
aeglos |

aeglos wrote:Dirk Nowitzki was voted Sportsman of the year last night. He is the first team-sportsman to win that title (not surpisingly, a TV station promoted a match of our basketball national Team as "Nowitzki vs Russia")
and in case you're curious:
Sport-Women of the year: Magdalena Neuner, Biathlon superstar (yes, Biathlon is a very,VERY big thing in germany)
Sport-Team of the Year: Borussia Dortmund (soccer of course)So from this I take that A) Dirk plays Basketball. I was unaware that this was a popular sport in Europe. Which is normal American lack of knowledge of the outside world. B) Also was that Biathlon was big anywhere, let alone very, Very big in Germany. C) I already knew Soccer was big in Germany though. It seems be most places, except here where it is mainly a game played by children whose parents drive them to games in minivans, giving rise in the 90's to the moniker the minivan mom.
Dirk plays for Dallas (already pointed out) Basketball before him was not very popular, especally german Basketball, the NBA has a lot of fans here (including me)but german Basketball has the image of a sissy sport for pale Geeks afraid to do real team sport.
Real Team sport means Soccer and Olympic Handball over here.Popular spectator sports beside these two are Formula 1 racing, Biathlon, ski jumping, alpin skiing.
Tennis and Ice hockey where popular but are struggling today.
The German Soccer Fedaration has 6.7 million members organisd in 25.000 clubs with 177.000 teams

lynora |

Also, the zoo yesterday was great. The two Sumatran tiger cubs were out and very active. There was also a koala with a joey about the size of my hand that I didn't even know was going to be there!
Everyone should go to the zoo.
Zoos are so much fun. I think we've been to every zoo in the state, although there is a possibility that we might have missed one. Every one has something unique that makes it cool, even the really little ones. :)
I'm glad you got to see the cute baby animals. :)
Spanky the Leprechaun |

taig wrote:Celestial Healer wrote:I am going to be an RPG Superstah!Lemme give you some advice as a four-time entrant...
Um, wait, never mind.
Your freelancing credits speak for themselves!
2012 is the Year of the Badger.
Honey badger don't give a s+*@. Honey badger is cuh-RAY-zy...

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Celestial Healer wrote:Honey badger don't give a s&@*. Honey badger is cuh-RAY-zy...taig wrote:Celestial Healer wrote:I am going to be an RPG Superstah!Lemme give you some advice as a four-time entrant...
Um, wait, never mind.
Your freelancing credits speak for themselves!
2012 is the Year of the Badger.
I love that video. F#!&ing HB eats a f!*#ing cobra and then sleeps the venom off.

The 8th Dwarf |
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Also, the zoo yesterday was great. The two Sumatran tiger cubs were out and very active. There was also a koala with a joey about the size of my hand that I didn't even know was going to be there!
Everyone should go to the zoo.
Koalas are special forces recon for our platypus overlords. :-)

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Ok - Tebow did his part for my fantasy football team. Now I trail by 17 points going into tonight's 49'ers - Steelers game. I need a couple of sacks from this guy. to have a chance at advancing to the championship.

Mairkurion {tm} |

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:Does anybody have a copy of From the Mixed up files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg handy?I don't have one on hand, but I've read it recently. If you've got a question, maybe I could help.
There's a really cool quote about why it is important to Claudia to have a secret of her very own. Online searchable texts do not yield it, but I know it is in there.

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taig wrote:I didn't know you entered 4 times. Cool. I think I entered thrice or twice.Celestial Healer wrote:I am going to be an RPG Superstah!Lemme give you some advice as a four-time entrant...
Um, wait, never mind.
I've entered every year so far. I submitted this year's entry last week.

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Celestial Healer wrote:Koalas are special forces recon for our platypus overlords. :-)Also, the zoo yesterday was great. The two Sumatran tiger cubs were out and very active. There was also a koala with a joey about the size of my hand that I didn't even know was going to be there!
Everyone should go to the zoo.
They seem to spend all their time sleeping and eating. You might want to recruit better special forces.

The 8th Dwarf |

The 8th Dwarf wrote:They seem to spend all their time sleeping and eating. You might want to recruit better special forces.Celestial Healer wrote:Koalas are special forces recon for our platypus overlords. :-)Also, the zoo yesterday was great. The two Sumatran tiger cubs were out and very active. There was also a koala with a joey about the size of my hand that I didn't even know was going to be there!
Everyone should go to the zoo.
Thats what they want you to think!