Howzat!? Bush and cricket?

POSTED BY: Khyron
UPDATED: Sunday, March 5, 2006 23:30
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KHYRON

Saturday, March 4, 2006 8:30 AM

Yeah, for hockey I was in fact mostly wrong:

One of the oldest of competitive pastimes, the sport of field hockey dates back well before the Ancient Olympic Games. Although the exact origin of the game remains unknown, 4,000-year-old drawings found in the tomb at Beni-Hasen in the Nile Valley of Egypt depicted men playing the sport. Throughout the following centuries, variations of the game were played by a spectrum of cultures ranging from Greeks and Romans to Ethiopians and Aztecs.

From http://www.usfieldhockey.com/history/

As for basketball I wasn't all wrong:

The First basketball type game may have been played by the early Olmec people of ancient Mexico as early as 500 years go. The Aztec, and Mayan cultures also had a game similar to basketball, only instead of a rubber ball they used the decapitated skulls of their conquered foes.

From http://nbahoopsonline.com/Articles/History1.html

CITIZEN

Saturday, March 4, 2006 10:15 AM

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Originally posted by Khyron:
It's about politicians saying this sort of tripe when they feel they need to appease the common folk of the particular nation they're visiting. Would Blair come to America and praise baseball by saying what a great pastime it is, I don't think Americans would buy it, just like I don't think anybody in Pakistan buys that Bush is actually interested in cricket.

Actually I preferred Tony Blair’s comments about the Iraq war and how he thought God wanted him to do it.

I'm sure he's trying to appeal to the religious masses, but it sounds more like:
He actually does think G. W. Bush is God.
He's lying like a, well, a politician.
He's a religious Wako that thinks his wars are Gods will and that God is on his side, i.e. a Fundamentalist [any religion goes here]…

I see some fun times ahead…

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
You should never give powers to a leader you like that you’d hate to have given to a leader you fear

DREAMTROVE

Saturday, March 4, 2006 4:36 PM

I just read Blair's comments. OMFG. I don't know if Bush has said this, there was a stir when one of our allies said it. Blair is a liar, of course, and not really a christian, I'm surprised that the religious demographic in the UK is strong enough to be worth going after. Well, as you almost said, End Times ahead.

KHYRON

Saturday, March 4, 2006 5:50 PM

There's a short clip of Bush playing cricket on the BBC main news page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
The link is on the right-hand side of the page.

I have to admit that he didn't make a fool out of himself. Even though he's got no experience when it comes to playing cricket, he's still better at it than at his actual job.

DREAMTROVE

Saturday, March 4, 2006 9:09 PM

Apparantly he actually can do this sort of stuff. He plays golf. He can't run a country though. Or a sentence.

FLETCH2

Sunday, March 5, 2006 3:11 AM

Errr no.... there is no religious demographic worth going for. Tony does actually believe it in fact once he steps down as PM most expect him to formally convert to Catholicism like his wife and kids (we have constitutional rules that mean that the PM and the monarch have to be at least nominally Anglican. Disraeli, who was racially Jewish was Anglican when he was PM.)

DREAMTROVE

Sunday, March 5, 2006 3:21 AM

Fletch,

Oh dear. If it was just Tony lying again, it wouldn't be nearly so disturbing.

SIMONWHO

Sunday, March 5, 2006 11:30 PM

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Originally posted by Fletch2:
Errr no.... there is no religious demographic worth going for. Tony does actually believe it in fact once he steps down as PM most expect him to formally convert to Catholicism like his wife and kids (we have constitutional rules that mean that the PM and the monarch have to be at least nominally Anglican. Disraeli, who was racially Jewish was Anglican when he was PM.)

The Monarch can't be Catholic due to the Settlement Act of 1701 (don't be impressed, I had to look it up) what with the King/Queen being the head of the Church of England whereas there is no law against a Catholic being in Downing Street.

Disraeli was baptised and raised as an Anglican but thought of himself as a Jew, even commenting in Parliament when racially insulted:

"Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon."

Snappy comeback, no?

And yes, cricket, a wonderful game to threaten to take foreign friends to see.

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