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Subject: A sporting success for Scotland!?!?
Author: Paddy (Scotland)	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 17:50:53 12/08/04 Wed Wow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4073353.stm [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Joke
Author: Ben.M(UK) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:05:27 12/08/04 Wed I though this was a joke, then though it wasn't because of the BBC link. Then I actually read it and found it it is a joke! :) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Well...

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 20:51:45 12/08/04 Wed

I have a vague recollection of seeing a real elephant-based ballgame up that way once. It wasn't in Nepal, but some Himalayan part of India... Assam or Sikkim or one of these ghastly places. Might even have been Dharamsala, but frankly I don't think that the Tibetans would allow it in case they come back as elephants or, worse, mahouts (terrible snobs those Tibs).

Basically, a chap mounts an elephant, and directs the elephant to a large ball about the size of a beach-ball, which the elephant is encouraged to kick in this or that particular direction, depending on which team the elephant and rider are members of. Elephant football. Really.

Elephant polo, in my opinion, is not so bizarre when you think that elephant soccer is an established game. Perhaps Torquhil Argyll wouldn't be a bad choice for team captain either.

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[> Subject: At last, we have found our calling...
Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 21:07:25 12/08/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Which reminds me...
Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 21:10:52 12/08/04 Wed I was reading a book on the history of Glasgow the other day, and saw a photograph of an elephant parade. Apparently, this sort of thing was common in the early 20th century. You don't tend to see that sort of on Sauchiehall Street these days... [ Post a Reply to This Message ]