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Rugby fever is mounting. So much fever that I hear some of you complaining about being sick of it already. That's the trouble with fevers.
Anyway, we have some more rugby gossip this week for those of you who are highly excited about the Rugby World Cup. General consensus out there in Joe Average country is that we've had enough of the marketing and the rip offs, can we just get on with the games?
We had a huge response to last week's RR counter campaign against the ill-conceived abstain nonsense.
Rightly so, Telecom had an untimely withdrawal; after the plan was leaked in a premature exclamation. I guess they already screw us with their phone bills, so any more sex advice seemed just plain wrong.
Another looming crisis with the abstain campaign – we could see a major conflict arising: with the 'Random Acts of Kindness” day on September 1. We can't imagine a more random act of kindness than offering some good lovin' to someone, but that hardly fitted with the abstinence idea, did it?
Just goes to show how out of touch these clowns in ivory towers are with the grassroots NZ public.
One of the many responses to last week's RR came from Nicole; she and a friend had already made her own All Black jersey for a rugby-themed party.
She writes: 'My best friend and I decided that we were too poor and stingy to go out and buy an official shirt for only one night's wear…so to the sallies we went, dragging the children behind us…we located two identical black tees in our sizes (and with collars too!).
'They went home (the shirts not the kids) with my very artistic friend and after a night, a pot of white paint and a few texts and google searches on how the adidas logo goes, the finished product was presented and I must say they were very impressive!
'We had the most talked about outfit at the party, not to mention the short shorts, fishnets and black rugby socks with stilettos!
So I thought I would share with you our DIY All Black Tees, with our nicknames and of course a number (another reason why your picture jogged my memory). They are something we will definitely keep and wear again, possibly when we watch the game where The All Blacks win the world cup.”
An interesting item arrived in the mail this week, for the AB fanatic who finds that dressing up in black isn't enough – they have to dress the car as well. All Black ‘mirror wraps' are like little socks to pull over your door mirrors.
 This version of the London Olympic rings, doing the email rounds, sent by many RR readers. |
In other sports news, we are pleased to see the end of the nasty riots in London, but there is a bright side to them: It is the inspiration for a series of new events to debut at the London Olympics:
Synchronised Assaulting
Boule the bystander
Shop put (on fire)
Rhythmic jeering
This version of the London Olympic rings, doing the email rounds, sent by many RR readers.
Kickboxing, wrestling, judo and the javelin have all been combined into one giant brawl covering several city blocks.
The pentathlon will now comprise of looting, smashing and brick throwing legs, with Molotov cocktails at the refreshment stations.
Weightlifting now includes the snatch and grab.
The Olympic flame ceremony will be extended and the flame used to torch a series of buildings and any cars parked along the way.
The ‘Minton' has been dropped from Badminton – it is now just plain Bad.