#58085
02/22/2002 8:24 PM
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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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#58086
02/22/2002 10:13 PM
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#58088
02/22/2002 11:00 PM
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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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#58089
02/23/2002 1:14 AM
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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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#58090
02/23/2002 1:52 AM
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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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#58091
02/23/2002 3:36 AM
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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!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#58092
02/23/2002 3:51 AM
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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. ************************************************************************************* 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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#58093
02/23/2002 4:32 AM
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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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#58094
02/23/2002 12:39 PM
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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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#58095
02/23/2002 5:56 PM
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>Jo, curling may be a lot of things, but exciting? Well it is quite simple - check out the medals table - any of the sports which gave us a gold medal are exciting all those which did not are less exciting - how many gold medals did New Zealand collect so far ? Fully agree on the tea-tray - weird sport! Anyway, honest it may have been the late-night-jet-lagged-alcohol-inspired-stupor but it was exciting! You know we've just gone round inventing all these sports and international competitions over the years so that other countries can beat us. At least we managed to win once at one of the sports we invented (one day we'll win Wimbledon or the Rugby World Cup or The British Open ...drifts off muttering) - I'm going to make the most of it before we get thrashed in the Commonweath Games in Manchester in a couple of months, then we'll be back to watching the Kenyans zip past us as usual.  PS I'm gobsmacked! Won't trouble y'all with another post but I've just seen that Alain Baxter won our first ever medal in an alpine skiing event - the bronze in the slalom - now ... weren't we supposed to have invented the sport of downhill skiing .. or was it just the package ski holiday ... whatever - it is quite amazing ... http://www.olympics.com/x/f/frame.htm?u=http%3A//www.olympics.com/ats/as/as_history_origin.html&s=sloc
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#58096
02/24/2002 1:32 AM
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Congratulations on Baxter's winning bronze in men's skiing! That was a shocker, I'm betting  .
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#58097
02/24/2002 1:43 AM
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Oh no!  Ohno disqualified and the Korean champ did not advance in the 500, either.
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#58098
02/24/2002 2:05 AM
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old hand
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Hi bel! Hi Bean! We'll see ya on the ice on Sunday! 2:30 sharp! W'ON, I don't know what time zone you're in, b'y, but that would be 4:30 sharp in Newfoundland, or 1:00 sharp in Salt Lake City. But I don't think there's ANY time zone where the game starts at 2:30! Good luck b'ys! To both teams!
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#58099
02/24/2002 5:07 AM
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how many gold medals did New Zealand collect so far ? New Zealand just doesn't have the people participating to be able to foot it with anyone in winter sports. I think our best chance was at the last Winter Olympics when Annaliese Coburger got into one of the downhill skiing finals. My memories of curling on the Naseby and Ida Dams are from a long, long time ago, and it allus seemed to be very old men wearing tam o'shanters (sp?), woollen trousers and hob-nailed boots staggering and slithering around the ice after the stones with whisky bottle in one hand, broom in the other, completely bladdered. Personally, I've reduced that to its lowest common denominator. I just get bladdered, and that's a sport for all year round.
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#58100
02/24/2002 10:09 AM
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Well, in addition to Saints-In-Waiting Steven Bradbury and Alisa Camplin (to strains of the Olynpic Fanfare), my nextest favourite is the US gal that won the skeleton.
She appeared as a special guest on The Ice Dream which, as Hev has mentioned, is a huge rating show here.
I'm entranced - great sense of (impish) humour, a ready smile and, above all, not on "the star trip".
stales
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#58102
02/24/2002 3:49 PM
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I really am trying hard not to be a Pooh Bah! I'd rather be a Yum Yum!
However many, Jo, you will always be be a Pritty Sing too.
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#58103
02/24/2002 9:06 PM
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Ohhh W'ON, (hee,hee,hee,hee) We WON!!!
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#58104
02/24/2002 11:18 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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>We WON!!! May I be the first to congratulate you - well done!
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#58105
02/24/2002 11:22 PM
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#58106
02/25/2002 12:56 AM
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I *know* - 50 years, dang, I wasn't even born the last time a gold medal came home.
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#58107
02/25/2002 2:11 AM
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bel, until you said that I hadn't fully realized how wow must have felt with the Superbowl. Felitcitations!
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#58108
02/25/2002 8:43 PM
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I just picked this up from ESPN's Page 2, and I rescind my previous remarks - I didn't know there was an alternate judge!!
THUMBS UP ... for the controversy with the
French and Russian judges. Nothing beats a good
controversy with a happy ending, even if they
copped out by giving both the Canadian team and the
Russians gold medals. Why not remove the French
judge, institute the alternate judge's marks,
reconfigure the scoring and see who wins. Isn't that
why they have alternate judges? This really peeved
me for some reason.
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