What I like about the Mudcat is the thread drift, when it ends up with you learning something you hadn't thought you didn't know.

I wonder how many times meetings between Americans and people from the rest of the world speaking English have been confused because someone have used the term "own goal". I mmean, you can imagine a war starting out of a confusion like this.

"Expelling your airbase from our country would definitely be an own goal for me," said the Prime Minister.

"In that case I don't think we have anything left to talk about" said the President, and the negotiations came to an abrupt halt as he walked out...