Paging Mr. St. Helier...

"Dan The Man" wrote .....

A pretty handy bike rider - not quite in the league of Armstrong and the top Europeans, but he makes a good living.

Actually, he nearly didn't make it to the start line, having been held up at (US) immigration, being strip searched - to ensure he wasn't carrying contraband Stelvins - right Dick Neidich ???????

We are usually good at any sport where - (a) We are sitting down (canoeing; equestrian; cycling; motor racing (Scott Dixon!); or (b) There is a large amount of gratuitous violence (rugby union) ;-)

As it happens, I won my first cycling championship way back in 1963, and although I would never have made the elite ranks, I was verging on national representation until I was struck by a motor vehicle whilst competing in Australia - the resulting broken arm, leg and ribs ruling me out of the sport for long enough for me to lose that "killer instinct" required for all sportsmen competing at the top of their game.

Now I restrict my physical activity to fighting with champagne corks !!!!

(c) The highest mountain on earth is involved.

M.

Ah - that place in Denmark, right?

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

Denmark? Not Netherlands?

M.

(d) We are pretty good at cricket, too, but that's in a class of it's own, and doesn't fit any of the above criteria. Explaining it to Americans as a variant of baseball where you don't have to run has been known to produce some enlightenment - but only when there is some good wine available to assist the process.

--brian

Mr. Boutel - You must be Cantabrian - pretty good at cricket?

Are you talking about NZers?

Pretty good? - sorry Brian - remove those rose tinted spectacles!!!!!

The words "pretty" and "good" should be reserved for such tasty morsels as the Evers-Swindell sisters and Sarah Ulmer!

"Brian Boutel" wrote ....

Isn't using the words "American" and "enlightenment" in the same sentence slightly oxymoronic?

In fact, the highest point of Netherlands is 321 m over sealevel - the highest in Denmark 170. The fact that some parts of Netherlands are actually _below_ sea level doesn´t count.

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

Aye, certainly not the 'Caps. Let's wait for them to find a couple of bowlers (the sort who're fit from time to time) and some batsmen with spine, then they might be fairly decent. :)

Why always is the Netherlands involved in this?....:-) We, the Dutch, discovered half of the World, why is that not mentioned? We even discovered Australia but there was no profit for us to be made....:-)

Yes, I do live 5-7 meters below sea level.

Regards. Robèrt

Not any more than any other stereotype.

Dana

Nils Gustaf Lindgren skrev i ZKAig.4410$ snipped-for-privacy@newsb.telia.net dette:

Excuse me, but You seem to understate this figure considerably: The highest point (I prefere the term 'peak') is impressing 172.54 meter!!! (however this is achieved as a result of some digging in the bronze age)

Why has swedes always this condescending attitude just because somone has left a heap of gravel called Kebnekaise in their backyard.

regards Jan

Had to look it up :-) It is Møllehøj 170,86 meter. Seems to be one of the 'peaks' of Ejer Baunehøj :-), the second highest is the soaring Yding Skov

Have to add, though that Jan's figure includes ''added soil" and thus is geographically correct, if not geologically so.

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Oh, that's why there are so many bright Americans? ... Anders

Salut/Hi st.helier,

le/on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:39:38 +1200, tu disais/you said:-

Took the words out of my mouth.

On the other hand You make some pleasant wines. A far more serious form of sportt than hitting a leather wrapped ball of cord with a bizarrely shaped piece of willow.

Mind you, it's no more obscure than Australian rules football which has far more in common with mountain climbing that the noble game of "Soccer".