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[CatrionaGrace]

The rest of the state is having a fine snowy winter. We're becoming concerned about having enough summer forage for the equines. It has been drier at my son's place on the sagebrush steppe than at our place closer to the foot of the mountain.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I'm going to enjoy another day of writing today....

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I've never heard anyone in Australia refer to soccer as 'association football'.

That's the name of the sport. From wikipedia:

Association football, commonly shortened as football and named soccer in some locations...

The word "association" in this term refers to the Football Association or the FA, founded in London in 1863, which published the first set of rules for the sport that same year.

It's important to note that this FA is not the same FA as in "Sweet FA" (delicately translated as "Sweet Fanny Adams" or less delicately as "Sweet F*** All"). Warning: do not look at this article on Fanny Adams if you have a sensitive nature. Seriously.

Anyway: football is, of course, very old and dates back to the time that the victors in a battle used to kick around the heads of the losers for sport (possibly as early as the 8th century CE). In medieval times, football had very few rules and could be played by entire villages against other villages, with the goals being a village border, and anything was allowed to get the ball, including using your fists, boots and even knives. English bishops and kings often complained that football was either ungodly or distracting people from archery practice, and tried to ban it repeatedly, without success.

There were several attempts to codify rules, but the game only became slightly manageable when the Football Association took charge in the 1860s.

 

[Schism]

There's a guy on 'some other forum.' He doesn't like me much for some reason. Anyway, he angry emoji'd one of my posts. I named it Clancy.

Clancy the Angry Emoji will be teaching you the rules of the road.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Good morning. Hope everyone has a fine day, including Clancy.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I'm glad we don't have angry emojis here

 

[Schism]

Rofl at the "Ernest Weiner" emoji.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Everyone loves hot dogs

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I'd rather have brauts. Yeah, I know brats is the proper spelling, but it lends itself to misinterpretation in English. I don't want people thinking I eat unruly children.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Yeah, sausage tops it all

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I'm glad we don't have angry emojis here

What about this one?

Everyone loves hot dogs

I used to have a dog who disliked summer weather. He was a hot dog.

He was also goofy as heck, but we loved him anyway.

 

[Louanne Learning]

He was a hot dog.

Was he a wiener dog?

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Yes, he was a boy dog. (I didn't examine the other part too closely). ;-P

To be more precise, he was an adorable golden labrador. Like this one:

Who can resist that smile?

 

[Louanne Learning]

he was a boy dog.

This is what we call a wiener dog in Canada - a dachshund -

 

[CatrionaGrace]

That poor little guy would need an athletic cup should he decide to run across rocky terrain.

 

[Louanne Learning]

My brother has two dogs - a dachshund and a chihuahua - both female - and the chihuahua is always humping the dachshund

 

[CatrionaGrace]

My sister had chihuahuas. They were the most neurotic and pathetic little dogs I ever met in my life.

 

[Louanne Learning]

chihuahuas.

they got to get to know you. My brother's dog licks the heck out of me

 

[Homer Potvin]

Yorkshire terriers take the cake. Satan went door to door last week, spreading death and pestilence, got a few feet up my walk, saw my guy at the window, and backed away slowly.

 

[Naomasa298]

I don't want people thinking I eat unruly children.

They really are the wurst.