A few of my favorite European things.

[dZeus]

sorry..

Then I change my statement to that "(ice-)Hockey is a cool North American-thingie".

However, as you say, it also is very populair in Scandinavia/Russia... that makes it "It is a very cool sport" wherever played... (however I can't imagine what a south-african team would play like).


I really, really don't understand why skating is more populair than (ice-)hockey... skating is _so_ boring to watch...

[agallag]

You said it dZeus, figure skating is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Hockey is one of the best spectator sports around.

I don't understand why other variations don't catch on, like field hockey (very competitive and violent ), and Lacrosse (also very competitive, but much more violent ) I went to almost all of our Lacrosse team's games last year. What a great sport!

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I will not torment the emotionally frail

[dZeus]

I don't understand why other variations don't catch on, like field hockey (very competitive and violent

My younger brother plays for the Dutch National Youth field hockey-team (while he doesn't even has the Dutch nationality ). I myself am not that fond of field-hockey...

Also, I forgot to tell in my earlier post:

I really, really don't understand why skating is more populair than (ice-)hockey... skating is _so_ boring to watch...

more populare over here

[This message has been edited by dZeus (edited 08 October 2000).]

[paulcs]

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[Wombat]

This always struck me as odd:
In Europe, field hockey is a largely a men's sport. In the US, it's almost exclusively a girl's sport.

[dZeus]

what about soccer (which we call football)?

That is a men sport almost in any country except in the USA and Canada....

[Wombat]

Soccer is both a men's and women's sport here. It's just that on their respective international scales, our women are much better than our men.

[Sisyfos]

Conclusion:
All European men are gay...uhm that didn't come out right...NO, here it is: All American women are lesbian...darn it, what about Elisabeth Mastrantonio??? NOOOO, can't be.
Well, conclude what you want I'm just PUI (damn fine red wine, I must say).

[Wombat]

That was one of the most incoherent things I've heard on here since Space7 left. LOL!

[Joel]

Hey Hunsow,

Quite a few years back the local PBS station use to air an episode every Saturday night. I have some of them still on tape. I have also read quite a few of the books. The English may not have a lot on spacial effects but they do put a hell of alot into the storyline.

I'm just hoping one day that they will put them out on DVD.

Joel

[LAMFDTK]

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[Hunsow]

Doctor Who DVD's are coming, just read this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/features/dvd.shtml

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[Joel]

I sure hope they look at the market across the big pond too. Cool! Thanks!

Joel

[Paddy]

brie


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[HedsSpaz]

The reason that Canada is so good at hocket is because they have in abundance the natural resource most imporant for playing the sport...
...
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...Canadians!!!

For those of you who might know, yes I ripped that joke straight from the act of some Canadian comedian who's name eludes me at the moment.

I love Red Dwarf. What a great show. Have any of you seen the outtake where they are at this Sci-Fi convention and they are on stage answerign questions about the show? There's this little girl of about 9 I would geuss who asks Lister what "smeg" means... It's pretty funny, I think its from outtakes 2.