Conference back40::soapbox

    I've never tried it on red clay so I'm not sure how I would perform, as
    a Canadian male.

    
    best sport for spectating and participating???
    
    basketball gets my vote.

>         <<< Note 861.0 by GAAS::BRAUCHER "And nothing else matters" >>>

>  I surprises me 

	you surprises me too, billbob.

 
Funny..I was out for a walk last night and went by some tennis courts in
town and was wondering if many people play tennis anymore.  I recall a time
when one couldn't get on a court without a long wait.


Jim

    B-Ball is almost as bad as tennis. Any sport where you have to watch
    people or a ball or puck or such move back and forth at a high rate of
    speed is useless IMHO. At least B-ball and Hockey have gratuitous
    violence on occasion to make it interesting. Come to think of it,
    tennis can get verbally violent and we see spoiled rich kids throw
    tantrums on occasion.
    
    To watch it's rowing (crewing). Of course, I may be a bit prejudiced as
    my son rows for his school. To participate in I like X-C skiing or
    hiking. Get out into nature. 
    
    I also like to watch pro golf because the scenery is purty and these
    guys are very good at what they do and pro bowling to see if someone
    gets a perfect game on national tv. Horse racing is also fun to watch
    and bet on on occasion. We may get a triple crown winner this year.
    
    Bright Blessings,
    
    PJ

	Jim, if it ever gets warm, maybe people will play tennis outside! :-)

    
    what ever happened to tennis?  it was such a hot sport
    in the late '70s early '80s!  Connors, MacEnroe, Martina,
    Chrissie Evert - they were so much fun to watch!
    
    The men's game turned boring with all those super servers,
    and the fancy schmancy rackets and wickit short points.
    
    Graf is great but she's like a machine on the court (not that
    fun to watch).  Maybe this 16-year old will give her a run for 
    her money.
    
    

	Bonnie, why would she go for Steph's money? With being so good and all
one would think she could earn her own. Stealing is very bad.

    
    glen, D-.
    

    
    D-?? you're being generous, oph.
    
    re: steffi. they used to say the same about Martina  too. Don't forget
    about Pam Shriver. I used to love watching Mary Jo Fernandez play.

    It's all too easy to get injured with tennis. It happened to me just
    last weekend. Watching the French Open, I moved from the sofa to the
    floor in front of the TV so I could follow the path of the ball
    better (it's hard to see against the terre batteau (sp?)). Watched
    from the floor for a half hour or so, then when I got up, I had this
    awful back spasm that took three days to go away.

    Whatever happened to Pat Cash? .... drool!!  I have the Wimbleton match 
    against Ivan Lendl on tape.   Love watching the ending where he climbs
    up the stands to embrace his Dad and the commentator (Bud somebody? 
    always wears loud pants) called him a "Billy goat"

    
    	I love tennis ... my sister and I play, although it's been awhile.
    
    	My other sister has a pair of courts at her townhouse complex, so
    	we go over there occasionally.
    
    	And I have a friend from high school that likes to play, although
    	we haven't played in awhile either.  I see him at the bank every
    	so often and occasionally we mention hooking up.
    

    
    re: hooking up.
    
    slab, some things you need to keep to yourself.

 I heard a tennis tournament broadcast on the radio one time..

    
    jimbob, you are a wild and crazy dude.
    
    Bjorn Borg was the greatest player I ever saw play the game.

	Paul, this is why you should be a professional. You would get paid if
you got injured.

    i'm dangerous.  i gave one guy a black eye and another guy, well, 
    let's just say that today he hasn't reproduced......

You lobbed one into his photocopier?



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    .18
    
    um, 'tine. we were talking tennis, not dates.

>  It is also worth talking about the remarkable 16-year old Martina Hingis
> from Switzerland.  Number one in the world according to the ATP computer,
> she seems headed for a showdown with Steffi.

Steffi's out.  Defeated by Amanda Coetzer.

IMHO, the only game that is good to both watch and participate in is
Rugby.  Where else could you spend a couple of hours with your
head jammed in between the sweaty thighs of two simian forwards,
your hand up between the legs of one, clutching the waistband of his
shorts?  Meanwhile, the opposing 2nd row forward is trying to bite off
one ear while their hooker is flailing his boots not inches from
your other.

I amazed we don't have a Rugby Union note.





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    mark,
    
    sadly enough, so was i :-))  what i can't understand is why they just
    kind of stood there and let it happen!  if you can't return the ball,
    duck, move, something!  just get out of the way!

    
    /re: steffi. they used to say the same about Martina  too.
    
    nah, i don't recall that.  martina would charge the net, she'd
    be all over the place.  saw her once live, in worcester at the
    virginny slims tour.  she moved like a cat!
    

On all fours?

    She never landed on her back.

    Tennis is about the most boring thing on TV, besides golf.  Both of
    these sports are fun to play, but they are definite snooze material on
    the toob.  Great program material for nap time, though.

    
    tube.
    
    glad to help.

    
    .27
    
    steve, you do know the scoring system, right?
    

apparently not..... Steve.... you could find your one true luv on the tennis
court!

    >the commentator (Bud somebody? always wears loud pants) 
    
     Bud Collins. A real schlemeil.
    
     Fave Bud Collins moment: Chrissy Evert just lost to Martina (again),
    and Bud comes over to interview her, asking such incisive questions as
    "how does it feel to lose to her again?" And before he can even open
    his mouth, she says (frostily), "Nice pants, Bud."

Sweet Chrissy had a way of remaining sweet, but not letting anyone getting the
best of her. One of the true all time greats!

Then there's boardsailing.  How come we don't have a boardsailing
note?  Bloody excellent spectator sport and a lot of fun for
spectators. People laugh like a bastard when they watch me sailing.





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    i get bored sailing.
    

	I was on one of those catamaran (sp?) things with a friend of mine
once. He was holding the sail until he saw his dog swimming towards us. At that
point, without warning, he let go of it. I didn't have time to put my hands up.
It hit me in the head. :-)  So I let him join his dog in the water. 



Glen

So, keelhaul a few crewmembers or plunder and pillage, Cap'n Bonney.



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    ttht:   my jokes sink today. 
    
    

    
    	RE: .33
    
    	Colin, if you would be so kind as to start a boardsailing note,
    	there would be more room in this note for discussions on other
    	sports.
    
    	Like, for example ... oh, I don't know, tennis, maybe?
    

    Tennis is boring.  Looks like great excercise though.

    it is, and I love playing it.

Trouble is Shawn, I have observed attempts to start notes dedicated
to a particular topic.  Digressions usually start a nanosecond later.
It's a far better strategy to start a digression and let things run
their course.  If it should transpire that sufficient interest is
generated, our noble and vigilant Mods will create a topic.  That
way, I'm not left looking like a total plonker when no one responds
to my esoteric interests.  

Speaking of sailing, and getting about as far off the topic 
of lawn tennis as I can, cos it's chite boring anyway, me dad
just came back from a cruise round the Med.  The ship was chock
full of wild Canadians and he had a cracking time.  Barcelona to
Marseilles, then across to Italy, a day in Rome, back via Nice
to Barcelona for a tour. He's the colour of old mahogany and
looks ten years younger.  He never seems to get ill or moans
about anything and is determined to live it up.

How dare he enjoy merry retirement while I have to work, the
bugger.  Why, oh why, don't we have a "My Parents" note?




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Ten years younger than old mahogany?  How old is that?

Hmm.  I guess we could cut his head off and count the rings.


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    	RE: .41
    
    	You want a "My parents" note?
    
    	Why not just type REPLY and create one?
    

>      <<< Note 861.44 by BUSY::SLAB "Audiophiles do it 'til it hertz!" >>>

>    	Why not just type REPLY and create one?

	WRITE might work better.

    

    wow, a note!

    
    	RE: Diane
    
    	[whoosh!]
    

    Ayup. Went right by her.

    
    .41
    
    Colin, maybe JJ can take lessons from your Dad. Then again, prolly
    wouldn't do her any good. carry on, mate.

    .28
    
    I spelled it "toob" on purpose... I always spell it this way.
    
    .29
    
    Yes.

     .47  oh - i get it.  sorry.  duh.

     .48  thanks for confirming.  i could follow your example and
	  offer some sort of "explanation", but i won't. ;>

Since Gabriella retired, it just hasn't been the same.

    
    well, i like the way Monica grunts when hitting the ball.

  Sexy, but a real headcase out there...

  bb

	Whoever SHE is.

If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we put a man on 
Martina Navrotilova?

	Whoever SHE is.

	Strike two.

    Sabatini, what a babe. I hated watching her lose all the time. Gorgeous
    Gabby.

    
    gee, glenn, you think so??? You sure Milla's not prettier??

  Speaking of tennis stars :-) we won our match last night in the Digital
 gma geezer doubles league, bringing us to 2-2 in the round-robin with 4
 more to play (9 teams entered).  I think nh has a DEC league also.  This
 is down from as many as 15-16 teams as little as 5 years ago, but it's
 still fun.  They also have a singles league.

  Back in the last labor shortage, tech companies vied with each other by
 providing health clubs and sports facilities.  Wang even had a golf course.
 There are two fine Digital courts at the Stow facility, and they are still
 maintained.  Occasionally we get in a set at lunch there, but the matches
 take too long and are played after work.

  Nowadays, Digital has plants without even showers.  They'd rather we
 were unhealthy, since death and disease are administratively easier than
 other forms of happysizing...

  bb

    
    > .48  thanks for confirming.  i could follow your example and
    >	  offer some sort of "explanation", but i won't. ;>
    
    
    	Heh heh.  8^)
    

    > .48  thanks for confirming.  i could follow your example and
    >	  offer some sort of "explanation", but i won't. ;>
    
     Look on the bright side. At least it _was_ a whoosh. 

  .63  that's the bright side?  um, okay, iffen you say so.

      Sometimes tennis is entertaining to see although these days
      the men's field just doesn't do it for me.  Well, I do like
      to watch Agassi if he is on his game.
    
      There were a couple matches that rank right up with the best
      sports I have ever seen.  #1 (of course) is Borg's final Wimble-
      don victory which was over McEnroe.  4th set tiebreaker went to
      something like 20-18.  Unbelievable.  5th set went to something
      like 10 games to 8.
    
      Battis, I liked Bork a lot, but I think, in his prime, that
      McEnroe was the best.  As an 18 year old, he was already getting
      good enough to give Borg all he could handle.
    
      For the women, I reall like Graph.  I always root for her.
    
    						Tony

I'm surprised no one pointed out that there's a tennis notes
conference.  It's

	tennis::tennis


Any takers ?

Thanks.

/Eric

	Caught up in ASKENET, Eric 8^)?

    
    	RE: .67 [Deb]
    
    	AltaVista must be unreachable or something.
    

At risk of descending into a morass of linguistic precision,
not one response in here is actually on the subject of tennis.
Tennis, strictly speaking, refers to Court or Royal tennis,
sometimes referred to a Real Tennis.  It is a game played
in a court and more akin to squash or racquetball.  The
modern outdoor game of 'Lawn Tennis' evolved from that
ancient game. Both games are ruled by separate national
and international governing bodies.

There should really be a separate "Lawn Tennis" note,
I think.
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    God, Colin! Are you often _this_ boring?!?

    
    glenn, i think they're putting something in the water in ZKO lately.
    lots of weird mumblings from that neck of the woods.

    
    	Maybe they're dumping MGD in to weaken the water or something.
                     

.70

Hang on, I'll check my diary.





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    	RE: .73
    
    	Most people keep theirs in note 12 ... why don't you do the same?
    

It says:

	'No. See "bumblebee tuna" and "beverly".'




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    Is that Glenn at the front of that smoke trail?

    
    Ouchie-wouchie.
    

    
    yowza!!! i think glenn needs a medic!

    I'll admit to the bumblebee tuna, but not the beverly thing.

    anyways, here I sit, smoldering like a bastard!

Mr. Richardson to serve.








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