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This is true.

Too bad we don't get to pick who gets to be in our party.

You folks are mentally masturbating again.

Did you read my previous post? Granted it was not the most enlightening thing ever written but it did serve a purpose.

Or porpoise if one is inclined to swim. Or declined to be- as it may be.

Oh, I got it way back when - right in the kisser.

An aeon and a half ago we played jungle rules soccer in grade school, before class and at recess. I don't think we had any nets, and I don't even recall scoring being a part of the game. But we did vigorously chase the ball around, kicking each other in the shins and sometimes the ball. Unlike what the Botox Mambo was saying, it was an endlessly competitive game and very individualistic (maybe that's why soccer has seemed to have trouble catching on in the U.S. - we don't respect organization and rules, preferring frantic chaos instead? Or maybe it was just that nobody had the rules, there warn't no internet back then.)

I clearly remember the clean and hard kick a classmate executed, not four feet from my head (it was grade school, I was only 4 feet tall), directly into my face. I walked around for the next half hour feeling like my visage was a flat, numb full moon.

What was the question, again?

I was an avid soccer player until just 10 years ago. As I aged I went from striker, midfield, defense to keeper (less and less running involved). If I could find a dozen or so mates, I'd play again, but, truthfully, a broken right ankle keeps me from kicking like I used to. The beauty of soccer is the ability to have people of various abilities and activity levels participate. That, I think, is why AC is agin' it - too egalitarian. Poor people play it the world over. She forgets that even Rome endorsed "bread and circuses".

You should really stay off that broken ankle until it heals up.

LoL - well played, sir.