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06-13-2019, 02:00 PM - 1 Like   #67996
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You are saying Charlie really is Uri Geller? :confused;
You don't have to be Uri Geller to do the fork thing, I learned it. Restaurant owners hate it, and you don't want tot do it at home.

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Backpackers cut the labels off their shirts to reduce weight, maybe you could ride faster if you did shave there?
Nah. Real backpackers don't have shirts. One shirt is plenty.
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Three hours and none of you other mokes have given this a like?

Come on man, all y’all are slippin’!
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Nah. Real backpackers don't have shirts. One shirt is plenty.
I always take one change of clothes when I go into the woods.

Always have a contingency plan.

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At my age I take a clean set of clothes everywhere.
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QuoteOriginally posted by robtcorl Quote
and bull hockey is played in a pasture.
When I was growing up my family met up with some of my moms family and we camped in the Lassen Volcanic National Park. There were cattle roaming freely in the park, grazing the mountain meadows. My cousins and I collected all the cow chips we could find and used them as firewood for the campfire.

Worked awesome, and the smell was like fresh baked brownies.

We all had B.B. guns, and lacking much for targets, we tried shooting fresh cow pies. Produced some interesting results, and made us all bust out laughing. We laughed so much our sides hurt.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Racer X 69 Quote
When I was growing up my family met up with some of my moms family and we camped in the Lassen Volcanic National Park. There were cattle roaming freely in the park, grazing the mountain meadows. My cousins and I collected all the cow chips we could find and used them as firewood for the campfire.

Worked awesome, and the smell was like fresh baked brownies.

We all had B.B. guns, and lacking much for targets, we tried shooting fresh cow pies. Produced some interesting results, and made us all bust out laughing. We laughed so much our sides hurt.
My dad said that, when they were kids (in the Great Depression) they could not afford shoes, so went everywhere barefoot, even in winter. So, when walking to school they warmed their feet in fresh cowpats.
The classroom must have had an interesting odour.

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My dad said that, when they were kids (in the Great Depression) they could not afford shoes, so went everywhere barefoot, even in winter. So, when walking to school they warmed their feet in fresh cowpats.
The classroom must have had an interesting odour.
My grandfather said that by the time he got his first pair of shoes he had to put rocks in them to be comfortable.
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My grandfather said that by the time he got his first pair of shoes he had to put rocks in them to be comfortable.
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QuoteOriginally posted by tim60 Quote
Here they call soccer football.

There needs to be a brand descriptor for kinds of football.
Australian
Rugby League
Rugby Union
Gaelic
American
Soccer
So here is how I see it.

The game as played in North America, we will continue to call American Football. Pretty sure everyone would be onboard with that.

The other game, played with a ball similar to the American Football in shape, although not size, played by a bunch of hooligans who refuse to wear any protection or helmets (and I would guess they don't even wear an athletic supporter or a cup, those boys are that tough), and put up much more of a fight over the ball than those Americans ever did, well, i think Rugby is a perfect name for that game. And I bet everyone else would agree, for the same reasons

The other game, where a bunch of guys kick around a ball that isn't really round, but a truncated icosahedron, and bounce it off their heads, but don't dare touch it with their hands, well, I think we should call that game No Hands.

Does anyone want to second that motion?
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So here is how I see it.

The game as played in North America, we will continue to call American Football. Pretty sure everyone would be onboard with that.

The other game, played with a ball similar to the American Football in shape, although not size, played by a bunch of hooligans who refuse to wear any protection or helmets (and I would guess they don't even wear an athletic supporter or a cup, those boys are that tough), and put up much more of a fight over the ball than those Americans ever did, well, i think Rugby is a perfect name for that game. And I bet everyone else would agree, for the same reasons

The other game, where a bunch of guys kick around a ball that isn't really round, but a truncated icosahedron, and bounce it off their heads, but don't dare touch it with their hands, well, I think we should call that game No Hands.

Does anyone want to second that motion?
Well, Football is easy: You play it with your feet, and occasionally bouncing it on your head. But you don't touch it with your hands except for the goalkeeper or if the ball is out of play. That's why it's called "football". As in "foot" and "ball".

Rugby is rugby. No pads and so on.

As for American football: I can't help you with that!
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Well..........

No hands.........thats Soccer or Football in Greater Europe..
Gaelic......thats a cross of soccer and Aussie Rules..
Rugby Union......A brawl called a game...
Rugby League........same as above with more breaks...
American Football......ah I won't offend....
Aussie Rules.....sometimes called ariel ping pong.....

Thats the games according to a NASA actor..........who he is no one knows


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QuoteOriginally posted by MarkJerling Quote
Well, Football is easy: You play it with your feet, and occasionally bouncing it on your head. But you don't touch it with your hands except for the goalkeeper or if the ball is out of play. That's why it's called "football". As in "foot" and "ball".
Foot and ball leaves out the head.

Like I said, No Hands.

They should only allow players who have no arms. I remember a lot of kids growing up who had no arms. Some kind of birth defect thing that was going around.

They would have made perfect No Hands players.

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Rugby is rugby. No pads and so on.
Rugby is awesome.

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As for American football: I can't help you with that!
I can't help me with that.

I don't follow it.

Bunch of wusses with helmets and shoulder pads, anyway.
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Well, Football is easy: You play it with your feet, and occasionally bouncing it on your head. But you don't touch it with your hands except for the goalkeeper or if the ball is out of play. That's why it's called "football". As in "foot" and "ball".
OK.

A compromise.

Foot And Head Ball

Wait a minute.

It isn't a ball, it is a truncated icosahedron.

So it is Foot And Head Truncated Icosahedron

Game
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American Football......ah I won't offend....
That's very nice of you Dave.

But I don't think it would offend me.

Nope.
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