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To: Ish who wrote (13164)	10/4/1998 10:48:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Ish, One of my lasting memories of high-school soccer is fields chewed to slush by energetic play in November rain. Then one day it would freeze. I lost my share of flesh to those fields. Ice hockey was always a pleasure afterwards; at least you wore pads, and fell on something smooth. Another one is a ball soaking up its own weight in water, with its own weight in mud caked around it. Then some goalie would punt it way up in the air, and there'd be 3-4 kids on the ground fighting for the privilege of not heading it. It's fall again. Somewhere, at least. Steve

To: Ish who wrote (13164)	10/4/1998 11:25:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Overseas once, I heard an Aussie, after listening to how it rains here in the Cascade foothills, describing his local's reaction to rain. Terror. He said they'd call a "football" game or cricket match ".....if a cloud appeared on the horizon." He's holding his hat and pointing: "WHAT the F**K is THAT?" "RAIN!" And they'd all run for their lorries. It was pretty funny, in the Strahlyun accent. "Ey dun like tuh get wet, know?" (He really wasn't afraid of stereotype, himself, in kahki shorts and folded brim hat. At first I thought he was, like a shill, for the travel bureau. Poster perfect. But he was the real thing, and I think maybe the funniest person I've ever met.)