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[Internet Oracle <[email protected]>] Internet Oracularity #870-09
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 96 22:46:57 -0500
From: Internet Oracle <[email protected]>
Subject: Internet Oracularity #870-09
Selected-By: Mark Lawrence <[email protected]>
The Internet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:
> Oh Oracle Most Wise, could you tell me why is football called football
> when the only thing they do with their foot is kick field goals and
> extra points?
And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
} As you may know, football is only called by that name in North America.
} While there is nothing wrong with the name, it doesn't really make
} sense. In the rest of the world, Soccer is called football. Football
} is then called lacrosse. (deep breath) Lacrosse is called hockey,
} hockey is called wrestling, pro wrestling is called acting, and amateur
} wrestling is called basketball(you don't want to know why), which is
} called baseball, baseball is called tennis, tennis is racquetball,
} which is dodgeball which is boxing. (gasp) Boxing is known as
} brawling, and female boxing is known, of course, as soccer. Lastly,
} acting is called thespianism in the rest of the world.
}
} You owe the Oracle a question about the metric system.------- End of forwarded message -------
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