OT - Rugby World Cup

Alneyan · #1 October 29th, 2003, 05:23 PM

Really? I would rather be English if you ask me, but sadly you cannot choose your mother country. (Unlike in RPGs, but I digress)

Could you please explain how someone able to travel through time would die? I mean, if he was getting old, he could simply shift back to his childhood and then travel forth in time to another period. And if someone killed him, he could prevent the birth of that given individual. Therefore, a being able to travel through time cannot die, if he is clever enough. *Hint hint*

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Growltigger · #2 October 29th, 2003, 06:54 PM

And I believe we are also looking at cross-culturals differences in the Asterix comics as well!?

Panoramix? who is he? I think us WASPS call him Getafix!

As to William, well, being Norman, he wasn't really French was he, more like Norse I think, and as us English say, the Normans may have beaten the Saxons on Senlac Hill, but it was the French (Brettonian) wing that routed!!!

Before I go home, I should throw in the true-Anglo dig that only by using some form of temporal device would allow the French to beat the English

and by the way, you can keep Maurice Chevalier and Sacha Distel, provided we get to keep Beatrice Dahl, Sophie Marceau, Leatitia Casta, Catherine Deneuve (in her younger days) and Tabitha Cash

Unknown_Enemy · #3 October 29th, 2003, 06:55 PM

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Originally posted by Alneyan:
Really? I would rather be English if you ask me, but sadly you cannot choose your mother country. (Unlike in RPGs, but I digress)

Could you please explain how someone able to travel through time would die? I mean, if he was getting old, he could simply shift back to his childhood and then travel forth in time to another period. And if someone killed him, he could prevent the birth of that given individual. Therefore, a being able to travel through time cannot die, if he is clever enough. *Hint hint*

Well, maybe Panoramix was the Time Traveller, except that he solved the temporel paradox.

Alneyan · #4 October 29th, 2003, 07:27 PM

Well, it seems logical the names are different in the case of Asterix. It makes much more sense than changing the location of a battle.

(Agincourt wasn't probably in France in those days)

Erh, UE, do you know all these people that are held captive in Albion? I don't know one or two of these. But at any rate, I, in the name of the French Republic, must regretfully decline your proposition, as we strongly believe your two current hostages love England. *Thinks* And while they are busy toying with their hostages, we will try to invade England once again, as it is the first step of my plan.

Erh, I seem to recall we were speaking of rugby, weren't we? Hopefully, England will play against France, the former being victorious. (How to make friends with about 60 million people in a few seconds)

Growltigger · #5 October 30th, 2003, 09:40 AM

Alneyan, turning back to the rugby, I think it is quite possible that England will play France, and I hope that it will be a good match.

Both of those teams can, on their day, beat anyone in the World so I am looking forward to a damn fine game matching Gallic flair against English discipline and power.

As to the French invading England, I come from Canterbury, and am well used to being invaded on a regular basis every summer by screaming hordes of French school children!

minipol · #6 October 30th, 2003, 01:55 PM

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I hope things do work out that England meet the French in the World Cup, it will just be like Agincourt, Poitiers and Crecy all over again

Ouch trying to pick a fight with the frogs?

Luckily we Belgians do not play rugby at professional level so we are safe in this thread

minipol · #7 October 31st, 2003, 02:00 AM

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Originally posted by Growltigger:
Gravey101, wouldn't surprise me one bit for our Gallic chums to assume that Waterloo was actually just an adjunct to Charlerois and Ligny where they beat the British and the Prussians just before getting royally cucumbered at Waterloo!

Keep in mind that the modern French still dont think even Caesar conquered them, they believe Asterix is the truth and that all of Gaul may well have been conquered, but a small village of indomitable gauls still held out against the invader, mainly through the use of magic potion!!

Hey hey hey! The Belgians (rather the tribes living in the part that is now Belgium) where the Last to stand up to Caesar while the other Gauls tribes where already conquered.
Caesar described our ancestors as "the bravest among the Gaul".
Quote: "Belgae Gallorum Fortissimi"

We might not know how to play rugby but there. lalalalala

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