Comments on: Clash of the titans

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:25:03 +0000

Grannyjones:

That’s far more logical. After all, Wales is so much closer to Israel than Scotland.

Alasdair and Grannyjones:

Considering the history of the last 2000 years, maybe you should reconsider those claim. is this a club the Welsh or the Scots really want to join? A lot of trouble comes with the secret handshake and decoder ring.
(Although, being part of a worldwide capitalist/communist – theocratic/atheist conspiracy can be kind of fun; and the monthly secret basement meetings do have free beer.)

By: grannyjones

grannyjones — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:06:36 +0000

I thought everyone knew the Welsh are the lost tribe of Israel

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:20:42 +0000

“according to a remarkable number of people, the Scots are decended from the Lost Tribes fo Israel”

After wandering 40 years in the desert to get from Egypt to Canaan, some of the Israelites then got so lost, they ended up in Scotland?!?!?

It’s too bad Moses didn’t bring a GPS device down from Mount Sinai along with the Books of the Law.

By: Little Sis

Little Sis — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:19:49 +0000

Premiership starts tomorrow…Now you have Owen (lets face it, he will always be a red) it should be interesting to see how the Utd fans react this season,considering you lot have always had nothing but bad words to say about him…!!!

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:37:16 +0000

Brooklyn – according to a remarkable number of people, the Scots are decended from the Lost Tribes fo Israel … there’s even a book entitled “When Scotland Was Jewish” … a Jewish colleague brought it to my attention …

If you click on my name, I *think* it’ll take you to an Amazon write-up about it …

It was an interesting, even if not fully compelling, read …

I suspect, however, that for Olympic Gold Medal level thriftiness, the sub-group of humanity most likely to take that medal are the Scots-Armenian Jews (probably speaking Armenian with an accent from a little outside Aberdeen) …

By: Brooklyn

Brooklyn — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:47:13 +0000

Alasdair:
“Oy” and “sassenachs” in the same post. Wonderful.

(Maybe it’s not a notable juxtapostion. After all, “loch” IS used to explain the pronunciation of “ch” in Chanukah. For example, http://www.answers.com/topic/hanukkah. Googling loch and Chanukah produces about 134,000 hits.)

By: Alasdair

Alasdair — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:18:08 +0000

Dylan – “it’s still effectively legal in my native Chester to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow after nidnight” – so when, prithee tell, is “nidnight” ? (grin)

As for us Scots, it’s WAAAAY more embarrassing, in that we actually inherited the lot of you back in 1603 … talk about “Be very careful what you ask for … ” … OY !

Still, I have to admit that sassenachs do make great percussion instruments …

They are *great* fun to beat !

By: LB

LB — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:16:23 +0000

Red Sox/Yankees’ rivalry comes close, but it’s not quite the same. It doesn’t ever quite have that dangerous edge to it that you find at a good 1st division match in the UK, say between Derby and Milwall. Or some such… It’s just not quite as passionate, or perhaps this is more accurate, it’s just not quite as *desperate*…

By: Silverback

Silverback — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:32:26 +0000

There was evidence of a pretty tasty rivalry on the pitch as well as in the stands at the Community Shield game yesterday where, of course, the better team won

By: Almost American

Almost American — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:16:34 +0000

LOL – when DH and I were in the UK to get married we visited Liverpool. At a souvenir stall at the Albert Docks they were selling T-shirts. There were some on sale. For 50 pence. They were ‘United’ shirts. DH didn’t get it at first – he just saw matching shirts that we could wear to the cookout we were planning Stateside to celebrate our union. They said:
“U N I T E D
for better for worse
for richer for poorer
in sickness and in health
til death us do part”

He still has his and I’m sure he thinks of it as his wedding celebration T-shirt rather than a Manchester United shirt. DS just looked at it and asked “Why doesn’t it say ‘United States’?”