I meant the Swinton Lions, of course - no one could fantasise the Detroit pride making the final! On Saturday, December 13, 2014 1:57:57 AM UTC, archytas wrote: > > Hugo also said something to the effect that human life comes after > ideology. In my alien world education is everywhere and there are no > schools or universities. Warrington still win the cup and thrash the Lions > in Extra Bowl, refusing to play in helmets and padding (though I am aided > by my Zimmer frame at quarterback in that one)! > > On Saturday, December 13, 2014 1:10:33 AM UTC, Molly wrote: >> >> The end is nigh has always been. The sky is falling. There is a truth >> there always that we look away from because it is too painful, but that >> makes it none the less true. Zero Hedge gets it right enough to make us >> wonder. >> >> On Friday, December 12, 2014 7:00:55 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote: >>> >>> When we first started playing rugby league on Sundays, thinking we'd get >>> better crowds than competing with soccer on Saturdays, various sandwich >>> board clad men wandered amongst the queuing crowds warning us 'the end is >>> nigh'. Technically, you got in free, paying the entrance fee for a >>> programme. Junior tickets were three old pence and six of these coins >>> would get you a bad hair cut at Brian Bevan's barber shop near where I >>> caught the bus to school. Bevan scored 800 tries as the Walter Peyton plus >>> of the day. >>> >>> I guess the equivalent of the 'end is nigh' merchants today is 'Occupy' >>> or the libertarian Zerohedge site. Rugby league was so popular after WW2 >>> that more people could be locked out of Warrington - Wigan games than get >>> in to the 40,000 capacity grounds. 109,000 got in to see Warrington beat >>> Halifax in the Challenge Cup Final replay of 1954. These days it is a >>> minor sport. Our economy is going the same way, though few seem to >>> understand. >>> >>> Victor Hugo once said - Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes >>> monsters. >>> >>> We should be seeking a prosperity for all, yet our slogan remains >>> 'jawbs, groaf, burn the planet'. One can imagine a Facilitator sculpture >>> of an ostrich with its head buried in the sand displaying this on a >>> sandwich board carried on its nether regions. Any one else with such a >>> vision of 'modernity'? >>> >>
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