
> the official beer of the England team? Especially since Denmark is in
> the competition too!
It's also an offical beer of the Scottish team! The advert on the telly is the same
as the one down here except they have changed the names of the players.
Cheap bastards or what!
Bob.
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> Scotland 1, Brazil 0.
Some prediction that turnned out to be! Brazil 1 - Scotland 0, 5 mins gone...
> I can't find any real audio or video coverage of the match, kick off is in
> 30 minutes!! Strangely, the BBC site doesn't seem to have real audio /
> video coverage which it is usually very good at providing.
There is a live ticker thing at http://www.wldcup.com/ticker/index.html
I'm only watching it because I've got 5 quid on Scotland to win.
Hmm... Brazil 1 Scotland 0 after 5 minutes.
Diego "hand of god" Maradona has retired, hasn't he?
So, someone forced you to have a bet on the Scotland V Brazil match eh!
Jen
In a 'clique' with Naich - dangerous idea :-).....mind you, it's hyis
fault I'm here. Heh heh!
Jen....just miffed cos she's not able to watch the footie tonight.
>Garret Cotter wrote:
>
>> This reminded me of something I thought last night - why is Carlsberg
>> the official beer of the England team? Especially since Denmark is in
>> the competition too!
>
>It's also an offical beer of the Scottish team! The advert on the telly is the same
>as the one down here except they have changed the names of the players.
>Cheap bastards or what!
IIRC, they don't claim to be the official England (or Scotland)
*beer*, the adverts proclaim them as an "official England supporter",
which is, of course, totally meaningless as far as endorsement goes. I
wouldn't be suprised if they are running the same, or similar, advert
in every country where they sell the stuff.
Anyway, Carlsberg is crap. I'm sticking to real beer for the World Cup
(and every other occasion, as it happens).
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>On 10 Jun 1998, Christian Mayne wrote:
>
>> I can't find any real audio or video coverage of the match, kick off is in
>> 30 minutes!! Strangely, the BBC site doesn't seem to have real audio /
>> video coverage which it is usually very good at providing.
>
>There is a live ticker thing at http://www.wldcup.com/ticker/index.html
The Times were proudly proclaiming an up-to-the-minute page on their
website with a constantly updated ticker-tape applet giving the scores
as they happened. But it was still saying "watch this space"
(paraphrased) at half time, whereas the official World CUp site
(http://www.france98.com) had a genuinely minute-by minute update on
the game, complete with updated match stats (shots, corners, etc).
Sky Sports have got a nice site (http://www.sky.co.uk/world-cup/) as
well, but it was so busy today that it was often unreachable.
We were looking for one of those and in the end resorted to periodicaly
pressing the reload button on a not-so-live page (before popping down
after work to the club house to watch the last half on telly). The ticker
on the BBC did not seem to want to update itself automaticaly. Being
behind a firewall doesn't always help on these things.
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I ended up using the Times site which seemed adequate and updated for me
OK, though I noticed that if you try to connect to any other france98 site
by typing in the URL (i.e. any combination of www, france, 98, com, org,
co, uk, fr) it seems to just reload the Times page. This was in IE 3.0,
and others in the office had the same problem, I don't know if this was
just us or have others experienced anything similar?
I also noticed that even when the game had ended, the Match progress
section of www.france98.com only displayed the first 11 minutes of the
match, I assume this was just an updating problem, but I 'refreshed'
several times.
>
> Garret Cotter wrote:
>
> [snipped...]
>
> > This reminded me of something I thought last night - why is Carlsberg
> > the official beer of the England team? Especially since Denmark is in
> > the competition too!
> It's also an offical beer of the Scottish team! The advert on the
> telly is the same as the one down here except they have changed the
> names of the players. Cheap bastards or what!
They also dropped Gascoigne's name from the add about a day after he
was dropped from the team. Now that I found amusing.
Keir (Hup, Nederland, Hup!)
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> They also dropped Gascoigne's name from the add about a day after he
> was dropped from the team. Now that I found amusing.
>
> Keir (Hup, Nederland, Hup!)
ITYM "giddyap!". HTH.
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Keir Finlow-Bates <ke...@harlequin.co.uk> wrote
> > It's also an offical beer of the Scottish team! The advert on the
> > telly is the same as the one down here except they have changed the
> > names of the players. Cheap bastards or what!
>
> They also dropped Gascoigne's name from the add about a day after he
> was dropped from the team. Now that I found amusing.
>
> Keir (Hup, Nederland, Hup!)
But Three Lions '98 (released on Monday) still gives Gazza a name check
(along the lines of "Gazza's on form this year" or something). Badiel and
Skinner must've been *gutted* when he was dropped!
>
> Keir Finlow-Bates <ke...@harlequin.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > They also dropped Gascoigne's name from the add about a day after he
> > was dropped from the team. Now that I found amusing.
> >=20
> > Keir (Hup, Nederland, Hup!)
>
> ITYM "giddyap!". HTH.
Hah, just you wait. In a month or so I'll be walking around saying,
"Do you remember where you were when the Dutch stuffed the English?
Personally I can give you longitude and lattitude."
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> I also noticed that even when the game had ended, the Match progress
> section of www.france98.com only displayed the first 11 minutes of the
> match, I assume this was just an updating problem, but I 'refreshed'
> several times.
>
> Christian
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I just did an altavista search for ``"Three lions on my shirt"
lyrics'', having never heard the song, and got back a song called
"Death" which had lyrics such as "pissing blood no one should ever
have to cut assemble...". I assume that this is not the correct song?
ITISBT. (I'm waiting for the followup `three loins on my shirt').
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Dan Sheppard <da...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in article
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> Christian Mayne <cma...@bcs.org.uk.remove.last.four.words> wrote:
> >But Three Lions '98 (released on Monday) still gives Gazza a name check
> >(along the lines of "Gazza's on form this year" or something). Badiel
and
> >Skinner must've been *gutted* when he was dropped!
>
> I just did an altavista search for ``"Three lions on my shirt"
> lyrics'', having never heard the song, and got back a song called
> "Death" which had lyrics such as "pissing blood no one should ever
> have to cut assemble...". I assume that this is not the correct song?
> ITISBT. (I'm waiting for the followup `three loins on my shirt').
I think those lyrics are on the 12" version ;-)
Here's the lyrics from some unofficial World Cup web site.
(http://members.tripod.com/~John_McClane/3Lions.html)
It's got the lyrics to the 1996 version as well, if you're feeling
particulalrly masochistic
We still believe, We still believe
We still believe
It's coming home, It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
Tears for heroes dressed in grey
No plans for final day
Stay in bed, Drift away
It could have been all
Songs in the street
It was nearly complete
It was nearly so sweet
And now I'm singing
Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
No more years of hurt
No more need for dreaming
Talk about football coming home
And then one night in Rome
We were strong, We had grown
And now I see Ince ready for war
Gazza good as before
Shearer ready to score
And Psycho screaming
Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming
No more years of hurt
No more need for dreaming
We can Dance Nobby's Dance
We can dance it in France
It's coming home' It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
A correct assumption. It's "three lions on a shirt", ie "a", not "my".
Plug that into AV and you should get something useful.
>Mark Goodge <ma...@good-stuff.co.uk> wrote
>>
>> The Times were proudly proclaiming an up-to-the-minute page on their
>> website with a constantly updated ticker-tape applet giving the scores
>> as they happened. But it was still saying "watch this space"
>> (paraphrased) at half time, whereas the official World CUp site
>> (http://www.france98.com) had a genuinely minute-by minute update on
>> the game, complete with updated match stats (shots, corners, etc).
>
>I ended up using the Times site which seemed adequate and updated for me
>OK, though I noticed that if you try to connect to any other france98 site
>by typing in the URL (i.e. any combination of www, france, 98, com, org,
>co, uk, fr) it seems to just reload the Times page. This was in IE 3.0,
>and others in the office had the same problem, I don't know if this was
>just us or have others experienced anything similar?
I had a poke around in the HTML of the Times site, in the hope that I
might be able to pull out the Java ticker-tape applet and run it
directly on my desktop (I've got IE4 with the active desktop thingy),
or insert it into our internal website so that we could keep an eye on
the score in the normal course of work. But it turned out to be a
complete sham - the score was simply hard-coded into the HTML, and
refreshed every 1000 seconds, while all the applet did was animate it.
Well, if it's the same birthday celebration as the one I know of going on
on that day (and from your e-mail address, I think there's a damn good
chance it is), he hardly needs both an England footie match and his
birthday as a reason to go down the pub of an afternoon, now, does he ?
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> Well, if it's the same birthday celebration as the one I know of going on
> on that day (and from your e-mail address, I think there's a damn good
> chance it is), he hardly needs both an England footie match and his
> birthday as a reason to go down the pub of an afternoon, now, does he ?
Sorry I *have* to take offence at this reply... THERE WAS NO ENGLAND
GAME. GoddammitI'llkickyouinthenuts...
Bob.
P.S. I'm just pissed that we didn't get the second penalty...
Calm down. The match I was referrring to is on Monday - England, not the
one just past, which NAich watched on tv. Comfusion all around methinks.
Jen
As was the one I was referring to, so it seems, we [Naich and I] weren't
talking about the same birthday celebration after all, unless Naich watched
the England match under the pretence of celebrating someones birthday as
well.