On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 16:36, Major A wrote: > > Quoted from www.auntymonkey.com, "An Interview with the [Hot Air Balloon] > > World Chamion David Bareford":: > > > > 8. Why is England so good at ballooning but fairly average at every other sport? > > > > England has always been very good at aviation sports but because of > > that they never publicise it in the national press. We have a another > > tradition of inventing sports and beating the world until everyone else > > learns to play it then we end up getting thrashed - we then move on to > > inventing another sport. > > Oh, is that why you invented Rugby after your football team was beaten > 6:3 and 7:1 by Hungary in 1953? :-) > > Andras
Hehe funny :). In reality, Rugby came first in 1823 :). Quite interesting as it was sporting back then to kick someone on the shin...Of course this is a tradition being carried forward by soccer players... Matt PS trying to get back onto some Linux subject, any well known sporting figures using Linux and aren't afraid to say so? Or any well known figures using Linux/FlightGear? > > =========================================================================== > Major Andras > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www: http://andras.webhop.org/ > =========================================================================== > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
