# David Beckham's sausage

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-beckhams-sausage/111987>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 2, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-beckhams-sausage/111987 "2002-06-02T04:01:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-beckhams-sausage/111987/1 "2002-06-02T04:01:56Z")

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A sausage which makers claim has the exact curve of David Beckham’s famous free-kick against Greece has gone on sale in London.

[Supermarket bends banger like Beckham](http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020531/80/d04ym.html)

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-beckhams-sausage/111987/2 "2002-06-02T04:42:00Z")

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There Will Always Be An England.  
[http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4758215](http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4758215)

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> Flight engineers helped map the trajectory of the England captain’s curler which clinched a place in the World Cup, it was claimed.
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> The result is a 210mm (8ins) long pork chipolata said to match the exact angle of Beckham’s injury time goal.
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> Bill Crowther, an aerospace engineering lecturer at the University of Manchester, has been studying the science behind football free-kicks for the last three years with computer simulations.
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> Using the same technology he analysed the flight of the Beckham’s kick, and even checked the results in a wind tunnel.

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**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-beckhams-sausage/111987/3 "2002-06-02T07:14:48Z")

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Will it throw a tantrum if you drop it next to a chorizo?

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-beckhams-sausage/111987/4 "2002-06-02T07:46:41Z")

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You know, specialty meats shaped to resemble the trajectory of a soccer kick are _ **not** _ what I expected to read about given the thread title.

I’m disappointed, actually. 😃

jayjay