Wednesday, May 31, 2006

World Cup Infamy

So it's almost time for bleary eyes and impossibly late hours as we try to stay up for the 2 a.m. telecast of the World Cup matches. It's impossibly cliched, but I notice the best matches are screened right about then.

I'm nursing a hangover this morning - the result of 0.6 litres of beer swishing around in a 33 year old brain. We were welcoming some new colleagues into our office last evening. Some chirpy friend (now ex-friend) just called to say hello, and to remind me about the time I got my picture in the paper whilst watching the finals between England and Brazil. Just figures. I can write an entire article for the ST that takes up half a page, and no one reads it, not even my mother. But one leetle photo of me with my mouth hanging open, and I'm still getting calls about it 4 years down the road. Just kills me.

"Yah! No wonder you look familiar!" says my new colleague. "Can you make your eyes bulge out just like in the photo?"

9 comments:

  1. oh man! everyone remembers that photo. you placed your face so far forward you scared the cameraman. that was also when I jabbed you so bad you refused to talk to me for months :0 oh yah, I remember that ugly shot ;)

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  2. Yeah. Everyone is hilarious. Hur hur hur.

    Gremlin, I vaguely remember that incident and feeling really irritated with you about something. But that's just me and probably thousands of people in Canada as of right now. Maybe you secrete some kind of irritating hormone. Boy am I irritated right now.

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  3. Er... can anyone be kind enough to share with me that photo? :)

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  4. cobalt. I'll find it and let you know ;)

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  5. gremlin, thanks! You know where to find me. :)

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  7. three yellow cards in Croatia's 2-2 draw with Australia at the 2006 World Cup before finally space bar clicker sending him off.. It can be a difficult call for referees – so much so that one of the main jobs of the assistant officials is to just monitor play for offside violations.

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