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[charge] Well if you didn't already guess this is my forum. Welcome come on in and make yourself at home.
Me:
Male
Live in Northern Michigan
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2 kids (1 boy - 1 girl)
1 dog (standard schnauzer)
Emperor + player (can do higher if it's a great start)
Frequent Here and CFC
Nothing hugely exciting but hey it's a start
Darkness
26-04-2005, 15:33
Following the tried and true CDZ tradition:
[spam]
PS: Welcome Mistfit! :)
Pastorius
26-04-2005, 15:39
So, you snuck in a request for a forum without us noticing, ey?
Perhaps we should warn you about our fondness for weird meatlike substances (http://www.spam.com)
Are you sure you know what you are doing here?
Mistfit, it is great to see you here, may your time here be spammy and your spoilers full of cool pictures.
[wavey]
I hate mushrooms [smirk][smokin]
Melifluous
26-04-2005, 16:29
Greetings Mistfit.
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Have fun here...
Melifluous
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Lt. Killer M
26-04-2005, 16:44
wo-hoa, thatw as fast!
Northern Michigan - my familiy has good friends near Columbiaville! Been there and loved it :)
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Just to add to the mobile spam!
Columbiaville??? I've lived here all of my life and have not heard of that one. Is it in the UP? I'm actually in northern lower.
grahamiam
26-04-2005, 17:52
welcome, have a spam-shake!
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Melifluous
26-04-2005, 18:18
quote:Originally posted by Mistfit
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/Mistfit/2005426172121_bean.gif
Just to add to the mobile spam!
Mr Bean? Me Fuckin Bean!!!1!
He is not funny. He is not funny.
For such a travesty to be allowed online I propose the following option.
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Melifluous
Tonight it's.... http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/ERIKK/2005426182413_logopsv.jpg ...night!!!![charge]
Oh come on ! Ya gotta love the Bean!
BTW I found Columbiaville... It's actually in south east Michigan near Flint. This is about 3.5 to 4 hours south and east of where I am. Population of 815 in the 2000 census so It's no wonder I had not heard of it.
Sorry ERIKK I missed your post eariler... Right back at ya babe!
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Darkness
26-04-2005, 23:36
@Misfit: ERIKK is an Ajax fan, so I doubt he'll really mind that. :)
Better watch out though when *CDZ Admin* PP sees that Milan banner though...;)
http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/logos/FootballLogo991.gif
[mischief]
Rik Meleet
27-04-2005, 01:08
http://www.vi.nl/assets_tracker/logo_c/nec_logo_grijs6841.gif
:D
BTW: Mistfit; see how my avatar -made by you- jumps proudly around the mistfit created waves ... [goodjob]
@ Rik ~ I noticd that. I really like the ending product on that one.
BTW who won yesterday? I posted the opposing team to the PSV banner posted by ERIKK. I honestly have never heard of any of the teams you guys have posted here. Actually until I googled it I did not even realize that they were Football teams. You know us Yanks. Not all that up on soccer.
Rik Meleet
27-04-2005, 13:06
report is found on the UEFA site: http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/fixturesresults/round=1971/match=1086475/Report=SF.html
Pastorius
27-04-2005, 17:19
It's not soccer, it is FOOTBALL, you American rugby fanatics!!!111!oneone
[aargh][rant]
Paalikles,
Norwegian: fotball
Dutch: voetbal
German: fussball
French: football
English: football
American: soccer
@Paalikles ~ I got it right 1/2 of the post. I called it football once and soccer once.
Pastorius
27-04-2005, 18:45
Matrix, all those European words have the same meaning afaik - foot and ball in combination
The american word for football is just stupid.
Sorry Mistfit, dont mean to shout and all that in your forum, but I really dislike american "cultural imperialism"
How is it any less "cultural imperialism" when you try to force your name for a given sport on me?
metric system, imperial system..tomato, tamotto..pool, pond...its all the same.
grahamiam
27-04-2005, 19:14
actually, the word "soccer" may actually come from the word football [crazyeye]
quote:Soccer
Soccer is an abbreviation for Association Football. The Football Association was formed in London in October 1863 when representatives of eleven clubs and schools met in an attempt to standardize the rules of the game. One of the rules prohibited the carrying of the ball, a rule that would lead to the Rugby-oriented clubs leaving the Association several months later. The name Association Football was coined to distinguish it from Rugby.
By 1889, the abbreviation socca' was in use, and the spelling soccer had made its appearance by 1895.
source -> http://www.wordorigins.org/wordors.htm
so, Americans are just using a term for the sport derived originally by the English. What's wrong with that?
and another source, from "the word detectives"
quote:Dear Word Detective: I would be interested to learn the origins of the word "soccer." As a Brit currently living in the US, I am often dismayed to hear the term used to describe a sport that I, and many of my countrymen, have always known as "football." Is usage of the word "soccer" within the US simply a way of distinguishing the "beautiful game" from the altogether less appropriately-named sport of American Football (which, to my understanding, is played almost exclusively with one's hands)? -- Pete Collins, via the internet.
You know, as much as I like this question, I can't quite get over the feeling that I'm being set up. After all, I live about 35 miles from Columbus, Ohio, home of the OSU Buckeyes football team, and people around here are bananas (to put it politely) about football. Skeptics on the subject of Buckeye supremacy have, in fact, been known to disappear without a trace along with their household pets. But what the heck, since I've never had the sense God gave cole slaw, I'll stick my neck out and agree that "soccer" is a far more intelligent, skillful and interesting game.
It's true that the game known as "football" in most of the world (not just the UK) is known as "soccer" in the US, but we didn't just pull the word out of the air so that we could call our quasi-gladiatorial extravaganzas "football." In fact, you Brits actually invented the word. "Soccer," when it first appeared in the 1890s, was spelled "socca," which was short for "association" or "association football," meaning football played according to the rules laid down by the British Football Association. It was also called "socker" until the current form "soccer" appeared around 1895.
The "er" suffix of "soccer," incidentally, was often used in late 19th and early 20th century slang, and can also be found in the transformation of the name of the British game "rugby" (named after the Rugby School in England) into the popular term "rugger." Rugby, incidentally, is a sport similar to American football, but played without the helmets and elaborate padding used in American stadiums.
Pastorius
27-04-2005, 19:40
quote:One of the rules prohibited the carrying of the ball, a rule that would lead to the Rugby-oriented clubs leaving the Association several months later. The name Association Football was coined to distinguish it from Rugby.
Those "American football" players carry the ball - ergo - they are not playing football. QED
grahamiam
27-04-2005, 19:51
yes, but soccer = Associated Football, so what's the problem with that word being used to describe football?
Wrong is that football is played with hands, I mean American variety of course.
Cross-posted with Pall and Grah editing and posting again.
grahamiam
27-04-2005, 20:11
but that was not Paal's complaint [mischief] he stated "it's not soccer, it's football..." however, a little bit of searching shows that soccer = associated football, the term used to describe the origins of the sport so widely loved today as "football".
btw, i totally agree that "American Football" should not use the term "football" at all. even my 4yr old knows that [lol]
Pastorius
27-04-2005, 20:15
Well, my thought before grahamiam posted the reason for "soccer" was that Americans use the term football on their own variant of rugby, and soccer because football was already taken. So I emphasized the touching of the ball with hands in NFL...
Example carrying of ball: http://home.swipnet.se/~w-26343/photo1.jpg
Nice Example: Barry Sanders one of my all time favorites!!!
Melifluous
28-04-2005, 00:04
I would like to applaud Paals defense of the fine game that is 'football'
I found this link (http://rl1908.com/resources/Origin-Rugby.htm) abouts the origins of rugby.
I would like to quote this line about the now famous William Webb Ellis,
quote:
(William) "in a fine disregard for the rules" picked up the ball and ran with it in a defining moment in sports history is now accepted by sports historians as being fanciful and a gross distortion of what is known.
Although the carrying of the ball was admirable. It was also clearly against the rules.
Football is football.
American football aint.
There is no such thing as American English. There is only English and some other type of English.
Melifluous
Pastorius
28-04-2005, 00:06
:D
You can always count on Mel
Who'da thunk it that my thread would have turned into a rant about the propper naming of Football?
Not this crazy clown. [joker]
Melifluous
28-04-2005, 00:45
Ah but it is ones expressed mission in life to both
1) subvert the true meaning of any thread
2) Educate the masses about the true meaning of stupid and English (need I say it twice?) in a patronising and condescending way.
Peace.
Melifluous
quote: I've always imagined the internet as like a giant hall, like a church or an echoing tunnel. You know what I want to do then? ...
I'm always imagining a forum with only a single thread. Everything is discussed in it. It would be a long and peculiar thread. You know what I want to do then? I imagine myself an admin which wakes up and erases the whole thread and people have to start building a new long thread again from scratch. Longer than the training day game. BTW, have the guys there finished on not? It seems that the fourth shift is working on it or even fifth. First are already veterans.
I've actually been playing in GK2 TDG for over a year now. It's gotten to the point where we are having a difficult time actually getting noobs to play in it. I will admit though that that game probably improved my game the most of anything since I started palying Civ. What I find funny about the TDG is that the last turns have been played by myself, alerum, denyd, and Brother Bede. All of which (with the possible exception of myself) have no reason to be playing in such a low level game.
quote:Originally posted by Melifluous
There is no such thing as American English. There is only English and some other type of English.
That's rather egocentric. [coool]
Well, there's Texan talk also. Ain't mastered it yet. Tis hard for my nerve.
Lt. Killer M
28-04-2005, 08:52
yeeeeeha!
we're goin' to'e mall, yumto?
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Nice one.. Is that your little brother or just an imaginary friend??
No that's me...my little brother is much uglier
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