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Subject: Re: *sigh* does this really need to be discussed further?

Author: Pete R.

Date: 13:19:28 06/26/00

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On June 26, 2000 at 14:52:54, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>Pretty much you're beating a dead horse into little bits and then jumping on the
>bits, right?
>
>(a la Arthur Dent...)
>
>-Tom

Well, since you ask the question...yes, exactly! ;)  But if you had ever seen a
certain individual in question post on r.g.c.c. you would have seen that it
takes a thermonuclear device to keep the same points from coming up over and
over. :)

[cut scene to a soccer game, Germany vs. Italy.  The score is tied at 0-0, a few
seconds remaining when suddenly an Italian player breaks from the pack and makes
a run at the German goalie.  Suddenly at that critical moment the German goalie
slips and falls, the Italian has an easy shot and the entire Italian teams piles
on their man to celebrate the victory.

The German press is anxious to interview German team captain Kasparhoff to
explain the loss...

Kasparhoff: "Well, we were unprepared for the strength of the Italian team, and
our prepartion for this match was ineffective.  We got tired and allowed a final
shot on goal in the final seconds of the critical game. But it's strange that
our goalie slipped and fell just at the critical moment.  Perhaps his wife
needed a new car."

TV-reporter: "What are you saying?!?"

Kasparhoff: "Oh nothing.  But one nevers knows for sure why games go this way."

Kasparhoff was soon forced to retire from the game of soccer due to injuries
inflicted by a mystery assailant.  To this day he bears an imprint of a soccer
cleat in his forehead, coincidentally of a size matching the goalie whose
reputation he impugned years ago, although Kasparhoff insisted he never directly
accused anybody of anything.  Of his reputation for unsportsmanlike conduct, and
a man locked in denial to this day, Kasparhoff says, "Well, really, what proof
do we have that the goalie *didn't* do anything wrong?  Hello?  Hello?  Where
are you going?".   Thus endeth the story.

:))



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