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Containing Them | 118 comments (118 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Okay, now, as a Southerner, the Baseball as Girls Game stab is fine by me. It's a sport for those fairies up in the Union.

In fact, why don't you Godless commies play it like your Yankee cousins?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 07:58:19 PM EST
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Well most of your sports it's like health and safety gone mad. All that padding and helmets and having to stop every few seconds for a rest to play a game that's even vaguely like rugby. Although I suppose that your youth are now learning to play proper football and finaly joining in proper world competitions.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 08:15:18 PM EST
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Well, yes, but our people are twice the size of your people. What's a typical rugby player weigh -- maybe 180? We've got field goal kickers larger than your rugby players.

And of course we need breaks. Do you know how difficult it is to run after eating half a dozen Big Macs every day for twenty years?

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 08:39:39 PM EST
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And it's obviously a sport that teaches the ethics of an intensely class ridden society, after all every player has to know his place.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 08:43:44 PM EST
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Class and race with a lot of Rome sprinkled in. Could be worse: the rural types watch cars drive in circles for five hours.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 08:46:37 PM EST
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all that and chariot racing too. Truly you are the new Rome

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 08:52:49 PM EST
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Nah, Rome's got nothin' on us.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 09:03:07 PM EST
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Well when one of your presidents torches rome, sleeps with his sister and gets a horse sworn into congress I'll admit that.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 09:07:27 PM EST
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Rome? I meant Washington.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 09:08:05 PM EST
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I'm pretty sure we could swing it, but probably not this go-round. We're a bit short on Southerners for 2008.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Nov 12th, 2007 at 10:04:24 PM EST
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