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Sonnet 001 - Football (10/06/10 18:44:59) Reply
    Football came home now it's leaving again
    Google I'm sure will keep you all posted
    Spectators feel neither sunshine nor rain
    There's a roof where the crowds will be hosted
    Such a feast, the best compete - what a treat
    The joy of life, the king of sports, the thrills
    The beer and booze, the girls, the coke - how sweet
    The pitch black money, the nonsilent kills
    Doped fashion players and paid referees
    The fights on the field glorify the chief
    The poor in slums with mud to their knees
    No cops will be there deterring the thief
    The only protection will be their own gun
    I no more will think that football is fun
HIII
Revision: Sonnet 001 - Football (11/06/10 21:10:44) Reply
    (I slipped the syllable counting in line 15)

    "The only protection is their own gun"

    More glitches?

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    Football came home now it's leaving again
    Google I'm sure will keep you all posted
    Spectators feel neither sunshine nor rain
    There's a roof where the crowds will be hosted
    Such a feast, the best compete - what a treat
    The joy of life, the king of sports, the thrills
    The beer and booze, the girls, the coke - how sweet
    The pitch black money, the nonsilent kills
    Doped fashion players and paid referees
    The fights on the field glorify the chief
    The poor in slums with mud to their knees
    No cops will be there deterring the thief
    The only protection is their own gun
    I no more will think that football is fun
HIII
Sonnet 002 - Football2 (12/06/10 17:54:55) Reply
    In football we can see a world reflex
    A mirror for the chagrin of mankind
    Enjoyment on the level of pure sex
    And sorrows deep as anyone can find
    We wish the other team to be destroyed
    We wish them all to end in loser's hell
    We wish revenge for wins they have enjoyed
    We wish to see them lose and wish to tell
    We see our heroes flirting with the crowd
    We'll win, of course, and doing it in style
    We celebrate acoustically, and loud
    Forgetting scolding girlfriends for a while
    when rich and poor converge into one role
    Discarding all conventions shouting GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL
HIII
Re: Sonnet 001 - Football (14/06/10 19:22:46) Reply
    Football is like chess only without the dice
Lukas Podolski
Re: Re: Sonnet 001 - Football (14/06/10 19:37:05) Reply
dom
So if not Germany, then Ireland (14/06/10 21:20:56) Reply
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5G8AJf4Xzw

    (ah, Horslips. My vinyl copy of The Tain is badly worn.)
e
And, after the introduction of Horslips (14/06/10 21:38:11) Reply
    This one is a must see / must hear

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Ikea5ZLnc&feature=related
e
Re: And, after the introduction of Horslips (15/06/10 20:07:24) Reply
    Friend, do you agree with me on the matter of the utter lacklustre of these barbaric youtube links? For Pete's sake, what is the meaning of "w_Ikea5ZLnc"? Isn't that snippet supposed to be elegantly concealed in some hyperlink, instead of making our eyes bleed and our minds boggle in such boorish fashion?
Chocolate jesus
Re: Re: And, after the introduction of Horslips (15/06/10 21:32:45) Reply
    I'll make a note of it. Sometimes I may be able to fulfil your wish, but most likely I will slip occasionally.
e
Re: So if not Germany, then Ireland (17/06/10 17:50:52) Reply
    thanks, my mind lost that nice one (OK, not really, i still can remember it)
dom
Re: Re: So if not Germany, then Ireland (22/06/10 19:10:08) Reply
dom
Dancehall experiences (21/08/10 09:15:41) Reply
    "Dancehalls
    I miss the dancehalls, all the girls lined up on one side of the floor, and the stampede across to ask them to out, when it was ladies choice I was always targeted by a girl who the lads had nicknamed "Wanda", I think named after a character in Sesame Street – (Wanda the Witch.) . Even Big Tom aka "The Hoover" wouldn't snog this woman, you have to have standards.
    Of course the thing with ballrooms was that the vast majority of them only ever had a mineral bar, so you had to get tanked up before you went. Even Wanda the Witch took on the shape of Claudia Schiffer after a couple of bacardi and cokes. "Can I walk you Home" these words always came out with a tremble in the voice, and if you were lucky you might get to "shift" her in some dark corner. Unfortunately the following day is something else altoghter and many a vow of celibacy was made on those cold sober mornings. "NEVER AGAIN".... How often have I said it.... How often have we said it.

    Divorced Dean, Official Horslips Guestbook, Friday 21 May 2004 - 01:07:59"

    (http://www.comebackhorslips.com/horslipslyrics/ds/album.html)
e
Re: Re: Sonnet 001 - Football (27/06/10 20:43:24) Reply
    OK, time to cut off the hand of god.
dom
Re: Re: Re: Sonnet 001 - Football (28/06/10 07:39:30) Reply
    Which hand? Hope you choose the "right" one.
oxo
FootballSonnet 003 (28/06/10 17:17:00) Reply
    The master of the Heaven All-Star Souls
    Arranged a football match with those below
    Negotiating fields and balls and roles
    To make it worth a universal show
    This angel had to brag a bit too much
    And said – my team is almost sure to win
    The ball – we pass it right on every touch
    And easily will land it in the bin
    The best defenders of the universe
    Are on my team, best shooters are ours too
    The opposition was a bit more terse
    I’m sure that all you say is fair and true
    I’ll just remind you - just remember, please
    That I am boss of all the referees
HIII
Re: Re: Re: Re: Sonnet 001 - Football (28/06/10 20:33:57) Reply
    .:) you're right, it was the left

    -->

    And you, hard time on Saturday?
dom
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sonnet 001 - Football (02/07/10 08:24:46) Reply
    I start getting used to it...

    Actually, that's what I call a win-win situation :-)
    Except for a bottle of Champagne, that is waiting for the outcome before knowing the owner.
oxo
Re: Re: Re: Sonnet 001 - Football (01/07/10 17:27:07) Reply
    Lionel Messi said something like "we will win when god is with us". Just speculate about what will happen if Mesut Özil's god is with Mesut too, a "War of the Gods" or a Götterdämmerung?
dom
Re: God's hand (03/07/10 18:29:39) Reply
    Argentina's out
    God's hand no more is playing
    Now back to football
HIII
Re: Re: God's hand (06/07/10 21:29:05) Reply
    God was wrathful on Saturday. And now, sorry for .es, but with .nl in the finale, the counterpart has to be .de.
    The most loved enemies are the closest neighbours :)
dom
Big brother and little brother (07/07/10 17:49:58) Reply
    Nothing will beat the final of 1974 anyway. Now Cruyff is out, so the start will be slower.
e
Hah (11/07/10 16:44:42) Reply
    Cruyff is on both sides - one as a Dutchman; the other as the designer of the Barcelona playing style.

    I've been considering myself a fan for decades, and I didn't know.
e
that last game .. (13/07/10 03:17:33) Reply
    I really could have done without it.

    The last beautiful game was uru vs ger; the pesky agitators from the River Plate had heart. Good on them.
ft
Re: that last game .. (19/07/10 13:08:55) Reply
    Agreed. The Dutch team played unfairly and deserved deep humiliation which they didn't get by far (only contempt). The Spanish team deserved to win.

    The bronze final was more fun, specially because we had distinguished German guests who saw the match with us. ("I'm thirsty, but there will be no more cheering until the next German goal" - so there was another goal just when I needed it for my credibility).
e
Sonnet writing (16/06/10 20:57:20) Reply
    It's really worthwhile doing once in a while. A few days ago (or was it yesterday) the group I belong to decided to write a letter to the management with a considerable number of points. It could easily have bloated into several pages, but was kept down to one-half page (so one page altogether, including the signatures.).

    The method we used was: One secretary at the keyboard, and everybody reading the text projected on the wall with real-time criticism and rewriting, starting with two statements that everybody could agree on - and building bottom-up.

    The discipline of writing a couple of sonnets a few days earlier came in very handy for the keyboard monkey.
e
Finished (the truncated sonnet) (25/07/10 16:36:57) Reply
    The games all played, the fanfares made, now gone
    Spectators with the painted faces - home
    Where thousands cheered we now are seeing none
    The fleeting minds have changed the place to roam
    The kings, prime ministers and presidents
    Who saw their teams get sweat and sore, then lose
    Have now gone back to other residents
    within their chambers, playing it in twos
    You will insult them if you call them strumpets
    At least you will not hear those plastic trumpets
HIII
Re: Finished (the truncated sonnet) (25/07/10 20:16:18) Reply
    congrats, that's a real nice one, i like the most:

    > At least you will not hear those plastic trumpets

    But after the match is before the match.

    Here is at the moment the U20 women world championship and the .de women (same in .no i think) are more successful than the male.
    So there's still hope to win one tournament this year :)
dom
Re: Re: Finished (the truncated sonnet) (01/08/10 20:11:47) Reply
    6 games, 20 goals, that's OK.
    Most of the girls with a long lasting Make Up, till some tears of luck destroyed it :)
dom
Strumpated Bruxelloid sonnet (26/07/10 19:20:50) Reply
    My boot was decorated with its spore
    My foot was sweating through its open pore
    I struggled through the air and got ashore
    And slipped away to miss the engines' roar
    I cut the furs and claws of my old boar
    Got little wool - of screaming there was more
    I spun the thread - it only snapped and tore
    I gave it up - that project was a bore
    I thought the future had a lot in store
    In Mort Subite the spirits did not pour
    But opened bottlenecks like none before
    So all got full of stories, beer and lore
    Oh let us make a cheer for missing friends
    And wish it takes a long time till all ends
HIII
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