Oh, I've heard Maverick speak and he doesn't sound anything like our assistant principal. Maverick's accent--whatever it is and whatever the influences of wherever he's lived--is very, very pure without high-energy vowels, as I'd describe our assistant principal. Mav' isn't Welsh, is he? I thought he was English.

Oh, well. I suppose today is the day I might get this all straight...


Edit: And I think the rivalry exists without knowing or believing it exists simply because the rivalry is spoken of here--but this is the length and breadth of my experience of the rivalry. So I also wonder how much there is to the rivalry. However, it will be so much more fun to read the comments now that I have Cap and Max in one corner and you, hev, and Stales in the other, not that we hear from Stales too much these days though I wish he'd return!