Now then ladies!!!!!

[microchips]

Germany to win the Grease Fairies!!!!

You're ON baby. Spain was an early favorite. They just might take it, but Germany is a mighty fine opponent. I'll take the other side of whichever you want. It's going to be pretty even and unpredictable, so a fair bet either way.

River.
.......The Germans took it away now they can give it back!! so i will take Germany to beat the grease fairies if that is OK with you! Karel's team play tonight ( Holland ) and i think it will be Holland-Germany in the final. Anyhow you vision of loveliness, if Germany win you can still buy me $100 of stock of your choice and do with it what you will for twelve months; me on the other hand will double your holdings in BP.L which are 10% up on last week.Hope you had a good weekend and may the best team WIN ..LOL..

[microchips]

River,
.......So what you are saying is that you won the bet by default because the German team were not realy Germans at all but cobbled together from different parts of Europe and beyond!! at least the English were mostly born and bred in England. It has become a farce in most sports that just because some distant relative is native to that country you can if the country wants you become a citizen overnight!;its like saying if a dog is born in a stable its a horse, of course it isnt its still a bloody dog...LOL...

[riverbabe]

Özil the German

Op-Ed Columnist
Özil the German
By ROGER COHEN
Published: July 1, 2010

JOHANNESBURG — No player has fascinated me more at the World Cup than Mesut Özil. He has the languid self-assurance on the ball that comes only to the greatest footballers. Where others are hurried, he has time. He conjures space with a shrug. His left foot can, with equal ease, caress a pass or unleash a shot.

Özil, at 21, oozes class. He’s a German. That’s part of my fascination. Özil’s a Muslim German of Turkish descent who believes he has married traditions: “My technique and feeling for the ball is the Turkish side to my game. The discipline, attitude and always-give-your-all is the German part.”

The technique undid Ghana in the group stage with a fizzing volleyed goal. The attitude left England’s Gareth Barry for dead as Özil burst down the left wing to set up Germany’s fourth goal in its demolition of English illusions. Poor England, consumed by inhibition before Özil’s invention!

Özil’s a German but only just. The years I spent in Berlin in the late 1990s were marked by angry debate as the country moved from a “Volkisch” view of nationality — one based on the bloodlines of the German Volk — to a more liberal law that gave millions of immigrants an avenue to citizenship for the first time. Özil would not have been German until the immigration law of 1999.

It’s this legislation that has birthed the Germany of Özil and his teammates Sami Khedira and Jerome Boateng (Tunisian and Ghanaian fathers respectively) and Cacau (naturalized Brazilian) and Dennis Aogo (Nigerian descent). The Volk have spread wings to hoist Germany into the last eight.

There’s a third reason, beyond brilliance and birthright, for my fascination with Özil. He is probably only on the team because “The Big Man” of the German squad, Michael Ballack, was injured a few weeks before the tournament. "

This is a link, if you want to read his opinion further (or ignore it). The above is the interesting stuff about Özil.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/opinion/02iht-edcohen.html?th&emc=th

[riverbabe]

River,
.......Did you know that the grease fairies are still in the cup? they beat Portugal 1-0 tonight, so theoreticaly they could soon meet your other team later on in the semis i think!! that would make for a match worth watching and maybe another BET!

You're ON baby. Spain was an early favorite. They just might take it, but Germany is a mighty fine opponent. I'll take the other side of whichever you want. It's going to be pretty even and unpredictable, so a fair bet either way.

[microchips]

Grease fairies!!!

River,
.......Did you know that the grease fairies are still in the cup? they beat Portugal 1-0 tonight, so theoreticaly they could soon meet your other team later on in the semis i think!! that would make for a match worth watching and maybe another BET!

[microchips]

Pete,
.......An you wouldnt like it as a WART on the side of ya face either..LOL..

[microchips]

River the bottom line is ......er how BIG shall we make that KNOTHOLE in the barrel ? LOL

Pete/River,
..............If you"ve got a BIG NAIL your gonna need a BIG HAMMER thats where the beer comes in!! so make mine a LARGE one....LOL....

[Peter Hansen]

Heh. Thinking about that knot hole, nevermind, I'll get a "warning."

River the bottom line is ......er how BIG shall we make that KNOTHOLE in the barrel ? LOL

[riverbabe]

Billy when Micro is fitted for that barrel , just makes sure it has a small knot hole in the front , which may be necessary after River bestows a consolation prize kiss on him LOL!

Heh. Thinking about that knot hole, nevermind, I'll get a "warning."

[riverbabe]

River,
.......You are now the proud owner of 23 BP.L shares and so far the buggers are up a whopping 1%...LOL.. next stop 50%?

Microchips, you are a true true gentleman! Can't wait for the payoff one year from now. hee

Remember, if BP can't get that well plugged, Dec. 21, 2012 may truly be the last day of humans on Earth. (The end of the Mayan calendar and Nostradamus' prediction of the end of the world). What a beautiful irony! The earth kicking us out! Very appropriate I think. Well, even Jesus was predicting the end in his day. All those predicted dates of the end before Jesus, and since then, have passed without dire consequences. But, if there is truly structural damage to that thing beneath the sea bed, as stated by a knowledgeable engineer in a leaked report, those relief wells might just be superfluous. 2-1/2 years of oil gushing. Just think about that devastation. Makes you wonder, eh? Anyway, I'll will still own these BP shares! They will be worth something! Wait, I'll be cashing them in before 2012. Okay! I'm on a roll now! (You are sweet. Thank you!)

[microchips]

River,
.......You are now the proud owner of 23 BP.L shares and so far the buggers are up a whopping 1%...LOL.. next stop 50%?

[microchips]

Billy when Micro is fitted for that barrel , just makes sure it has a small knot hole in the front , which may be necessary after River bestows a consolation prize kiss on him LOL!

Pete,
.....Going all of a dither just thinking about it!!!!!
Billy,
Hope i get to drink the contents of the barrel before fitting commences,and it will have to be for nothing as the "WOODEN-TOPS" cost me $1.10 for every minute they tossed it off!!

On a brighter note at least we beat the Aussies at cricket (yawn yawn).

[Peter Hansen]

Billie About That Barrel

micro,
I won't bet with River. She'll leave you wearin' a barrel every time.

-----------billy


Here's a few guys from this site that have bet against River in the last couple years. http://www.corbisimages.com/images/6...U720585INP.jpg

Billy when Micro is fitted for that barrel , just makes sure it has a small knot hole in the front , which may be necessary after River bestows a consolation prize kiss on him LOL!

[billyjoe]

micro,
I won't bet with River. She'll leave you wearin' a barrel every time.

-----------billy


Here's a few guys from this site that have bet against River in the last couple years. http://www.corbisimages.com/images/6...U720585INP.jpg

[microchips]

Micro, I sent you an email from here. If you didn't get it, let me know. River

Still crying in my beer!!