International I Hate Sports Club

Mrs. Earl wrote:Happy birthday, Abitagirl! I would like to give you a birthday present. I promise to keep Earl from using That Phrase around you. I hope you've had a good day today.

Ha! Yes I did. Thank you!

Thanks! What a great present!

Must be 3 a.m. Australia time. I'm never on at that hour here.

Yeah, pretty much! I don't drink it though. I don't like beer. Actually, I don't really like alcohol in general. Never cared for the taste. So I guess I don't really have any recommendations.

I don't remember shaking in fear last May 21, but then again, it was 5 months ago and I can't remember every single thing I did on that date.

I wonder what he will say when the world doesn't end, assuming he doesn't go into hiding or something.

Happy Birthday Safety!

I'm getting that too! So far it seems to be confined to the Off-Topic forum.

I'm sorry, I'm trying to report them all, but sometimes I just don't feel like it and don't do it. There are just too damn many. I report some only to have more show up. Sometimes it just seems pointless.

Yeah, I heard, and I'm still pissed off about the strike ending, although I guess I had a feeling all along that a football-free fall (well, NFL anyway) was too good to be true. Yeah, I heard something about that... if only they would be true to their word and actually strike! Here in my town, the f...

I used to be sometimes invited, encouraged, whatever, to watch entire football games in the past, and I tried, but I was so bored I couldn't do it. Plus all the constant stopping and starting drove me nuts. I don't know how anybody can stand it. I would usually say I needed a nap or something just t...

Happy Birthday, ChrisOH!

I'm not sure I could say no even to a sports cake.

There was a picture in my local paper, when the US team lost, of people watching that game. You should have seen the looks on their faces. You'd think they were watching some horrible disaster happening right before their eyes. :lol: That picture would be great to see. Any chance of posting it on h...

The World Cup that's been in the news lately is the Women's World Cup, which apparently is held the year after the men's World Cup. The US team lost the final game to Japan, which touched off a few articles online bemoaning how the US just blew a chance to really promote girls' soccer here in Ameri...

It's too bad he's gone because all of a sudden I'm seeing a bunch of "news" about the World Cup, and I want to ask him what the heck is going on because I didn't think it was a yearly thing. Skul? Anybody?

Happy Birthday Skul!

I'd post a skull cake, but it looks like Earl beat me to it.