BS: March 19 - A Good Day!

Subject: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: CET
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 12:45 PM

Wales 30 - Ireland 22, and the Grand Slam! (This will be as clear as mud to most non-UK Catters. It refers to rugby.)

Also, my birthday, for which a friend of mine wrote me a very good song as a present.(not about me or my birthday, thank goodness)

Edmund

Subject: RE: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: khandu
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 01:31 PM

I know nothing of rugby, nor football, nor baseball nor any sich sports, but I (& Joe Offer!) do know something of birthdays (Joe knowing more than I, being that he has enjoyed more of them than I.)

So a belated happy birthday to you CET! A song is a grand gift for a birthday!

ken

Subject: RE: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: GUEST,*Laura*
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 01:33 PM

I would have preferred a slightly different score...

Subject: RE: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: CarolC
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 01:39 PM

Happy Birthday, Edmund.

Subject: RE: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 01:47 PM

Happy B'day!! Rugby... sigh. I can only wish. Here it's baseball, basketball, reruns of old hockey games. Even the best curling is over. We get a few soccer games per week. We get one rugby game per week, when it's Six nations or another of the big leagues, so I haven't seen a rugby game in weeks. We get one, one, ONE game of Ozzie footy a year, A YEAR!

Subject: RE: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: Peace
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 01:49 PM

Happy Birthday, CET.

Wot's rugby?

Subject: RE: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: bbc
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 01:56 PM

Happy belated, Edmund! Today is mine.

best from bbc

Subject: RE: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: Pistachio
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 02:36 PM

Belated birthday wishes Edmund. Well done Wales.
I won't repeat the Scotland / England score - but my husband and kids' country won... and it's my birthday on Tuesday (!) - hope to have something to smile about!
H.

Subject: RE: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 02:42 PM

Gee, and in 2002 Ireland beat Wales.

I was even there, well, in Ireland anyway, at the time.

The Welsh took it philosophically, only wrecking four pubs, burning two towns, and beating up fewer than forty Irish -- the men with them were a bit harsher, though.

Happy Birthday, belated or otherwise.

Subject: RE: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 02:48 PM

Happy B'day bbc.

Subject: RE: BS: March 19 - A Good Day!
From: CET
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 03:41 PM

Thanks, all, and many happy returns to you, bbc.

If it was any other game, I'd be wearing my Irish jersey and cheering for Brian O'Driscoll, Peter Stringer and the lads. We're luckier in Ottawa than a lot of places - two venues had the satellite subscription for the Six Nations from Setanta Sport, so I watched all three matches yesterday at an Irish pub in the Byward Market. There were an amazing number of red jerseys, but the Irish crowd were friendly, even when some of us were singing Cwm Rhondda and Sospan Fach.