# Thank god the damm thing is over
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [June 30, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692 "2002-06-30T13:26:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/1 "2002-06-30T13:26:32Z")
Finally this horrible world cup is over. Unfortunately those damm brazilians won again. Damm those germans why couldn’t they win?
This is a rather small rant but I would like to add that I propose the abolition of this so called “sport event”. It has nothing of sport and little of event.
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### Author:  [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/2 "2002-06-30T13:31:25Z")
😃 - What’s Spanish for ‘sour grapes’ ?
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### Author:  [@Mersavets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mersavets)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/3 "2002-06-30T13:34:59Z")
Malvinas
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### Author:  [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/4 "2002-06-30T13:42:32Z")
That’s a bit unnecessary, \*\* Mersavets\*\*. **Estilicon’s** just having a little fun.
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### Author:  [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/5 "2002-06-30T13:49:02Z")
My SO is currently sulking about the fact that Brazil won.
He’s wearing a retro Brazil shirt while he sulks. I have pointed out the cognitive dissonance that this presents.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/6 "2002-06-30T14:55:04Z")
Abolition of the World Cup?
Not until Holland win it at least once, buddy.
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/7 "2002-06-30T15:02:20Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Coldfire \*
> \*\*Not until Holland win it at least once, buddy. \*\*
And on that future day, I will be in the stands, in my beautiful android body, having just arrived on the 6:00 shuttle from Jupiter that morning…
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/8 "2002-06-30T15:17:19Z")
Hey! It’s not _that_ unlikely! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/9 "2002-06-30T16:02:47Z")
You don’t know what super secret engineering projects **Anthracite** might have been working on 😉
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### Author:  [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/10 "2002-06-30T16:08:50Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Anthracite \*
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> And on that future day, I will be in the stands, in my beautiful android body, having just arrived on the 6:00 shuttle from Jupiter that morning… \*\*
Just don’t fly into Chicago–the city will be on fire celebrating the Cubs’ World Series win.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/11 "2002-06-30T16:21:09Z")
Will President Nader be in attendance?
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/12 "2002-06-30T16:24:26Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Coldfire \*
> Hey! It’s not _that_ unlikely! 🙂
Holland winning or the android body?
I think we already know…hee hee hee.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/13 "2002-06-30T16:26:05Z")
You bastards just wait until Holland beat Burkina Faso in the 2006 word cup finals. Buncha pricks.
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### Author:  [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/14 "2002-06-30T16:30:01Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Estilicon \*
> \*\*This is a rather small rant but I would like to add that I propose the abolition of this so called “sport event”. It has nothing of sport and little of event. \*\*
I beg to differ. It is a HUGE event, it’s the “sports” part that’s increasingly missing.
Welcome to the world of Nike, Adidas and…FIFA!
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/15 "2002-06-30T18:03:45Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Coldfire \*
> \*\*You bastards just wait until Holland beat Burkina Faso in the 2006 word cup finals. Buncha pricks. \*\*
It’s not that impossible. Weren’t you guys known as the the feared “Orange Crush” or the “Dangerous Dikes” or “The Lost Dutchmen” … or something like that at one time?
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/16 "2002-06-30T18:07:34Z")
I believe we’ve settled on **The Potsmoking Carrots** for the 2006 campaign.
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### Author:  [@blinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinx)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/17 "2002-06-30T18:09:40Z")
Thank God… maybe now they will show something else than sports in tv for a change… oh wait - it’s time for Tour de France.
☹
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### Author:  [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/18 "2002-07-01T03:14:32Z")
Mersavets once a wise man said: “It is better to shut the fuck up and make people believe you are a fucking moron than open your mouth and disperse all possible doubts”. Make that your personal motto and repeat it everytime you want to make an “smart” comment. How the hell did you jump from the world cup to Malvinas? Was your mother on dope when a donkey impregnated her with you? To make it short be sure to use protection when and if you have sex, the world is a terrible place as it is (with you) to stand your offsprings.
Returning to this thread subject. I propose the abolition of football, you have to put yourselves in my position. You can’t live near the brazilians. First of all they are always happy, dancing and singing. Imagine how they are everytime they win a world, in fact I can almost picture all those garotinhas dancing at the beach by a fire… It’s not a nice picture, and it isn’t because I’M FREEZING MY ASS DOWN HERE. Sorry for the outburst I am not having a nice day.
For all i mentioned above I say again: thank god the damm thing is over. I do hope that football is outlawed. If I am unhappy I don’t see why 187 million brazilians should be celebrating.
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### Author:  [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/19 "2002-07-01T04:05:10Z")
Estilicon
Can you think of a people who are better at celebrating a World Cup victory than Brazil? 😃 Sorry, I am still celebrating the victory.
Coldfire, I think the Dutch are going to win one of these days. They are definitely due.
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-the-damm-thing-is-over/116692/20 "2002-07-01T07:39:38Z")
Glad to see the Diego Maradona school of losing gracefully is alive and well. 😃
Hooray for Senegal, Japan, Turkey and South Korea!
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