Wednesday, June 11, 2008
More on Euro 2008!
Euro 2008 continues, with today being "funny hat day." This comment about Euro '08 from RFDIII a few posts down was so intriguing that I had to bring it up to its own post:
I love Euro! I love the annual grudge match between Germany and France. The pomp! The ceremony! Each year, the players line up facing each other and, in a great universal message of sportsmanship, the French players lie on their backs. The German players then take the soccer ball and walk in single file down the Champs Elysees, shaded by those beautiful oaks planted so many years earlier by the French government to shade the Germans coming into Paris (which, I understand, happens quite regularly).
Ah, there's nothing like it.
Tomorrow at Euro 2008 is "biting day," where people from different European countries bite each other in several categories of competition (Tyson-style, erotic, freestyle, etc.).
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Osler, what are you talking about????
I am thinking maybe you are being held hostage by the French, which means you can only talk in code. So if you can read this, work the word BATTLESHIP into a sentence to let us all know if you are not safe.
SO If your next post has the word BATTLESHIP in it, we will know that you are indeed a French Hostage, and that we should send law students to rescue you immediately.
AuRevoir.
I am thinking maybe you are being held hostage by the French, which means you can only talk in code. So if you can read this, work the word BATTLESHIP into a sentence to let us all know if you are not safe.
SO If your next post has the word BATTLESHIP in it, we will know that you are indeed a French Hostage, and that we should send law students to rescue you immediately.
AuRevoir.
Hard for them but yes they can. Here is how it works:
They typically pull up behind you in a Citroen or Peugeot and coax you into the car with chocolate croissant and convince you that they know a restaurant that serves lunch for under $85 per person excluding gratuity. You have to stand up and eat the lunch, but they promise no one will make fun of how you switch your fork back to your right hand when you consume said lunch. Thrilled, you get in the car.
After the car dies, you are escorted, handcuffed and blindfolded in Hermes on Le Metro to a secret location. You will be held in an invisible box by a Mime Extremist, who acts out what will happen to you if you try to escape. You are not sure exactly what he is doing as you watch him in terror; drinking coffee? running against the wind? or playing soccer - but you are terrified so you stay put.
You are permitted to communicate with your relatives only via postcards that will arrive three weeks after you are freed. You are served only drinks with no ice, raw fennel, and some kind of a hideous seafood ensemble called fruits de mer. Tortures include being forced to take daily showers and all night screenings of the Gerard Depardieu film festival.
Finally and inexplicable you are set free. The only reason they tell you for letting you go is that they are "sick of looking at your stupid bastard face."
These Stereotypes have been brought to you WalMart.
They typically pull up behind you in a Citroen or Peugeot and coax you into the car with chocolate croissant and convince you that they know a restaurant that serves lunch for under $85 per person excluding gratuity. You have to stand up and eat the lunch, but they promise no one will make fun of how you switch your fork back to your right hand when you consume said lunch. Thrilled, you get in the car.
After the car dies, you are escorted, handcuffed and blindfolded in Hermes on Le Metro to a secret location. You will be held in an invisible box by a Mime Extremist, who acts out what will happen to you if you try to escape. You are not sure exactly what he is doing as you watch him in terror; drinking coffee? running against the wind? or playing soccer - but you are terrified so you stay put.
You are permitted to communicate with your relatives only via postcards that will arrive three weeks after you are freed. You are served only drinks with no ice, raw fennel, and some kind of a hideous seafood ensemble called fruits de mer. Tortures include being forced to take daily showers and all night screenings of the Gerard Depardieu film festival.
Finally and inexplicable you are set free. The only reason they tell you for letting you go is that they are "sick of looking at your stupid bastard face."
These Stereotypes have been brought to you WalMart.
Back to Funny Hat Day--my Dutch friend, a woman in her 50s, went with her husband to watch the Holland-Italy match on Monday night. They went to downtown Zurich to watch it on one of the huge public screens set up.
She was wearing one of those Brunhilde type hats, with the blonde hair and the long braids, looking very Germanic I guess. She said a Swiss guy came up to her and handed her 5 francs and then stood there expectantly, thinking she was going to hand him a beer or a sausage . . .
Yeah, there are tons of funny hats here. It's really festive--just great, so different from the usually staid and quiet Zurich. They're keeping a cap on it, though--no alcohol sales after 10 pm in the convenience stores. (You can actually take an open beer on a train here, or walk around the street with it.)
She was wearing one of those Brunhilde type hats, with the blonde hair and the long braids, looking very Germanic I guess. She said a Swiss guy came up to her and handed her 5 francs and then stood there expectantly, thinking she was going to hand him a beer or a sausage . . .
Yeah, there are tons of funny hats here. It's really festive--just great, so different from the usually staid and quiet Zurich. They're keeping a cap on it, though--no alcohol sales after 10 pm in the convenience stores. (You can actually take an open beer on a train here, or walk around the street with it.)
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: 2:59 AM
: 2:59 AM
I'm fully expecting Austria to let Poland walk in and defeat them without a fight today, it seems to be in their nature.
Only fair considering that Poland is 0 for 86345282 in fights with the Germans.
Only fair considering that Poland is 0 for 86345282 in fights with the Germans.
# posted by : 10:04 AM
: 10:04 AM
Thank God the French don't believe in English (much less read it), otherwise how else would your secret plan to spring Osler from the Frenchies succeed, tydwbleach?
We must be as wise as serpents and has harmless as lambs when dealing with the French.
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We must be as wise as serpents and has harmless as lambs when dealing with the French.
Your Friendly Neighbhorhood Department of Homeland Security
"We Watch You. We Like to Watch."
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