Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id MAA07244 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:49:10 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3102A6CF94@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: FW: England humour Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 12:33:41 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain X-Filter-Info: UoS MailScan 0.1 [D 1] Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
A very quick, very sharp joke (a bit like the revocation of independence
joke that went around after the Bore/Gush election debacle).
With apologies to our friends across the pond....
Vincent
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> LATEST NEWS...
>
> THE U.S. WORLD CUP SQUAD HAVE JUST ARRIVED IN MUNICH
> TO TAKE FULL CREDIT FOR SATURDAY'S VICTORY.
>
> Subject: FW: CNN Newsflash...And there's more...
>
> And the full story:
>
>
> Hollywood to make film of Munich Victory
>
> Universal Pictures announced today they plan to make a film of the
> momentous football match that took place on Saturday. "Five-One"
> is the tentative title of what could be next year's big summer hit,
> depicting the American national soccer team's stunning victory over
> Germany.
>
> Nicolas Cage heads an all star cast as the captain of the brave US
> Soccer team haunted by the trauma of losing in the 2000 World Cup
> final on penalties and the death of his wife in a riot caused by
> English football hooligans, and finds love in the arms of a female
> sports journalist played by Julia Roberts.
>
> Mel Gibson is the no-nonsense Swedish coach wholeads them
> to glory, with Keanu Reeves, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Will
> Smith playing some of Cage's heroic team mates.
>
> Jeremy Irons is set to star as Sir Nigel Villiers-Smythe, the
> dastardly Englishman who coaches the German team and forces them
> to play with poisoned-tipped studs to try and cheat the heroic
> American team out of victory.
>
> Director Steven Spielberg defended the film-makers' decision to focus
> on the American contribution to the victory over Germany and
> inaccurate and even imagined events in the story, saying, "Obviously
> we've had to take some artistic licence to make the story work on film,
> but I hope that what we produce will be true to the spirit of what
> happened on that famous night."
>
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