# Badgers! Footy! ENGLAND!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661>\
**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:** 6\
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**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 6, 2004, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/21 "2004-06-06T09:58:22Z")

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> [@Ponder Stibbons](#):
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> Is it just me, or does it seem likely that the guy who made that animation is from England?

And, I suspect, a graduate of the Univesity Of Wisconsin.  
🙂

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**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/22 "2004-06-06T10:12:58Z")

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Ninjas and lasers and gold?  
(Oh my.)

I get the Guinness and haggis and sheep references. Anyone wanna explain _that_ one?

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**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/23 "2004-06-06T11:48:50Z")

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> [@Usram](#):
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> **AngelicGemma** , your browser needs to be able to play Macromedia Flash animations. Download the plug-in, it’s surely worth it.

Thanks. But for some reason it has started working without me needing to download the plug-in.

I got to see the badgers! Yay!

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**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/24 "2004-06-06T18:45:55Z")

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> [@screech-owl](#):
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> Ninjas and lasers and gold?  
> (Oh my.)
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> I get the Guinness and haggis and sheep references. Anyone wanna explain _that_ one?

Ninjas could be a stay over from the pirate ninja of weebl and bob fame?

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**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 6, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/25 "2004-06-06T18:55:47Z")

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And lasers from Team Laser Explosion\*?

\*also of weebl and bob

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**Author:** ![The\_Llama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@The\_Llama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Llama)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badgers-footy-england/248661/26 "2004-06-06T18:58:15Z")

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I’m so glad that my year of singing “badger, badger, etc” is now over, and I can now sanely sing “footy, footy, etc.”

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