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You seriously underestimate me Op.

I've never tried to estimate you at all, Tim.

Trust me on one thing, I use my
terms carefully.

"wet golfing"? Um...thats' when someone golfs during a rainstorm, IMMHO.

That I fully understand the difference between a sport
and a pastime should be clear. As Thomas McIntyre suggests, a pastime
is playing frisbee on the beach or 3 putting the 9th, while true sport
as Ortega y Gasset, the Spanish philospher says, involves homage,
dedication and the death of a wild animal. That it is serious business,
and I quote:

So, a "sport" is only when something has to die? Funny, they call football,
baseball, basketball....sports. Of course, there are no wild animals
involved in those sports. 'coon hunters don't always kill their prey nor do
bear hunters, yet they are still hunters, I think. It's pretty common,
around these parts, for bear and 'coon hunters to tree their prey and not
kill them. Sometimes it's for training, sometimes it's because the bear or
'coon is a female with cubs and whatever 'coon babies are called, sometimes
it's just for that sport of it! They just love to hear their dogs baying.


"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in
order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the
death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is
having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and
skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in
the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction
from his job.
Jose Ortega y Gasset, Meditations on Hunting.

That this fella believes the way that he does/did, doesn't make it gospel!
You can quote others until the cows come home, but it don't make it a fact!

Your pal,

TBone
Guilt repolaced the creel