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ORIGINAL: sprior

Speaking of traditions, anyone remember the field gun crews at the Royal Tournament?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxz4aPoudv8

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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Of course not, I'm sane.

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ORIGINAL: sprior

Of course not, I'm sane. When I was on Whale Island doing explosives traing the Pompey field gun team used to praceice next to our class room. It was cool watching them.

I did do the Brickwoods field gun but that's tame by comparison.

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Yep, they gave me a certificate to prove it when they let me out.

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Are these breechloading guns, or muzzle loaders?

"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished."
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.

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ORIGINAL: Mynok

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Yep, they gave me a certificate to prove it when they let me out.

Of Bedlam?

"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished."
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

There was absolutely nothing to watch last night.....so I ended up watching the world soccer report.

You Brit guys have a bewildering number of teams....with no less bewildering names. East Brom, East Ham, West Ham, Ham on Rye, Ham and Eggs, Blackpool, Blackburn, Slightburn, Notburnedatall, Wolves, Sheep, Wolvesinsheepsclothing, Sheepinwolvesclothing, Antsingeraffesclothing (sorry Eddie), Arsenal (gotta admit thats a very cool name), Scunthorpe (be careful how you pronounce that), Sheffield Wednesday (I think it sucks to only have your club once a week)......I could go on, but I've probably already offended every Brit within earshot.

Warspite1

I was only offended when you said Arsenal was a very cool name... Okay, okay I admit if it wasn't for the fact that they are %$@?!@ Arsenal, then yes it would be a very cool name. Especially given their history. Having originally been based in Woolwich, home of the Royal Arsenal. They used to have a classic club badge with a great cannon, a latin motto etc, but they changed it to some simple dumbed down cannon design on a non-descript background (see what happens when you muck about with tradition?).

As for the clubs: e.g. Aston Villa, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Sheffield Wednesday , Preston North End , Plymouth Argyle and of course the piece de resistance Tottenham Hotspur each has their name, club colours, nick-name, badge and ground (sadly the ground names are changing as clubs move to proper stadiums rather than the shacks they played at in nineteenth century) but otherwise these things are for the most part unchanged down the years. Most of the 92 league clubs are around 100 years old - a great many, well over that figure.

Priceless...

As for Scunthorpe - there is worse. One of the TV channels took to using just two letters for each club to advertise the score in the top right hand corner of the TV. Nearly all clubs have well known short names, so using two letters was a rather stupid idea in the first place. However, they binned the idea not long into the project - no doubt because Colchester United v Northampton Town would have been a little embarrassing.....

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

"It's called tradition Maybe one day you colonial chaps will be able to have some oy your own."

We do have our own sports traditions. To me, the coolest (and most widespread) is college football (american football, of course). We have 116 Div I teams, and hundreds more in smaller divisions.

My own alma mater, the University of Georgia, has been playing intercollegiate football since 1892. Our oldest rivalry is with this year's national champions: Auburn University. These two schools have played 114 annual games since 1892 (no team fielded in either 1917 or 1918 and there was another year or two where we didn't play) and Auburn leads the series 54-52-8. However, in total points scored in the games, UGA leads 1809 - 1771. The truly interesting part of this rivalry is that both teams have a winning record in the opponent's stadium - something that is nearly unheard of in such a long running rivalry.

Professional sports have their own traditions here, but the teams are not as widespread as your football teams. Baseball has the largest number of professional teams, soccer the least.

I happen to prefer collegiate sports as I love the traditions that have developed over the years. The Army-Navy game, for example, has been played on a neutral field since 1899 and even the enlisted men in both services love to brag about victories (even though the cadets of both academies go on to become officers).

At Auburn University, victories are celebrated by "rolling" (throwing rolls of toilet paper) some oak trees on a downtown corner. This tradition has been severely hurt this winter because a fan of their most hated rival Alabama poisoned the trees. At my school victories are celebrated by students ringing the chapel bell all night (as well as getting totally plastered, like anywhere else).

Professional sports have rivalries, but few traditions - especially since the advent of "free agency" (except for the tradition of the Yankees having the biggest payroll in their sport).

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ORIGINAL: sprior

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Are these breechloading guns, or muzzle loaders?

Breech loaders

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

There was absolutely nothing to watch last night.....so I ended up watching the world soccer report.

You Brit guys have a bewildering number of teams....with no less bewildering names. East Brom, East Ham, West Ham, Ham on Rye, Ham and Eggs, Blackpool, Blackburn, Slightburn, Notburnedatall, Wolves, Sheep, Wolvesinsheepsclothing, Sheepinwolvesclothing, Antsingeraffesclothing (sorry Eddie), Arsenal (gotta admit thats a very cool name), Scunthorpe (be careful how you pronounce that), Sheffield Wednesday (I think it sucks to only have your club once a week)......I could go on, but I've probably already offended every Brit within earshot.

Warspite1

I was only offended when you said Arsenal was a very cool name... Okay, okay I admit if it wasn't for the fact that they are %$@?!@ Arsenal, then yes it would be a very cool name. Especially given their history. Having originally been based in Woolwich, home of the Royal Arsenal. They used to have a classic club badge with a great cannon, a latin motto etc, but they changed it to some simple dumbed down cannon design on a non-descript background (see what happens when you muck about with tradition?).

As for the clubs: e.g. Aston Villa, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Sheffield Wednesday , Preston North End , Plymouth Argyle and of course the piece de resistance Tottenham Hotspur each has their name, club colours, nick-name, badge and ground (sadly the ground names are changing as clubs move to proper stadiums rather than the shacks they played at in nineteenth century) but otherwise these things are for the most part unchanged down the years. Most of the 92 league clubs are around 100 years old - a great many, well over that figure.

Priceless...

As for Scunthorpe - there is worse. One of the TV channels took to using just two letters for each club to advertise the score in the top right hand corner of the TV. Nearly all clubs have well known short names, so using two letters was a rather stupid idea in the first place. However, they binned the idea not long into the project - no doubt because Colchester United v Northampton Town would have been a little embarrassing.....

Thanks for the info Warspite. Its always interesting to know the backstories. Most countries have them. Spartak Moscow was formed in the 20 as team of guys from various factories. Dynamo Moscow was the Moscow police team, etc.

As for team initials, I think it might have dawned on them after Nigeria played Germany in the world cup.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: sprior

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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Next question:

What is the real difference between scn 1 and scn 2?

I have played scn 1 one time as the Allies. With my WiTP PBEM experience am I ready for an AE PBEM or do I need to learn more of the AE quirks first? I now have a lot of free time on my hands and miss being baffled and battered by a human opponant.

Scn2 has Japan loaded for bear with extra ground units, more a/c production (and pilots I think) and extra naval units.

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ORIGINAL: Crocky

Hey guys ..... if anyone was looking 4 me survived house is damaged no power or water ......

Poor old Christchurch estimate 500 buildings to come down in the central city


http://www.stuff.co.nz/

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ORIGINAL: Crocky

Hey guys ..... if anyone was looking 4 me survived house is damaged no power or water ......

Poor old Christchurch estimate 500 buildings to come down in the central city


http://www.stuff.co.nz/

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ORIGINAL: Crocky

Hey guys ..... if anyone was looking 4 me survived house is damaged no power or water ......

Poor old Christchurch estimate 500 buildings to come down in the central city


http://www.stuff.co.nz/

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: Crocky

Hey guys ..... if anyone was looking 4 me survived house is damaged no power or water ......

Poor old Christchurch estimate 500 buildings to come down in the central city


http://www.stuff.co.nz/

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits"- Darwin Awards 2003

"No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: sprior

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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Next question:

What is the real difference between scn 1 and scn 2?

I have played scn 1 one time as the Allies. With my WiTP PBEM experience am I ready for an AE PBEM or do I need to learn more of the AE quirks first? I now have a lot of free time on my hands and miss being baffled and battered by a human opponant.

Scn2 has Japan loaded for bear with extra ground units, more a/c production (and pilots I think) and extra naval units.

I'm told higher pilot experience also.

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits"- Darwin Awards 2003

"No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

RUPD!!!!!!!!

How have you been?

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits"- Darwin Awards 2003

"No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

It is a slow day in the small Colorade town of Pumphandle and
streets are deserted.
Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on
credit.
A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel,
and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms
upstairs to pick one for the night.
As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs
next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt
to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his
supplier, the Co-op.
The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the
local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to
offer her "services" on credit.
The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the
hotel owner. The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the
counter so the traveler will not suspect anything.
At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the
rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.

No one produced anything.
No one earned anything...
However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future
with a lot more optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how a "stimulus package" works.

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley