Monday, June 22, 2009
Gooooaaaaaaaal!!
I was emailing back and forth with one of my Egyptian translators at work today, sending documents and POs and that sort of thing, and he adds at the end of one message "Congrats on the football game!"
Football game... fooootball game....
Luckily I have enough knowledge of sports and whatnot to know that the rest of the world calls "soccer" "football," which is obviously incorrect, but whatever. Silly rest of the world.
"Oh yeah!" I type, frantically Googling July 21st Soccer Match US. "Wasn't that game a shocker!? To be fair, both of Egypt’s best strikers were missing, so that probably helped us out...."
He writes back, super excited, "Really it was such a big shock! You analyzed the situation very well. Our coach was planning to win the match with his minimum team force to rest the better strikers... bad strategy."
I commiserate: "Well what can you do!? Plus, Egypt was out celebrating after the match with Italy, which I imagine also slowed the team down. ;)"
LB, looking across at my computer, cannot believe I am making up soccer knowledge.
Blahaha. Am so awesome.
Fear my powers of bluffing.
Comments:
Your strong knowledge of "football" will be helpful for you in Sweden next month, honey. I'm very proud of you.
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