Re: World Cup Final

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Why are so many players named "Fifa"?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:24 AM
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That was a touching story about the Japanese team. I'm going to watch the first half of Midway so I can get into mindless national chauvinism.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:28 AM
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It's kind of hard to hate on the Japanese.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:37 AM
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Tojo was my grandmother's landlord and he took her security deposit for no reason.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:40 AM
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1: Malcolm Gladwell explained that in Outliers.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:43 AM
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OK, I either hate this tablet or its browser. Could not get it to do the italics tag.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:46 AM
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Did you buy an iPad?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:49 AM
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I wonder how the dames' skirts' broads' dolls' girls' soccer-playing experience in Japan differs from its U.S. counterpart.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:50 AM
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No,trying a Xoom.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:50 AM
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On TV that looked very goal like.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:55 AM
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Damn. Make one of these.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 11:59 AM
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This is very one-sided.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 12:04 PM
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8: more meltdowns.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 12:05 PM
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Football sucks.


Posted by: Merganser | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 12:12 PM
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I rather like football.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 12:13 PM
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So close for Wombat.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 12:16 PM
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We're chatty.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:03 PM
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US lucky--bad offside call, should have been a breakaway.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:06 PM
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Nice shot.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:10 PM
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Is the US up 1-0 anywhere else than my living room? It's a good life.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:13 PM
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Or some other episode. My eyeglasses are probably about to break.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:20 PM
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Shit! Bad breakdown....not that anyone cares.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:22 PM
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I care.


Posted by: Mr. Blandings | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:23 PM
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I think it's just your living room, JP.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:23 PM
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Blandings, Eggplant! I was so scared.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:24 PM
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What's the record for consecutive comments?


Posted by: Mr. Blandings | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:26 PM
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I recall Tweety going for the whole side panel once.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:27 PM
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But


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:32 PM
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he


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:32 PM
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cheated.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:32 PM
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I wouldn't have thought Fox News could surprise me.

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Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:41 PM
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Better.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:52 PM
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She is ahead of the game.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:53 PM
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I guess I'm overtired. That was a really nice nap though.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 1:59 PM
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US D & goalie making it more interesting than it needs to be.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:05 PM
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For instance.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:06 PM
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Oh my god. Damn it.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:06 PM
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Go back to sleep, heebie.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:07 PM
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Bah.


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:09 PM
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I hate pks.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:12 PM
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I knew that my tummy couldn't take this game. I went and ate a pizza. Now, I check in and it is a nail-biter. Ugh.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:15 PM
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Crap.


Posted by: Mr. Blandings | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:17 PM
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arrrrrrrrgh....


Posted by: Merganser | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:18 PM
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You've got to be kidding me.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:18 PM
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badness


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:18 PM
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worseness


Posted by: Mr. Blandings | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:19 PM
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Good lord. This keeper is only 5'2", why are we shooting like this?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:20 PM
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Oh well. Nice shot.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:21 PM
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Feck.


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:22 PM
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Luckily I'm only emotionally invested in sports that are largely domestic.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:27 PM
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I'm not very good at the internet.


Posted by: Pauly Shore | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:44 PM
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The NOTW scandal has just taught me something I probably should have known, that Scotland Yard and the Metropolitan Police are one and the same. I had always assumed Scotland Yard was like the FBI, doing high-level policing exclusively.

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Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:47 PM
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If they have someone capable of high-level policing, why do they need to call so often upon the services of Batman Sherlock Holmes?


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:49 PM
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52: I thought Scotland Yard was the name of the building that came to be used for the institution that uses the building, the same way people say "the House of Representatives" instead of the "Large Group of People Representing a Larger Group of Other People."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 2:54 PM
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Yaah Japan!


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 07-17-11 3:26 PM
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54 is sort of right. Scotland Yard (Street) has buildings on it which have been used for a bunch of stuff over the centuries. The Met was originally located there and became associated with it, but hasn't been there for a hundred years or so. When it moved to its present location that was named New Scotland Yard to create avoid confusion. New Scotland Yard really is the Met HQ and nothing else.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 07-20-11 12:27 AM
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