Ah, Rex - King of the Taut.
He has been enshrined in a book called 'Tautology Too' by Alex Buzo (once a
playwright of Australia). Very funny book - and instructive for students, of
course. All sports writers should read and digest it too.
... although sports writers are by far the best journalists in this country.
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com
If you have time, please go and look at my blog. I need the hits :-)
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From: "Caleb Cluff" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: snap~~~28/06/2006 07:12:26
I think I learned a lot about language from sport and sports commentary,
thank you very much! Famously, in Australia, there was/is a Rugby League
commentator named Rex Mossop (an ex-English rep, I believe) who not only
taught me that football sides can make 'forward progress, but that he
was opposed to nude bathing on the grounds that he was "sick of walking
along the beach and having people's genitals shoved down his throat..."
Cal
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From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger Day
Sent: Thursday, 29 June 2006 8:02 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: snap~~~28/06/2006 07:12:26
curling, shmurling ... I've always gone for Aussie rules hurling m'self.
Pass the bucket, nurse!
I'm worried now that there're a lot of culturally deprived people on
petc - people who may have read Dante and Pound but who've not had the
exquisite pleasure of listening to Mottie dissecting the offside rule
... For those so deprived,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3797259.stm
For some real toe-curling: http://www.footballpoets.org/
Roger
On 28/06/06, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Shurely you mean hurling, all those brooms and frosty cold...
>
> No, that's curling ...
>
> > And is
> > there a World Cup for it? Like the "world series" for this thing
> > involving a "base" and a "ball".
>
> Well, it's an Olympic sport, and the Scottish Women's team won the
> gold medal at the last Winter Olympics.
>
> Hurling (I misspelled it initially) is a bit like shinty (the Irish
> name for it, if it's not the other way around) -- hockey with lethal
force.
>
> Robin
>
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