Re: Rugby or Association?
| From: | Levi Tooker <lrtooker@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 22, 2004, 6:22 |
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--On Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:03 AM +0100 Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
>
>> Michael Poxon scripsit:
>>
>>
>>
>>> There's a famous case of the
>>> well-known footballer Paul Gascoigne
>>> up before the judge, who on being told Gascoigne's vocation, asked
>>> "Rugger or Association?"
>>>
>>>
>>
>> As an iggerant Yank, I don't get the joke, unless it's simply that
>> no reasonable person would fail to know the answer in the case of this
>> particular football player. You do still have two kinds of football
>> over there, don't you?
>>
>>
>
> Yes, but you only call one of them 'footballers'. There's Association
> Football and Rugby Football(which, in turn, is divided between two sets
> of rules - Rugby League and Rugby Union), true, but only the former is
> ever called 'football', the latter simply 'Rugby'.
>
Actually, we Yanks have been using the term "Association" all
along...as(soc)iation => (soc)cer.