Sounds like the beginning of an episode of Soap hehehe... -----Original Message----- From: Medic [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 4:27 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: The footie starts tomorrow!
No, it was always the World Cup. It's just that when you won the world cup you won the Rimet Trophy. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > > So they changed the actual award to a trophy from a cup and the name to Cup > from a trophy...that's funny hehehe > > -----Original Message----- > From: Medic [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 5:39 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: The footie starts tomorrow! > > > It used to be a cup from the 30's to the 70's. It was called the Rimet > Trophy back then. It's got an interesting history and a lot of politics > behind it over the years. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_Trophy#Jules_Rimet_Trophy > > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Why is the trophy for the World Cup not a cup, or even a reasonable > > facsimile thereof? > > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Ras Tafari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > there is nothing like the feeling of hitting the upper right corner > from > > > about 30yrds out, and running back > > > to your teammates... NOTHING. > > > > > > i played for well over 18 years, and to this day, no other sport > > compares... > > > not even golf. > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> The only cure for that attitude is one thing: Play footie for a year > or > > >> two. > > >> The reason it's so popular everywhere in the world is because everyone > > >> plays > > >> it. Once you've tried to strike on a half volley while in full sprint > > with > > >> a > > >> defender going shoulder to shoulder with you it will become clear > > exactly > > >> why it's the beautiful game. > > >> > > >> Or another possible solution for American viewers would be to overlay > on > > >> screen graphics of explosions and missles and shit every time a player > > >> touches the ball. :p > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:321088 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
