Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA08077 (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 20:19:19 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.151] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: FW: England humour Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 15:14:13 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F220w8k69RKLpgTFur2000084f8@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Sep 2001 19:14:13.0372 (UTC) FILETIME=[1D49B3C0:01C13708] Sender: fmb-bounces@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: FW: England humour
>Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:54:52 -0700
>
>Dear Scott,
>
> > If soccer were so important, Dennis Miller would be announcing in the
>booth
> > during "Monday Night Soccer", with sidekicks like Pele and any other
>famous
> > soccer player there may have ever been.
>
>If soccer were so important, more people would watch the World Cup than
>the Super Bowl.
>
>Bill
>
>P. S. BTW, they do. ;-)
>
>
Popularity is hardly a criterion of worth. Case in point...the rapid
proliferation of "boy bands" such as Backstreet Boys and N'Sync branching
from their primordial ancestor New Kids on the Block.
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