This is beautiful ! Very early on - before I was tapped by a professor who thought my talents lay elsewhere - I thought I was on the road to a career in academia. It's always been "the road not taken" ... thank God.
By the way it is said 12 million people watch the epic UK-US match and many were still awake at the end. Oh, and Robert Green - thank you. <s>
>Not about the world cup but this reminded me of you Kissinger quote.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/09/oxford-poetry-professor-claire>
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>>Besides, sending us "football" is like sending us Benny Hill instead of Smack the Pony.
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>>We want RUGBY ! That is actually a sport that could be very big here.
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>>Besides, they have the best songs.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEF7jSqBTMc>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWFoUsjuTlM&feature=related>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdMCAV6Yd0Y&feature=related>>
>>>Truly you have no soul Charles. If you want instant gratification I recommend an extra spoonful of sugar in your late night hot chocolate.
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>>>Both games where individually relatively poor but in the scheme of things interesting. Especially Frances poor performance and the inability of their manager to react to how things where going. The bringing on of Thierry Henri especially showing a complete lack of imagination. The only problem I see is those bloody trumpets.
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>>>>After all the excitement of yesterdays 1-1 and 0-0 shootouts I'm not sure people with heart conditions should be allowed to watch. ( baseball, however, remains quite safe <g> )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
