# Badgers! Footy! ENGLAND! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661 "2004-06-04T17:35:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/1 "2004-06-04T17:35:51Z")
[New Badgers animation!!](http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/35/) This time Jonti has blessed us with a little tune celebrating England football. (let it loop and keep watching the scoreline, i thought it was quite clever 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/2 "2004-06-04T17:52:36Z")
Does it end?!? “Butchy”? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/3 "2004-06-04T18:21:18Z")
What is it with you guys and badgers? There was that cricket thing… ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/4 "2004-06-04T18:28:38Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > “Butchy”? ‘Footy’, short for football, known to Americans as soccer. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/5 "2004-06-04T18:49:02Z")
> [@hybrid\_dogfish](#): > > ‘Footy’, short for football, known to Americans as soccer. Yes, I know. But it doesn’t sound like the badgers are chanting “footy”. If anything, it might be “footchy” - but there’s a definite “B” sound in there. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/6 "2004-06-04T18:55:33Z")
> [@hybrid\_dogfish](#): > > ‘Footy’, short for football, known to Americans as soccer. So, the game played with an oval shaped ball by Americans wearing armor or Europeans in their underwear is “Rugby football”, right? ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/7 "2004-06-04T19:02:20Z")
Every now and then there is a twelfth badger on the pitch, in front of the goalpost. I therefore feel that some of the goals should be disallowed. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/8 "2004-06-04T19:15:36Z")
I’m sorry, we do not require any odiferous badgers at this time. But thank you for enquiring. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/9 "2004-06-04T19:40:22Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > I’m sorry, we do not require any odiferous badgers at this time. But thank you for enquiring. Of all the message boards on all the web, why did you have to walk into mine? ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/10 "2004-06-04T20:03:57Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Of all the message boards on all the web, why did you have to walk into mine? I’m not sure how to interpret the intent of your question. Was it in jest, or not? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/11 "2004-06-04T20:06:52Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > I’m not sure how to interpret the intent of your question. Was it in jest, or not? It’s a classical reference. I do believe you’ve been flirted with. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/12 "2004-06-04T20:20:41Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I do believe you’ve been flirted with. Good gad, no. I was trading Bogart quotes. Treasue of the Sierra Madre and Casablanca. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/13 "2004-06-05T00:53:56Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Good gad, no. I was trading Bogart quotes. Treasue of the Sierra Madre and Casablanca. No, no, no. You were _definitely_ flirting. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/14 "2004-06-05T01:53:33Z")
Please forgive the misunderstanding, if any… I knew you were trading quotes, but at first I wasn’t sure that you weren’t peeved at me for showing up in this thread to make a bad joke (as is my wont sometimes). Badgers! Who can resist? Not me. 😃 We now return to the thread already in progress. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Ash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@Mr.Ash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Ash)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/15 "2004-06-05T01:55:18Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Does it end?!? Never. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/16 "2004-06-05T10:00:40Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > So, the game played with an oval shaped ball by Americans wearing armor or Europeans in their underwear is “Rugby football”, right? Not quite, the game played with an oval shaped ball by Americans in armour is referred to here as _American_ football. The sport played, as you out it by “Europeans in their underwear” is rugby football, of one of two types, League or Union. We’ll soon have you americans giving sports their proper names 😉😃 Still, it’s only just this week that I realised that what americans call a zucchini is actually a courgette :smack: Anyway, back to the matter in hand, BADGERS! Is it possible that people are imagining the ‘b’ sound due to their conditioned expectations when they hear the badger song? ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/17 "2004-06-05T21:12:19Z")
The link doesn’t work for me. I want to see the badgers! ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/18 "2004-06-05T23:33:34Z")
It’s the crestfallen look on the face of the snake goalkeeper that does it for me. **AngelicGemma** , your browser needs to be able to play Macromedia Flash animations. Download the plug-in, it’s surely worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/19 "2004-06-05T23:50:27Z")
Wales: Sheep and Dirt??? WTF :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/20 "2004-06-06T00:09:32Z")
Is it just me, or does it seem likely that the guy who made that animation is from England? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661.md?page=2)