Monday, June 12, 2006

All Wrong

Well, I've barely recovered from the excitement. The Australia fight back to defeat the Japan, with three goals in the last five minutes. Impressive. Unfortunately, their third goal robbed me of my three points in the Mathmocoprophagia, but not to worry. I'll still win.

Anyway, given the displays of athleticism to be found on the telly, it was apt that I experienced a sports-themed BBQ on Sunday. Despite being brought up on British-style BBQs*, where the only exercise to be had is running inside when the rain starts, I was pleasantly surprised. Flexing those sporting muscles** goes unexpectedly well with drinking beer and eating home-made carcinogens.

The range of sports was uncountable, but highlights included dog-assisted badminton, frisbee, American football and `soccer'. The latter provided a low point, as two naive Englishmen who took on the Rest Of The World were repeatedly embarrassed by an American. She had the skills of Ronaldinho, but whatever. It was all wrong.



* I use the plural with caution, and am well aware that the average number of BBQ/year in England is 0.8

** a strained metaphor since they are actually pretty much the same as real muscles. Sue me, as they say here.

9 Comments:

At 9:02 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Claire, I'm going to treat your blog as the appropriate place on the web for Mathmocoprophagiacs-related comment. If you mind, perhaps, er, the Mysterious Guest Blogger can, ah, ask James to come up with something better.

In the meantime, I need somewhere to rant that the scoring system is terrible. Say England are playing Germany and Claire predicts that England will win 2-1, whereas James predicts the same score to Germany. In the end, England win 3-2. Then both players get one point! This sucks.

 
At 1:26 am, Blogger Claire said...

Also, if one predicts that the Argentines beat Serbia-Montenegro by seven goals to nil, and the actual score is only one fewer, one should definitely get at least one bonus point.

 
At 10:08 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You've got the bonus point in our hearts, Claire. Just not on the leaderboard.

 
At 12:45 pm, Blogger James said...

But, in a way, does the leaderboard really matter? Really?

 
At 12:47 pm, Blogger James said...

Henry, this is probably not the appropriate place for you to place further Mathmo/Copro commentary.

Hope that helps.

 
At 6:58 am, Blogger Pediment said...

Braais are better than BBQs

 
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