>>>And rugby players are just about as insane as it's possible to get, in team sports, alongside ice hockey players (and I believe lacrosse is viscious)
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>>Ah, the awful combination of vicious and viscous... that's tough!
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>Oops - I thought over the distinction as I wrote it - and STILL wrote viscious! :-)
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>Now, as you've got me on a linguistic nerve: "...didn't even blink as the man poured it weekend after weekend ..."
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>I think you meant "spouted it"

That's better, thanks. Though it did sound like a downpour.