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Anguish wrote:

I'm guessing this where you've assumed I'm American? While my country does have professional baseball teams, we only do it to keep them from realizing we're foreigners. The analogy was chosen because I could lead from a famous name to a less-famous name in the same industry whose fame is mostly associated with his card's value. I'm a nerd, not a sportsball-watcher, and even I know these names. I assumed a vaunted European would be worldly enough to know these things... <Grin>

Honestly, where and who you are doesn't really figure into this. Baseball doesn't exist in Europe, short of a small cohort of dedicated fans who are dwarfed by the number of water polo aficionados. Baseball simply doesn't register in collective European culture. We don't know the rules, we don't know the superstars, to make things worse, we haven't even got a clue what trading cards are and what is their cultural relevance. We get basketball since it's a sport popular in the US and EU, so we know Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Since I'm up north, we know hockey and the name Wayne Gretzky rings a bell. But baseball? I'm as lost as a Texan would be if they were to tell apart CR7, Lewy and The Swan of Utrecht. Sorry!

Hey, pardner! You've got an awful funny way of spelling "Troy Aikman", you sure you're from around here?

Six favorites strike again.

It's just horse stew. I just pan fried nian gao

What is nian gao

I'm talking about the sweet version.

Horse stew!? them's for ridin' not for eatin'!

I fought the spambots! Where's my parade!!

Looks like we've finally reached a self sustaining population of TOZ's.

Loads shotgun, grabs his TOZ caller, whistles for his ol' hunting dog, Zeke.

C'mon boy! Time to thin the herd!

Is that a challenge. That sounds like a challenge.

I'm voting for the Hodag, born in the U.S.A. :-)

Damn straight.

I just skip the glass entirely, I don't need a middleman to get drunk damn it!

Also you should be fine as long as your coffee table ain't constructed from empty Budweiser cases and duct tape.

If a greased pig randomly ran through your house, how would you be able to catch it?

There is nothing random about greased piglets running through our house.

Is there any other way :-)

Hawt dang! Now how'd he git outta tha cellar, She-oot I'd bets Milly Bob let'd him outs ta use tha crapper, F%#+.

Even I don't know what I'm gonna do with this alias, my hand was forced....