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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