Rugby - Ball's Out!

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Tamerlin


Unfortunately it was in the famous Midi Olympique a few weeks ago, I don't know if I have kept the newspaper.

But it is indeed a good news for the american Rugby.

Rugby has been growing at the grass-roots level here for quite a while. Major sponsorship is a good next step.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Tamerlin


Unfortunately it was in the famous Midi Olympique a few weeks ago, I don't know if I have kept the newspaper.

Know anyone with a bird in a cage? They'll have a copy. Lining the bottom of the cage, with the content vastly improved via the bird's contributions.

[Havak]

Ouch – with a casual tap of the fingers Finbar condemns French journalism as Budgie bathroom fodder.

but you are also so idle at work that you have the time to study the profile of your fellow posters. Isn't your company looking for a native French speaker?

We already have several but if any more positions open up I’ll let you know.

I didn’t check his profile – there was another thread coughing up the fact it was his birthday. So a belated happy birthday for Tuesday Finbar.

Fine thank you, I think I will have a permission this week-end. Why?

The unbounded optimimisim about Les Bleus gave away the use of pharmacology that’s all.

These are the beverages the bartenders keep in stock for the poor strangers visiting our beautiful country.

I had the odd bottle of wine as well. Some very odd.

I can't tell you, I only know Toulouse's Frog and Rosbiff.

That’s the only other genuine Frog and Rosbiff I think – the rest of the chain is ‘Frog and British Library’ and other such witty names.

Now I can understand the importance placed in toilets...

Mrs finbar, typically, thoughtfully, gave me a Mont Blanc pen, one of the new ones with a fibre tip-style nib

Tool of the trade type gifts – nice. Can’t say the dog’s gifts were surprising – looking at their own dress sense that is.

Sounds to me like a round about way of acknowledging England were a one man team, and, without that man, they're rooted.

I can see how it might read that way if you squint in poor light.

There’s not too much wrong – all that is needed really is to ditch all the Gloucester players and a few selected Wasps and Bath players and we will be right up there again – excepting the search to replace the skipper as that is harder.

*edit*
Basic maths:

Seven Tigers in RWC squad = world beating team.
Four Tigers in total during 6N, only two clocking serious game time = total **** up.

Lets hope Clive can do maths!

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by finbar

Know anyone with a bird in a cage? They'll have a copy. Lining the bottom of the cage, with the content vastly improved via the bird's contributions.

An australian criticizing the French press... well it is as if "l'hôpital se moquait de la charité" (hospital were moking charity).

I had the odd bottle of wine as well. Some very odd.

I agree with you, some can be very... odd, especially in a bar. I imagine a bartender sees the English supporters coming in his bar from a very long distance and prepares the bottles of wine accordingly.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Havak
Ouch – with a casual tap of the fingers Finbar condemns French journalism as Budgie bathroom fodder.

No, no. Only this Midi Olympique rag that Tamerlin seems to devour from cover to cover, quoting it as reporting that Australia was trying to outlaw contested scrums, yet still unable actually to cite the relevant text.

I didn’t check his profile – there was another thread coughing up the fact it was his birthday. So a belated happy birthday for Tuesday Finbar.

Another year younger, another year sillier!

Can’t say the dog’s gifts were surprising – looking at their own dress sense that is.

Pathetic individuals they are. Caught them looking up the Midi Olympique online. "If it's good enough for Tamerlin, it's good enough for us", they said. I rest my case.

*edit*
Basic maths:

Seven Tigers in RWC squad = world beating team.
Four Tigers in total during 6N, only two clocking serious game time = total **** up.

Lets hope Clive can do maths!

Let me adjust your equation to accord with the facts:

Six so-so Tigers + one Giant Of The Game Who Carried The Other Fourteen Players = world beating team.

Team consisting of as many Tigers as you care to choose, or, in fact, of anyone you care to choose, minus Giant Of The Game Who Carried The Other Fourteen Players = total **** up.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Tamerlin
An australian criticizing the French press... well it is as if "l'hôpital se moquait de la charité" (hospital were moking charity).

I will merely point out, yet again, that only Americans spell criticise with a z.

I imagine a bartender sees the English supporters coming in his bar from a very long distance and prepares the bottles of wine accordingly.

Yep. Pierre le bartender sees Havak enter. Pierre grabs an empty bottle, pops out to the WC Turc, a zip is heard to unfasten, and sixty seconds later Havak is making a mental note to post here about the oddness of French wine.

[Havak]

I imagine a bartender sees the English supporters coming in his bar from a very long distance and prepares the bottles of wine accordingly.

We are actually very knowledgeable about wine. We know that there is both red and white for example.

quoting it as reporting that Australia was trying to outlaw contested scrums, yet still unable actually to cite the relevant text.

A man after my own heart! It is very unfair of you to make us substantiate the wild unattributed quotes we make.

Another year younger, another year sillier!

Amen to that!

I feel Tamerlin may enjoy being compared to OESDs (albeit of noble character if limited IQ). I feel an cascade coming on?

Team consisting of as many Tigers as you care to choose, or, in fact, of anyone you care to choose, minus Giant Of The Game Who Carried The Other Fourteen Players = total **** up.

Further irony – that giant states in his autobiography that all the talk about the difference he made to England was ludicrous as “one man cannot make that much difference to a side”. M’Lud the jury politely disagrees.

My serious view is that the team had other world class players – Neil Back certainly, Hill when played at Six, Wilko (lest we forget) and Ben Cohen too I would say. Even Lewis Moody (watch the build up to that drop goal again and see who scares Rogers on his clearance and then takes the line out ball) although he just cannot stay fit these days.

Interestingly for Tigers trip to Newcastle on Sunday Benny Kay has been put on the bench – Louis Deacon is playing so well he is keeping Kay from starting. Deacon is a name for Englands future – wonder if he will be a ‘once in a generation player’?

Pierre grabs an empty bottle, pops out to the WC Turc, a zip is heard to unfasten, and sixty seconds later Havak is making a mental note to post here about the oddness of French wine.

Hmm I thought the colour of that house red was a little off!

[Caligastia]

Happy Birthday from me too Finbar. You got a thread? I didn't see it.

I never get a thread...

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Havak
A man after my own heart! It is very unfair of you to make us substantiate the wild unattributed quotes we make.

Very unfair indeed!

I feel Tamerlin may enjoy being compared to OESDs...

Who or what? :wary:

... (albeit of noble character if limited IQ).

I suppose you are talking about the said OESDs.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Caligastia
Happy Birthday from me too Finbar. You got a thread? I didn't see it.

Yeah, yeah, happy birthday and so on...



Don't expect me to send you a present, I have a very good memory...

I never get a thread...

[finbar]

Originally posted by Havak
We are actually very knowledgeable about wine. We know that there is both red and white for example.

Or, if you're in a hurry to get to the match, you pour one into the other and call it Havak's Rosé.

I feel Tamerlin may enjoy being compared to OESDs (albeit of noble character if limited IQ).

Yes, sometimes I look at Dermott and have to believe it's Tamerlin - loveable, buffoon-ish nature; prone to farting through the night; squats because he can't hold his balance when he cocks his leg; pores (or, indeed, paws) over the Midi Olympique; cultivating his own dope plants amongst my tomatoes ...

Further irony – that giant states in his autobiography that all the talk about the difference he made to England was ludicrous as “one man cannot make that much difference to a side”. M’Lud the jury politely disagrees.

Yeah well, add modesty to his list of achievements. It's crap, of course.

My serious view is that the team had other world class players – Neil Back certainly, Hill when played at Six, Wilko (lest we forget) and Ben Cohen too I would say. Even Lewis Moody (watch the build up to that drop goal again and see who scares Rogers on his clearance and then takes the line out ball) although he just cannot stay fit these days.

Back, a year or so ago, yes; Wilkinson, obviously. I'm not convinced about Cohen. Obviously talented, but he doesn't produce the goods often enough. Regardless, it's a short-ish list, only underlining J****'s import.

Hmm I thought the colour of that house red was a little off!

Red? Cripes, Pierre must've been on a beetroot diet.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Caligastia
Happy Birthday from me too Finbar. You got a thread? I didn't see it.

I never get a thread...

I got two! One here in the OT forum, one in the Civ 2 MP forum.



Actually, I think I'd probably have too much time on my hands if I started trawling through the site's birthday list.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Tamerlin


Yeah, yeah, happy birthday and so on...

Pretty much what Mrs finbar said to me on Tuesday morning.

Don't expect me to send you a present, I have a very good memory...

I'm going to send you one! A book I'm about to write for you: American Spelling The Lazy Way (And How To Avoid It)!

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by finbar


Pretty much what Mrs finbar said to me on Tuesday morning.

This woman is too good for you...

I'm going to send you one! A book I'm about to write for you: American Spelling The Lazy Way (And How To Avoid It)!

The problem is that I am reading too many american books.

Yes, sometimes I look at Dermott and have to believe it's Tamerlin - loveable, buffoon-ish nature; prone to farting through the night; squats because he can't hold his balance when he cocks his leg; pores (or, indeed, paws) over the Midi Olympique; cultivating his own dope plants amongst my tomatoes ...

I wish I had a garden.

Or, if you're in a hurry to get to the match, you pour one into the other and call it Havak's Rosé.

This is pretty much the way the Vin Rosé is produced... and that explains why I am almost never drinking some Rosé, a good red wine is far better IMO.

Red? Cripes, Pierre must've been on a beetroot diet.

How do you know my kid likes beetroot?


That makes me wonder if he is really my son by the way.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Tamerlin


This woman is too good for you...

Funnily enough, that's what she tells me every day.

The problem is that I am reading too many american books.

Two suggestions: (1) Stop it! Or, failing that: (2) take your crayon de couleur and change every z - when substituted for s - to an s when you come across one. Guaranteed to cure your appalling habit. BTW, this method is especially recommended for books borrowed from libraries!

I wish I had a garden.

I haven't got enough so you're not getting any of mine!

How do you know my kid likes beetroot?

Fresh beetroot, hopefully, and not that tinned muck!

That makes me wonder if he is really my son by the way.

How many times have I told you! Get a DNA test done!

On a related note, Kiwi ref Paddy O'Brien has apparently written a book. He reports this exchange between French ref Didier Mene and an unnamed Springbok:

Mene chastises the player.

PLAYER: "F*ck you!"

MENE: "What did you say?"

PLAYER: "I said, 'F*ck you!'"

MENE: "Huh! I'll decide who f*cks me. You're off!"