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Re: Sports scores redux( Re: For Sean...
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Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:06:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> When did this become off-topic.sports? :-)
Back when it changed from off-topic.debate.

> Maybe these footie scores (or whatever they are) belong in off-topic.fun, if
> anywhere?
Possibly...

But they could be debates...

> Call me grumpy (the tiggers are 1 and 18 or something ridiculous, and the
> Wings got eliminated in 4 straight, so I don't even mildly care about my
> home teams at the moment), but if there's anything to debate here it's the
> notion that sports beyond ones you participate in yourself are anything to
> actually care about.
HA!  THE DUCKS SWEPT THE RED WINGS! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

oops, sorry, that slipped out there ; )

> Me, I'll go to a game and have fun but I just don't care about it much and
> I'd even venture that people who DO care are somehow fundamentally different
> than me.
Well, im fundamentally different then.  Probably has something to do
with bein' 14 and having a mind that thinks politics are boring as
heck and sports are the best thing mankind has made...

> I care about my kids and the real problems of the world.
> 
> Oh, and toys like LEGO and games and SF and anime and stuff... you know,
> important stuff.
Oh, that includes (to me at least) family, religon, lego, sports, school,
and plenty of other things I should better leave off ; )

Hasta la Vista, Sean



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  Re: Sports scores redux( Re: For Sean...
 
(...) Actually, you've identified the primary problem with the US population at the moment. Dave! (24 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Sports scores redux( Re: For Sean...
 
(...) <snip> When did this become off-topic.sports? :-) Maybe these footie scores (or whatever they are) belong in off-topic.fun, if anywhere? Call me grumpy (the tiggers are 1 and 18 or something ridiculous, and the Wings got eliminated in 4 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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