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Joined: March 08 2005
Location: Finland
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 Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:59 |
The sports I'm interested in are mainly football, cycling and tennis. I also watch ice hockey every now and then but it can be rather boring!
Cricket sucks - as does American "football", that has NOTHING to do with FOOTBALL!! 
But have any of you ever watched curling? 
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erlenst
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Location: Denmark
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:31 |
I am actually competing in gymnastics on a pretty high level. No doubt
this is a more progressive sport than, say, football or baseball
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spectral
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:29 |
 BaldFriede wrote:
Snooker is really interesting. |
...as interesting as watching paint dry.
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"...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."
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BaldFriede
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Joined: June 02 2005
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:24 |
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Snooker is really interesting.
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Paradox
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Location: England
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:18 |
i like watching Snooker on TV. 
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Damen
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:09 |
Baseball sucks, notice how when you see a baseball game on TV, there are so many empty seats, because alot of people finally realised baseball sucks. I play tennis on occasion, bowling, and golf, but damned if I would watch those on TV either. 
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"It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days."
-Chris Squire
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Paradox
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 11:03 |
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I would have thought most prog fans would do as little sport as possible.
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Toob-Wurm
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 10:45 |
Gloryscene wrote:
Dick Heath wrote:
jitu wrote:
bed-sport
my favourite 
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Do you change ends half-time?
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Do you touch bottoms at half time?
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Do you even make it to half time.
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As for anyone who said Baseball is boring, all I have to say is this:  !
You're on the right track! Its not that being a woman or european leads you to think baseball is boring, baseball actually IS boring!
Edited by Toob-Wurm
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Gloryscene
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 10:02 |
Dick Heath wrote:
jitu wrote:
bed-sport
my favourite
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Do you change ends half-time?
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Do you touch bottoms at half time?
Edited by Gloryscene
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"The Beautiful Ally Of Your Own Gravediggers"
www.gloryscene.co.uk
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richardh
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 09:59 |
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Cricket has given us the greatest sporting triumph ever:- ''Botham's Ashes'' .The famous test match when England followed on and with odds of 500-1 managed to win! Nothing will ever beat that.I am also a football fan and go to watch my team Wolves about 10-12 times a year.Football wins most of the time but the latest Ashes series is one of the best ever and is holding the attention of many people who normally couldn't give a monkeys.What's this all got to do with prog? NOTHING!! Sport and Art have little in common anyway.
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spectral
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Joined: May 04 2005
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 09:54 |
Dick Heath wrote:
jitu wrote:
bed-sport
my favourite
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Do you change ends half-time?
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Dick, you dirty old dick!
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"...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."
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Dick Heath
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Joined: April 19 2004
Location: England
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 09:53 |
jitu wrote:
bed-sport
my favourite
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Do you change ends half-time?
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spectral
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 09:39 |
Citanul wrote:
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner... You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
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  ...someone wake me when this is over!
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"...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."
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Drachen Theaker
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 09:37 |
Citanul wrote:
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner... You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
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"It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt
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Citanul
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:41 |
BaldJean wrote:
yet I can't understand why my former countrymen (and some women
too) are so fond of the ABSOLUTELY BORING sport baseball! maybe it's because I'm a woman.
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I've only ever watched one baseball game, I found that boring. On
the other hand, I like cricket, and some people find that boring.
RaphaelT wrote:
And about prog and cricket (the rules are really simple, as one of my English native speakers' once said) - look at the cover of Nursery Cryme by Genesis |
That's actually croquet on the Nursery Cryme cover.
Some of you may have seen this before, but I'll post it anyway:
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in
the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next
man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out
comes in and the side thats been in goes
out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still
in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him
out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out
and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the
time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides
have been out twice after all the men have been in,
including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
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Be or be not. There is no question. - Yoda, Prince of Denmark
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BaldJean
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:27 |
I am American by birth and lived in the USA for the first 24 years of my life, before I went to Germany bcause of a job offer. yet I can't understand why my former countrymen (and some women too) are so fond of the ABSOLUTELY BORING sport baseball! maybe it's because I'm a woman.
American football is fine though; I am a Raiders fan.
but my favorite sport is tennis (I was a huge fan of Steffi). Friede and I often play tennis, and it is anyone's match between us; we are both equally bad at it  . but we have fun playing!
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Chipiron
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Location: Spain
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:18 |
Football (Soccer), Tennis, Skiing...
Not too complex at all...
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RaphaelT
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Location: Poland
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:16 |
I simply love football (btw why Wisła had to defeat to Panathinaikos in Champions' League Qualifiers) and prog.
These two come together wery well nevertheless, because in book "Close To The Edge A Story Of Yes" by Chris Welch I saw a photo of Yes United (various members of Yes(Rick, Alan and Jon) and their staff, including famous manager Brian Lane making a football team). Since I borrow the book I can't send that picture, sorry.
About prog and football I shall quote Roger Taylor of Queen (I agree, it's not prog but good quote though) "Only football gives us thrills, rock'n'roll just pays the bills")
And about prog and cricket (the rules are really simple, as one of my English native speakers' once said) - look at the cover of Nursery Cryme by Genesis
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yet you still have time!
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Scrambled_Eggs
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Location: United States
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 07:51 |
My favorite sport is easily hockey. It's very entertaining to watch and even more fun to play. Thankfully, there will be a season of the NHL this year. Last year, there was no sport to watch in the winter except basketball. 
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And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime.
I never said I was frightened of dying.
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 07:27 |
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I líke monothonic and solitary sports, like swimming, running etc.
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