Or summarised.. "two world wars and one world cup"

I wish Germany played football like they play tennis. :)
On Feb 4, 2013 10:12 AM, "Eric Jablow" <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:59:59 PM UTC-5, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Mark Haniford <markha...@gmail.**com>
>>  wrote:
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>>> Simon is german so his people are used to insulting and doing much worse
>>> things to people.
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>> And yet you managed to outdo him in just one sentence (and I'm not
>> talking about quoting an entire digest for a one line answer, which in
>> itself is reason enough for an old fashioned e-pillory).
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>> Cédric
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>> It's an old tradition.  Consider the famous newspaper lead on the 1966
> World Cup:
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> "If, on the morrow, the Germans beat us at our national game, we’d do well
> to remember that, twice this century, we have beaten them at theirs."
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> Eric
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