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-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), August 17, 2000

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WOW! What a relief! I have had severe frl withdrawal, let's now hope that it will stay up! YEAH!

-- (sis@home.zzz), August 19, 2000.

Yeah, that was pretty bad! Hope everything will be okay now. Especially since September is coming up, and the kids will soon be back in school...and I'll have all that time on my hands again! Woohoo!

PS - My daughter's football team won their season opener last night 20-12 and my adorable tight end was on the opening offense and on the field for two of the touchdowns they scored. If ever there was a moment of extreme joy in a child's face...the final whistle brought it to hers...and she was in the middle of a giant pile of teammates on the field..shouting and laughing and whooping it up. She was finally one of them. I am so proud of her. :-)

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), August 20, 2000.

Good for her, Kritter! Must've been almost as happy a look on your face :-)

We're back!!! Yipppeeee!!!!

Now I've gotta go think up some haiku to celebrate ;-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), August 20, 2000.

Well, good for your daughter, Krit. Although I must admit I find football (along with bayonet fighting) a bit unsuitable for the girls.

Yeh, yeh, I know: girls can do everything the boys can do, including the rude and insulting. But I still like to give my nieces dresses instead of football helmets. (I wouldn't mind teaching them to shoot, though.).

Go ahead, flame away. I'm too old to change. :-)

Gene

-- gene (ekbaker@essex1.com), August 21, 2000.

Welllllll - I agree your adoreable tight end might have been on the field, and the crowd was certainly well in its rights (and lefts, and fronts, and backs) cheering its heart out to see it playing with vim, vigor, and firm delight ....

But really. In front of the children? In public? What did the cheerleaders do while your tight end was playing? Did they need a time out? (During, or after you finished playing.

I'm surprised.

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By the way, what position does your kid play?

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), August 22, 2000.

Gene, I agree I wouldn't let her play football past the point where boys develope muscles and strength that a girl just doesn't...but these are 7-8 year olds. She's bigger than some of them. At this point, the risks of injury are the same for them as her. They certainly do pad them head to toe..so I'm not too concerned YET. I had some reservations when she first asked to play,...but she has worked just as hard as the boys..and the daily two hour practices are VERY rigorous! So..I feel I have the right to feel proud of her accomplishments!

Robert..when they first told Jackie that her position was "tight end", she was baffled..LOL. I said "Cause Tight Ends are the cutest"... she didn't get it..but give her 10 years... :-)

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), August 22, 2000.

Oh f'kit!!! Coookie stole all the tight-end jokes!!!

Ya'know, on roughly this tangent, i tought my nephew how to ollie, and I explained why to pursue the next-hardest-trick, rather than waste your day trying to switch-varial-late-flip like the pro's...whaddayaknow?...I woke from that hangover, 2 years later, he's sponsored now...

pursue the challenging fun...don't be mesmerised by the masters. The joy is in your reaction to the immediate situation, not in comparison to those who've gone before, who are only famous now 'cos they kicked all arses back then...just be the best you can for this particular tiny segment of space-time. What the hell else is there?????

But when the topic of football comes up, & me beeing in Mil-born & all, it behoves me to say that...

I live in a city COMPLETELY overrun by footy-heads!!!!!@!@#$!!!!!

Freakin farkin footyheads, as far as the eye can see!!!

Aaaah, they get in the way of reality.....there's important stuff going on!!!, while these tossers fuss about Kouta's knee or Lloydies' gonads. HONEST!!!!! there's more to life!!! But i live in THE epicentre of mindless-jock-related hubububub. And it comes to a head THIS WEEK....coz it's granfyn'l..("Grand Final" in english.)

Honest, if you've ever been pissed off by the pre-dominernce of THE JOCKS in your life, (even if it's just takin up tv space when there's a good symphony on,) well, borrow my smelly shoes for a day.....and live in THE CITY with by FAR the biggest turn-out week-by-week to the designated sport, i.e. farkin' footy, of ANY, AANNYY city in the entire world.....(easy, by mmmiles...)

If the freaKIN sCientologists ruled a city entirely, they just could NEVER make more zombies like their game more than Melbourne likes footy. iT'S A SHAME,...i'M NOT MADE FOR IT....

but this week, it rocks....

"cos, on the whole, it's a pretty good game.

-- numbersix (Andy_made_a_killing_on_April_oil_call_options@is_living_on_an_island_somewhere.com( or he's really drunk etc)), August 26, 2000.

Go Demons..woohoo..! Poor Six..don't get yer knickers in a twist! (or is that british?) At least Footie season only lasts a few months. Just gotta grin and bear it, I guess.

Took me a second to figure out what you were talking about with your nephew, sorry..but it did dawn on me you are talking about skateboarding. And here I thought I was all hip and happening, I had to ask my son "What's an Ollie?"...sheesh.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), August 26, 2000.

What YOU doin' up at this hour Krit?

-- number six (tg[jejgeajg;djlkp;@lkhjgjfd';lgk';gk';gl.com), August 26, 2000.

Maybe you do get it Krit, to be barrackin for the Dees this week, cos they're into the grandfinal against the truly unbeatable (got any spare money?? wish to make a GGGguaranteed 33% on yo $) Essendon...but

Melbourne Demons are only one of TEN sides of that size, ALL in the same town, and the game is the local state religion, most sports- obsessed city in this galaxy, I'm afraid. it's fully embarrassing to have the olympics run in some city full of homersexual futures- brokers and Ad Exec's. (not that there's anything wrong with that, etc) especially when there's a whole city here full of sad sacks, who acktually care which lemming throws the metal frisbee furthest; or runs down the street fastestest, or can vault one's pole most convincingly.

It even fully distracts us anti-footyheads; distracts us from truly important things...save-the-world, sex etc.

-- number six (adgha;lkgh;fgjhdk;l@kjghdksghklaghd.com), August 26, 2000.

Speaking of Greenspun, I am proud to announce that FRL Friends forum has officially beaten out "Hedgehog Talk" and those pesky "Maine Coon Cats" and we are now taking on the long defunct "Humpty Dumpty Y2K" forum. Just another 700 messages...that's not too hard, right? ;-)

(I've suddenly got waaaay too much time on my hands..sheesh)

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), August 27, 2000.