Oops: I actually do enjoy some sports, often ones with balls, but I get Patrick’s bewilderment as to the why today, especially under such expensive support from governments. On the other hand, Jon Stewart the other night pointed out that trying to take the next World Cup away from Russia would anger an even more evil entity: FIFA.
Doug
On Jul 23, 2014, at 6:58 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It's true that there are some whose approach to poetry is to chase round in
> a narrow space trying to be more highly thought of than others; but apart
> from that I cannot see a similarity between ball sports and poetry.
>
> (There was though a Punch cartoon of a grinning soldier running up and down
> in no man's land, kicking a ball, watched by men from the trenches, one of
> whom is saying to another "Lucky blighter's excused poetry"
>
> Not wishing to think my fellow bipeds idiots, I have been trying to see
> something worth while in sport all my life and I am now in my seventh
> decade. With such an accumulation of data, all negative to the proposition,
> I think that proposition goes beyond prejudice.
>
> I charge mass idiocy
>
> L
>
>
> On 23 July 2014 13:45, Tim Allen <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> What's wrong with balls? Nothing wrong with balls. Balls are good for
>> playing with whatever age you are. Balls are great. The world is a ball.
>> Sport is very very good for health and excitement and interest. Why this
>> cliched arty opposition to anything sporty. It's a prejudice just the same
>> as a prejudice against poetry, for example.
>>
>>
>> Tim A.
>>
>> On 23 Jul 2014, at 10:37, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>
>>> for me Patrick, the poem should end at Balls all balls.
>>> That seems a
>>> strong message and it is not as if the government just introduced these
>>> pastimes, they have been going on for donkeys and will almost certainly
>>> continue to do so.
>>> See you Tuesday.
>>>
>>> John.
>>>
>>>> ----Original Message----
>>>
>>>> From: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Date: 23/07/2014 7:35
>>>> To:
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Subj: pat snap -636 *^*"+*^*"
>>> +*^*"+
>>>>
>>>> BALLS
>>>>
>>>> we have
>>>> just been
>>>> brainwashed
>>>> all over the
>>> tv
>>>> with weeks of
>>>> men mindlessly
>>>> kicking balls
>>>> large footballs
>>>> and
>>> then
>>>> people mindlessly
>>>> hitting medium balls
>>>> with tennis racquets
>>>
>>>> yellow tennis balls
>>>> and now
>>>> we are threatened
>>>> with more crazy
>>>> men
>>> mindlessly
>>>> clubbing small balls
>>>> white golf balls
>>>>
>>>> balls all balls
>>>
>>>>
>>>> is there no end
>>>> to this madness?
>>>> our government
>>>> must be desperate
>>>
>>>> must be trying
>>>> to distract divert
>>>> hide cover up
>>>> conceal
>>> something?
>>>> perhaps we need
>>>> Edward Snowden
>>>> here-back again
>>>> S O S -
>>> help!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pmcmanus
>>>> r558
>>>>
>>
>
Douglas Barbour
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Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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