He he :-) I thought we had got yet another gauge into this thread :-)
Jim
Narow gauge scale
Jan 07, 2006
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Silly me, I thought you were completely anglicised, must pay more attention.
Ken.
Nah, I'm a half-baked Brit. Mostly Welsh, Irish and Scots on my mother's side, thoroughly Mitteleuropaeisch on my father's side. And thoroughly Canajun, eh, after living here for over 55 years. I even think hockey is more important than politics. :-)
I wasn't aware that Canadians played hockey - how do you fare against the Indians and Pakistanis?
Regards, Greg.P.
Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
Isn't "hockey" Canajun-speak for a right royal punch-up?
In England, that sort of thing goes under the name "football".
Are you referring to chasing a ball around a grassy field, while waving oddly shaped clubs in a threatening manner at your opponents? My mother played that game, so she told me, and she was a mean shin-slasher, too, she said.
But hockey it ain't.
Hah!
[...]
Surely not the genteel sport of Association Football!
Oh, I forgot: you meant amongst the spectators.... :-)
Hockey fans are models of gentlemanly and ladylike decorum.
Truly!
:-)
Yes it is. Ice hockey is a much more recent invention.
_Ice_ hockey????
_Field_ hockey, yes, that has to be specified. It's played by people who don't have hockey rinks.
Poor, deprived sods.
:-)
Compared to the players...
It's been hockey for hundreds of years - it's played internationally - unlike yank ICE-hockey.
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