Get This Guy to Vegas
Brett McS last night in the comments:
The Germans always do well, even if they have a slightly sub-standard team. They make up for it with clinical execution of intelligent strategy.
And
I think Germany will win.
“Clinical Germany win on penalties”
And there you have it. Our own World Cup telepath.
July 1st, 2006 at 3:12 am
I’ll blow the telepath reputation and pick France to beat Brazil, and England to beat Portugal, though I think both may be more in hope than expectation.
Come on, England! Come on, England! … Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves!
July 1st, 2006 at 3:31 pm
Britannia rules the waves!
wOOt! Ima wax pedanant…… itn rule the waves
It’s a plea/command from gawd, not necessarily a fact.
/Ima immersed in Churchillia at the moment.
July 1st, 2006 at 4:24 pm
If I’d known how they totally suck at taking penalties… Three misses out of four!
Anyway, the French got up against the giants of Brazil. Good for them.
(This is my first MacComment)
July 1st, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Huzzah huzzah huzzah! Break out a bottle of wine! Slice some peaches into a salad! Whip together some Garibaldi biscuits with red currants served beside a custard tart! Sure that’s my dinner anyway but this is (another) reason to celebrate!
My college roommate who’s since moved to New York bought a Mac too yesterday or the day before. The new laptop. We should be getting paid for this.
Which vessel of Churchillian immersion are you using?
July 1st, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Nextstop, Laptop. I see that if one has two OSX Macs, they will automatically network together when connected by a Firewire cable. Neato!
So, the New Yorker roommate was another convert? You should drop a line to Steve.
July 2nd, 2006 at 3:21 am
Rereading Manchesters The Last Lion, up 2nd volume 1935.
July 2nd, 2006 at 8:56 am
Oh lord at first I thought it was published in 1935, 2nd printing, and I was going to say, “Uh, rather misses the juicy bits, no?” But okay. I am going to utter the word “book” now, because occasionally I trawl my comments for book recommendations when I’m on my way to the library.
Don’t forget the iPod!
And I can get from Peter how he hooked up his bluetooth so that when he walked up to his computer iTunes would start, when the phone would ring iTunes would pause, and a little thing would pop up saying who was calling, and when he hung up the phone iTunes would resume playing again, and pause if he walked away from the computer. Then you’ll be the coolest kid on the block.
July 2nd, 2006 at 9:13 am
I’d kill a computer with that kinda cheek. One needs a Man for that sorta thing.
Todays Churchill thingy: He named all his chickens at Chartwell and refused to eat poultry since it could be one of his “friends”.
July 2nd, 2006 at 10:12 pm
That sounds like something I’d do. I want chickens for the eggs. But then I never eat chicken anymore anyway, so it wouldn’t be much of a problem.
This summer camp I went to, there was this bloody-minded turkey that used to chase us around the yard one year, and god I couldn’t wait to eat that thing. I think I left the day before we did, though. The thing was hideous because the chickens picked most of its feathers off. Stupid bird.
I’d also like geese but they fly, and I wouldn’t really know what to do with them (other than keep them at the bugs trying to get at my strawberries, a trick I read about in the Telegraph just now) but that’s a bit of overkill. Of course, if I were that rich, I could indulge my fantasy of peacocks and swans, but, well, I’m not that optimistic anymore.
July 3rd, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Consider a pair of Guineas, excellent lookouts and work on the bugz too.
July 3rd, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Really?
Of course, the cats would eat them.