MLS isn't a football federation, it's a league...in the USA. And that's the country that calls football 'soccer' but otherwise good point well made.:ffsparr:
I like that, cheers. I've long maintained that the French don't do mediocre when it comes to music. It's either brilliant or spectacularly rubbish. I don't know if you've heard of another Frenchman called Mr Day but he's well worth checking out. This track is worthy of Paul Weller I reckon...
I discovered that short story via the Ghost In The Shell Anime boxset bizarrely enough. There's a lot of references to Salinger and it turns out that the Japanese have a love affair with his writing.
I think a lot of truth in them having been critical in the Pacific and Asia but I reckon the Russians were the key factor in Europe. The US involvement shortened the war considerably but then so did Alan Turing.
I'd only ever read 'Catcher In The Rye' by JD Salinger and hated it, thinking him seriously over-rated but after reading some of his short stories, I completely changed my mind. There's one titled "The Laughing Man" with this paragraph in it:
"Over on third base, Mary Hudson waved to me. I...
Here's a question related to the 4th of July that's long puzzled me. Why do Americans do their dates as M/D/Y (e.g. 9/11) but then refer to their most important date in their calendar as the 4th of July?
It was almost certainly posh boy, public school slang though to differentiate between rugby and football and that's why it has always sounded wrong and why we and the rest of the world say 'football'. It's FIFA, EUFA, CONCACAF, FA, OFC, CAF. All those letter Fs and not a single letter S in sight.
Their big day innit, the 4th of July. Despite their thick as shit President, their obsession with race, the mangling of the English language, their weird way of writing the month before the day, Adam Sandler, their 'thing' with guns and their whooping when polite clapping would suffice, there's...