Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Ruba'i for FIFA

Soccer joins our separate shores
And brings our world together.
A sport that cleaves us, man from man,
Is one that I'd like better.
-Gandhi
UNITY, n. Distance.

11 comments:

TLP said...

Here I am first, with absolutely nothing to say. I find soccer boring. I guess that distances me from most of you.

My word verifier is mismate. So, I'll use that as my definition:
Unity: mismate

Anonymous said...

UNITY, n. As do the Olympics. Bravo to the World Cup. Forget your troubles and play ball. No politics, just good old fashion sport.

k. riggs gardner said...

UNITY, n. Distance

1. Phil Mickelson won the Masters 2010 and THE Green Jacket with 16 under par in Augusta, Georgia this past April.

or ...

2. A JetBlue non-stop flight to JFK?

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k. riggs gardner said...

1a. David Duval did NOT win the Green Jacket with 15 under par.

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k. riggs gardner said...

Ruba'i, n.

1. Arabic for "quatrain", and is used to describe a Persian quatrain, or its derivative form in English and other languages.

2. In the Islamic world the "ruba'i" designated a quarter-dinar, weighing 1.05 grams of gold.[4] The ruba'i had been minted by the Muslims in Sicily, unlike the Muslim rulers of North Africa, who preferred the larger dinar.[5]

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cooper said...

United: The harder to destroy you my dear...

What has always impressed me about soccer, besides the fact that I played it, though badly, in high school, is the bodies of the players...;)

Anonymous said...

soccer did bring South Africa together,so i am told

distance is now measured in hours
not miles....
as for unity
humanity has yet to give final arguments to the jury

peace

quilly said...

UN-, prefix meaning "not"

-ITY, suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing state or condition

UNITY, n. the state or condition of being "not"

tsduff said...

I've never been a soccer head.

Doug The Una said...

Not me, TLP. I don't watch much.

Thom, it's nice to see the whole world complaining about the refs with one voice, isn't it?

Karen, golf's another sport I don't follow. 15, huh?

Actonbell, for introverts like us, absolutely.

Cooper. I don't watch soccer, but I can almost tell when a woman has played it.

Bear, the jury's busy texting anyhow.

Quilly, that was very Hindu.

Me either, Terry.

Anonymous said...

Indeed my friend :)