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AU CANADA!!

Hey Max! I did that earlier but I don't know how to use that c in a circle thingie ... oh, well, happy to share with you and that at least you "got it."


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>congrats to the UK curlers

So exciting, as Bel says, right to the last thingy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/curling/newsid_1835000/1835582.stm. We are all now such experts and can discuss all the finer points of the sport - "steals", "those big round heavy thingamies", "those nifty little brushes" - yes, our first gold since Torvil and Dean's "Bolero" - does anyone other than the British remember them?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1551000/1551196.stm
I stayed awake for the 11.30pm final stone but chickened out of the 3am medal ceremony. Congratulations to Canada for bringing home a bronze after a close semi-final and sorry to Switzerland who were so close to gold in the final.

With our other medal (bronze) in the skeleton (or other new favourite sport)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/
luge_and_skeleton/newsid_1835000/1835111.stm
(delete the return in the middle which I added to stop it going wide)we get our biggest haul of medals since the 1930s (sad isn't it? - I hadn't realised that our sights were set so low, we'd better get better at influencing the judges!!)http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/features/newsid_1833000/1833017.stm


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I know Michigan is a long way away from upstart [sic] NY, but.

Quickest, and shortest way from Buffalo to Lansing is straight across Ontario, Canada! So I get to cross into and out of Canada on my way there and back. Get to go through customs a grand total of four times! Don't know how it will be for you two, if you will take the southern route round Lake Erie, but for me, it's through the home of the Gold Medal Canadians!


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Hi bel! Hi Bean! We'll see ya on the ice on Sunday! 2:30 sharp!

(Bring your hankies, you'll need 'em! Once is enough!...Mario Lemieux who?)

Good Luck! Enjoy! May the best team win!
I'm just sorry that you have to lose this one!


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Max: in accord with the Shar'ia I have cut my own hand off.

Don't do it, Max; we need you to type! If you cut off your hand as punishment, it would be a clear case of your plagairism victimizing your public!


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Jo, curling may be a lot of things, but exciting? The New Zealanders were going to send a team, but when they went to practice on the Ida Dam they lost their stones in the water. They'd got the curling and the whisky-drinking in the wrong order and forgot the ice bit.

As for the skeleton bobsleigh, I'm finally coming around to the notion that Richard Dworkin's selfish gene theory may hold some water, but doesn't go far enough. I prefer the stupid gene theory, meownself. Sliding down a hill on half a tea tray at 100kmh ... yeah, right!



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Oooooo, W'ON that sounds like a challenge to me. You better be careful, you're talking to two women who know what an off-side is.

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Oh, I forgot to answer you before about my use of goaler instead of goalie. You caught me in an anglicism - an incorrect turn of phrase appropriating words belonging to the English language.

Before the "Office of the French language" came marching into power, English words were often used to describe items...tire (instead of pneu), muffler (silencieux), puck (rondelle), goal (but).

In French, to describe the person who is doing an action, the suffix "eur" is added - thus goaleur came into existence and subsequently slangily said as goaler. We should actually use gardien de but, however it is sometimes hard to break bad habits. Shhhhh - the Office would be seriously ticked off if they knew


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Shhhhh - the Office would be seriously ticked off if they knew

(pianisimo) ssshhhh ... watch out for the Word Perlice -- they're everywhere. [looking nervously over shoulder -e]


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Max, darling man! No No No ... stop at once ...
but if you've already done it,
call on me anytime to lend you a hand.


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