http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aFootball+tag%3aRugbySearch results for 'tag:Football tag:Rugby' matching tags 'Football' and 'Rugby'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuikestOnOnesFeet/gqrqk/post.htm#580016Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:05:44 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:580016yizhivikaYes I think it s primarily a sporting term although the reference here is specifically to rugby rather than soccer a prop is a positional term used in rugby but not in football soccer I think too it is sometimes used metaphorically for mental agility quick thinking http://www.englishforums.com/English/ExactlyMeansRugby/gnqvq/post.htm#569703Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:00:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:569703cliveHi Hut two three four are words used for counting in certain situations In such a context hut seems to mean one I don t know why It may be a corrupted form of up as in everybody get up on your toes and ready Soldiers march to such a count as chanted by their sergeant and rugby and American football players start some special moves when they hear the command hut Best wishes Clivehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ApologizeOrApologise/3/gkmlv/Post.htm#553915Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:36:17 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:553915anonymousActually football and yes it s spelt spelled that way refers to more than one sportWhat it means depends on where you re from In the US the name refers to a game in which the players are packed in body armour and have little contact between the ball and their feet during the game This game is known to non americans as American football I the rest of the world more or less football refers to a game which is actually played with the feet Then I haven t even started about Australian football Gaelic football rugby etc which are altogether different games though sharing some familiarities with the aforementioned games However the term football seems most appropriate for the world s most popular sport known to Americans as soccer due to the fact that it is the only one of the many varieties actually played almost exclusively with the feet PS Since football is an English invention no relation to a German word is relevant Fussball is just the German translation http://www.englishforums.com/English/MessageFromJohnCleese/gjzgp/post.htm#546905Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:57:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:546905anonymousThe response from the United States of America to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIMessage from Her Majesty the Queen Let us start with your header the use of Majesty Here is how it is derived After the fall of Rome Majesty was used to describe a Monarch of the very highest rank indeed it was generally applied to God The title was then also assumed by Monarchs of great powers as an attempt at self praise and despite a supposed lower royal style as a King or Queen who would thus often be called His or Her Royal Majesty The first English king to be styled Majesty was Henry VIII We can t stand people that think of themselves as Gods And technically it would be Goddess in this case Goddess have you even seen a picture of your queen To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign MajestyQueen Elizabeth IIIn light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidatesfor President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves we hereby givenotice of the revocation of your independence effective immediately Yes we sure do elect some bad presidents but that is what you get when you stop inbreeding the Royal blood line and end up with nit wits like your son We like to see change occur every once in awhile It is expected that we will elect a bad one every now and again but we will just elect another president You on the other hand are stuck with your nit wits Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical dutiesover all states commonwealths and territories except Kansas which shedoes not fancy Monarchial duties What is that What does she do exactly Oh I forgot Nothing So we will gladly let her do her duties We just won t pay her unless she does something useful And it figures that she would not want Kansas that is where a lot of strong pioneering women come from in our history Pioneering implies that she must do something Your new Prime Minister Gordon Brown will appoint a Governor for Americawithout the need for further elections Congress and the Senate will be disbanded A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of younoticed Wow you are a deluded country If you have not noticed The People rule here Congress and the Senate just try to keep us happy so they can keep their jobs And as for the questionnaire if we are happy we will not notice If we are not happy and we do not have the congress or senate to blame You Will Notice To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency the following rulesare introduced with immediate effect You should look up revocation in the Oxford English Dictionary So you think that our authority was conferred to us by you You gave us the rite to be the United States of America You should pick up a history book WE TOOK IT We will let you know when we want to GIVE it back Unless you think you can take it back LOL Like that would be possible You can t defend yourselves let alone attack anybody It might behoove you to remember The only freedoms you have are the freedoms you can defend We re Good How about you 1 Then look up aluminium and check the pronunciation guide You will beamazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it noun adjective Chiefly British We are Not British 2 The letter U will be reinstated in words such as colour favour labour and neighbour Likewise you will learn to spell doughnut without skipping half the letters and the suffix ize will be replacedby the suffix ise Generally you will be expected to raise yourvocabulary to acceptable levels look up vocabulary OK You are starting to sound like the French Do you really want to be associated with the French 3 Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises suchas like and you know is an unacceptable and inefficient form ofcommunication There is no such thing as US English We will let know on your behalf The spell checker will be adjusted to takeinto account the reinstated letter u and the elimination of ize You still using Microsoft we moved on to Apple Linux etc And using like and you know is extremely efficient to educated people For example The British are becoming like the French And that implies You know See rather than write paragraphs the thought was expressed in a simple statement 4 July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday What is it to embarrassing for you I think we will keep it unless you can take it LOL5 You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns lawyers ortherapists The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists showsthat you re not quite ready to be independent Guns should only be usedforshooting grouse If you can t sort things out without suing someone orspeaking to a therapist then you re not ready to shoot grouse Nice try but we can still kick your butts without the guns They call our lawyers sharks for a reason They eat their prey go ahead take them on Our therapists make them feel better after kicking your butts And as far as only shooting grouse If you didn t already kill every other animal in the forests that you no longer have you might actually be able to go hunting When is the last time you saw a deer in the woods in your country 6 Therefore you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything moredangerous than a vegetable peeler Although a permit will be required if youwish to carry a vegetable peeler in public A vegetable peeler will be just fine By the way do you grow potatoes carrots or anything that requires a vegetable peeler Didn t think so you have to farm for that And that is just so beneath you Just keep buying our food 7 All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts and you will startdriving on the left side with immediate effect At the same time you willgo metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversiontables Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British senseof humour Oh my God Majesty you are using that to better us No wonder you lost your kingdom Oh we have a horse if you want to sell your kingdom We might even give you two horses And we understand the British sense of humor To laugh you must smile to smile you must have nice Teeth You Know 8 The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol which you have beencalling gasoline of roughly 10 US gallon Get used to it Jealous Remember that whole No taxation without representation thing You should look into it 9 You will learn to make real chips Those things you call French friesare not real chips and those things you insist on calling potato chipsareproperly called crisps Real chips are thick cut fried in animal fat anddressed not with catsup but with vinegar For someone who used to have India you think that you might have learned something about spices All you got out of that era was vinegar Come on go through the Chunnel to France and start learning how to cook If we take any criticism about our food it will have to come from France 10 The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actuallybeer at all Henceforth only proper British Bitter will be referred to asbeer and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referredto as Lager South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound forpound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to thebeer They are also part of the British Commonwealth see what it did forthem American brands will be referred to as Near Frozen Gnat s Urine so thatall can be sold without risk of further confusion Ok Our beer sucks but if we are going to take criticism about it Germany will have to do it 11 Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as goodguys Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play Englishcharacters Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in FourWeddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one s ears removedwith a cheese grater Stick to Documentaries your country is incapable of producing entertainment movies You don t laugh you don t cry you don t feel and you think that you can entertain a populace It would be akin to watching black and white silent movies Again go to France India Germany even Japan But in the end I think it would be best if you just make Documentaries 12 You will cease playing American football There is only one kind ofproper football you call it soccer Those of you brave enough will intime be allowed to play rugby which has some similarities to Americanfootball but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds orwearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies Don t try rugby the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you like they regularly thrash us You just don t get entertainment Yep we Americans are going to go nuts over watching guys in shorts run around the field for 3 hours and maybe make a score There might even be an upset match of 2 1 The excitement of it all has me watering at the mouth And when we are done being thrilled by the game we can switch the channel to watch a bunch of guys piled on top of each other move around on the ground for another three hours Look up sarcasm in the Oxford English dictionary Don t worry though an american can fix it In soccer you need to have more excitement Switch the goalie to a girl and after each successful goal that goalie must remove an article of clothing No more of those 1 0 matches from my figuring almost all matches will be 10 9 or 10 8 Rugby is easy just switch to girls we will never turn the channel 13 Further you will stop playing baseball It is not reasonable to hostan event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside ofAmerica Since only 2 1 of you are aware there is a world beyond yourborders your error is under standable You will learn cricket and we willlet you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of theirdeliveries First get your facts straight if you learned to do proper research you would know that Toronto as in the Toronto Blue Jays is not with in our countries borders Second of course we know their is a world outside of our borders we supply it with food we keep it employed by buying its products and we get a laugh at them when they try and criticize us 14 You must tell us who killed JFK It s been driving us mad Hell we thought you did it Come on you can tell us 15 An internal revenue agent i e tax collector from Her Majesty sGovernment will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all moniesdue backdated to 1776 Ok but you must pay all our Social Security benefits Welfare Benefits Wic Benefits and government subsidies back dated to 1776 Want to call that one even Else you might owe us some money We will send the lawyers over 16 Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups with saucers and never mugs with high quality biscuits cookies and cakes plusstrawberries with cream when in season Ok that confirms it You are pansies God Save the Queen If you weren t paying attention according to you God is the Queen Let her save herself But if she did that you would have to call her an American PS Go ahead and share this with your friends in the USA those with a goodsense of humour and NOT humor PS Go ahead and share this with your friends in the UK those with a good sense of humor oops my mistake there are none I would go on but You Know http://www.englishforums.com/English/MessageFromJohnCleese/zmlgz/post.htmThu, 21 Feb 2008 15:25:54 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:479847anonymous gt Britain is Repossessing the U S A gt gt A Message from John Cleese British comedian gt gt gt To The citizens of the United States of America gt gt gt In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President gt of the USA and thus to govern yourselves we hereby give notice of the gt revocation of your independence effective immediately gt gt Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties gt over all states commonwealths and territories except Kansas which gt she does not fancy gt gt Your new prime minister Gordon Brown will appoint a governor for gt America without the need for further elections gt gt Congress and the Senate will be disbanded gt gt A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of gt you noticed gt gt To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency the following gt rules are introduced with immediate effect gt gt You should look up revocation in the Oxford English Dictionary gt gt 1 Then look up aluminium and check the pronunciation guide You will gt be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it gt gt 2 The letter U will be reinstated in words such as favour and gt neighbour Likewise you will learn to spell doughnut without gt skipping half the letters and the suffix ize will be replaced by the gt suffix ise gt gt Generally you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable gt levels look up vocabulary gt gt 3 Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises gt such as like and you know is an unacceptable and inefficient form gt of gt communication gt gt There is no such thing as US English We will let Microsoft know on gt your gt behalf The Microsoft spell checker will be adjusted to take account gt of gt the reinstated letter u and the elimination of ize You will relearn gt your original national anthem God Save The Queen gt gt 4 July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday gt gt 5 You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns gt lawyers or therapists The fact that you need so many lawyers and gt therapists shows that you re not adult enough to be independent gt gt Guns should only be handled by adults If you re not adult enough to gt sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then gt you re not grown up enough to handle a gun gt gt 6 Therefore you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything gt more dangerous than a vegetable peeler A permit will be required if gt you gt wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public gt gt 7 All American cars are hereby banned They are crap and this is for gt your own good When we show you German cars you will understand what gt we gt mean gt gt 8 All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts and you will gt start driving on the left with immediate effect At the same time you gt will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of gt conversion tables gt gt Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British gt sense of humour gt gt 9 The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol which you have been gt calling gasoline 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Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to gt play English characters gt gt 13 You will cease playing American football There is only one kind of gt proper football you call it soccer Those of you brave enough will in gt time be allowed to play rugby which has some similarities to American gt football but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds gt or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies Don t try gt Rugby the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you like they gt regularly thrash us gt gt 14 Further you will stop playing baseball It is not reasonable to gt host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played gt outside of America or Japan Since only 2 1 of you are aware that gt there gt is a world beyond your borders your error is understandable You will gt learn cricket and we will let you face the South Africans first to gt take gt the sting out of their deliveries gt gt 15 You must tell us who killed JFK It s been driving us mad gt gt 16 An internal revenue agent i e tax collector from Her Majesty s gt Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all gt monies due backdated to 1776 gt gt 17 Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups never gt mugs gt with high quality biscuits cookies and cakes strawberries in season gt gt gt God save the Queen gt gt gt Only He can gt gt gt John Cleese If at first you don t succeed skydiving is not for you T T http://www.englishforums.com/English/SuperBowlXlii/2/zlwrh/Post.htm#473967Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:35:51 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:473967bw2/3Here is website you might check out about american football http en wikipedia org wiki American_football_rules Here is the movie you might check out too http movies yahoo com movie 1809823663 info If I am not mistaken thought I know nothing about Rugby I think American football is evolved from it Then someone from Princton varsity made new rules about the new sport Later on the sport became very popular http://www.englishforums.com/English/SuperBowlXlii/2/zlwrd/Post.htm#473963Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:19:25 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:473963jcdentonHey GG and BW2 3 can you explain me shortly the difference between your American football and Rugby I always have been curious about that because except of that equipment like a big helm and big protectors I don t see any differences Thank you in advance for explanation regards http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestThrowingState/zgvrb/post.htm#448240Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:43:32 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:448240angliholic Philip wrote Angliholic wrote I had the best throwing arm in the state Does the above refer to I could pass the ball best in the state in a rugby American football game Thanks That s correct If it were baseball it might be a pitching arm Thanks Philip http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestThrowingState/zgdqm/post.htm#448234Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:37:06 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:448234philip Angliholic wrote I had the best throwing arm in the state Does the above refer to I could pass the ball best in the state in a rugby American football game Thanks That s correct If it were baseball it might be a pitching arm http://www.englishforums.com/English/BestThrowingState/zgdqd/post.htmFri, 30 Nov 2007 15:18:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:448225angliholicI had the best throwing arm in the state Does the above refer to I could pass the ball best in the state in a rugby American football game Thanks