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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