Bad news, good news

Bad news:

1. My son broke his arm last night playing soccer.

2. Detroit lost the NBA finals.

3. Kevin Trudeau's book is #22 on the Amazon best seller list.

Good News:

1. So far, only $30 in copays (emergency room treatment, 6 x-rays,
orthopedist review, splint, cast, sling, and 30 Vicodin tablets) and the
soccer league has sent a secondary insurance form to recover that.

2. The NBA season is over.

3. The reader reviews of Kevin Trudeau's book on Amazon.com.

Richard Henry wrote:

Bad news:

1. My son broke his arm last night playing soccer.

Good News:

1. So far, only $30 in copays (emergency room treatment, 6 x-rays,
orthopedist review, splint, cast, sling, and 30 Vicodin tablets) and the
soccer league has sent a secondary insurance form to recover that.

This is the only important news. Hope he mends quickly.

--
Cheers, Bev
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The people who don't know what they're doing and the people who
don't realize it are generally the same people." -- DAbel

Richard Henry wrote:
Bad news:

1. My son broke his arm last night playing soccer.

He needs to work on those stiff arm tackles then, his technique is evidently
a bit suss.

ant wrote:
Richard Henry wrote:

Bad news:

1. My son broke his arm last night playing soccer.


He needs to work on those stiff arm tackles then, his technique is evidently
a bit suss.


Soccer? Tackles? Sounds more like rugby.

Shall we get that thread moving?

Or shall we start a cricket thread, where nothing moves.

An English friend was going to take his American wife
to her first cricket match. I told her to bring a book.

VtSKier

VtSkier wrote:
ant wrote:
Richard Henry wrote:

Bad news:

1. My son broke his arm last night playing soccer.


He needs to work on those stiff arm tackles then, his technique is
evidently a bit suss.


Soccer? Tackles? Sounds more like rugby.

The umpire will spring you if you play it like that.

Shall we get that thread moving?

Or shall we start a cricket thread, where nothing moves.

An English friend was going to take his American wife
to her first cricket match. I told her to bring a book.

She'll miss all the good bits then.

"ant" wrote in message
...
Richard Henry wrote:
Bad news:

1. My son broke his arm last night playing soccer.

He needs to work on those stiff arm tackles then, his technique is
evidently
a bit suss.

Although he was playing forward, the coach told him to mark the opposite
right forward. So he was back in front of our goal, fell trying to get the
ball from his opposite, whose shot then bounced off him. He jumped up,
tried to get the ball again, fell again, but this time landed on his left
arm. The keeper was able to scoop up the ball and punt it free. When the
ref saw the angle in his forearm, he called halftime.

ant wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

Shall we get that thread moving?

Or shall we start a cricket thread, where nothing moves.

An English friend was going to take his American wife
to her first cricket match. I told her to bring a book.

She'll miss all the good bits then.

Howzat?

-Walt

"Walt" wrote in message
...
ant wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

Shall we get that thread moving?

Or shall we start a cricket thread, where nothing moves.

An English friend was going to take his American wife
to her first cricket match. I told her to bring a book.

She'll miss all the good bits then.

Howzat?

Just as she gets absorbed in some interesting part of the book (on page 165,
for instance) there will be a moment of action on the grass, and the
disturbing cries of "Well played!" will break her train of thought.

I'm really disappointed in the direction this thread is taking. I was
hoping (in a "passive-aggressive" way) that we would get into a discussion
of Kevin Trudeau.

Richard Henry wrote:
"Walt" wrote in message
...
ant wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

Shall we get that thread moving?

Or shall we start a cricket thread, where nothing moves.

An English friend was going to take his American wife
to her first cricket match. I told her to bring a book.

She'll miss all the good bits then.

Howzat?

Just as she gets absorbed in some interesting part of the book (on
page 165, for instance) there will be a moment of action on the
grass, and the disturbing cries of "Well played!" will break her
train of thought.

Cricket isn't as polite as some think. There's a fair bit of chit chat goes
on out there (and always has, we didn't invent sledging). There's books
written with the best sledges (from Dr Grace himself, and down the ages),
but one that springs to mind is when our bowler Glen McGrath asked
Zimbabwean batsman Eddo Brandes why he was so fat and he said "because every
time I have sex with your wife she gives me a biscuit." (there's much
worse).

ant wrote:
Richard Henry wrote:
"Walt" wrote
ant wrote:
VtSkier wrote:

An English friend was going to take his American wife
to her first cricket match. I told her to bring a book.

She'll miss all the good bits then.

Howzat?

Just as she gets absorbed in some interesting part of the book (on
page 165, for instance) there will be a moment of action on the
grass, and the disturbing cries of "Well played!" will break her
train of thought.

Or perhaps a loud LBW appeal from the wicket keeper?

That'd certainly make me put down my Proust.

Cricket isn't as polite as some think.

There's an old story about a group of cricket fans who were quite rowdy
and loutish. Hoons, you might say. Anyway the cricket authorities
determined that the only way to save the reputation of the game was to
cordon off an area for those loud uncouth rowdy fans so they wouldn't
bother the gentlefolk. Unfortunately, the number of rowdies soon grew
to where they wouldn't fit inside their designated area anymore, so the
authorities had to expand it. Then they had to expand it again. And
again, until it became quite large. Today this area is known as Austrailia.

-Walt