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From: Jesus Petry on 22 Sep 2009 10:12 On Sep 22, 9:36 am, milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Sid: > > > * milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> [2009-09-22 02:51] [rec.sport.soccer]: > > > > Meant to update > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.soccer/browse_thread/thread/.... > > > > Well, Fantasy Scout is not played in RSS, but there is a strong link > > > anyway, so I think that the article about Fantasy Scout in today's La > > > Gazzetta dello Sport qualifies as "RSS in the media" (page 25, if you > > > have a copy). > > > > Here is the article: > > >http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5738/fantasyscout.jpg > > > Congratulations. > > I thank you and Abubakr for you kind words, but FS is a collective > effort, so all the 15 scout deserve these congratulations! > > > Can you give us a quick translation, please? > > Of course. But it's quick *and dirty* (and I'm adding a couple of > notes): > > Fantasy Deliria [1] > > by Luca Bianchin > > A research between Averroes and Higuain > > Averroes is not Albacete's left-back, but a medieval thinker, and this > is the first information. The second is an address: > fantasyscout.altervista.org. More than a website, it's a tribute to > minimalism: on every page there are no colors. Despite this, it might > be the most interesting variation on the theme in the history of > fantasy football. [2] > > The rules are spartan. Who registers must buy every year from 2 to 16 > players who have not yet played their third game in the A national > team. From then on, the player will bring 1 point for every cap and 1 > for every goal scored, considering only international matches. The > nice thing is that a player belongs to one team only: who sees him > first, keeps him forever. > > On fantasyscout Indians and Australians, Scots and Germans play, but > the inventor of the infernal machine lives in Catania. Andrea Vella is > 31 year old, every morning goes to college and studies medieval > philosophers. He has a research grant, as his wife Chiara Militello. > The game has been invented in a break between an essay on St. > Augustine and a research on Latin Averroists, who in the ranking of > Andrea's passions even beat football. He is now third in the general > ranking, because he has alternated strokes of genius (Walcott and > Higuain) and resounding failures (Polanski, not even if he was the > director, and Vermeer, less talented than the painter). [3] The funny > thing is that the ranking is constantly changing. As the first line of > the rules says: "The game has started 2007 January 1. It will never > end." > > [1] This is the name of the column. > > [2] This is an overstatement, of course! But it makes me happy. > > [3] This third paragraph is the one that I like less. I told the > interviewer that the game is a collective effort, but I guess that, > for narration's sake, he wanted to put a personal history behind the > game. Congrats! Or as we say down here: Mazzáááááááááááááá!!! Tchau! Jesus Petry
From: Sven Mischkies on 22 Sep 2009 10:19 On Sep 22, 1:36 pm, milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Cheers > milivella Congrats, but... You married a research grant? :-O ;) Ciao, S "Yes, I saw the comma..." M
From: Duwop on 22 Sep 2009 10:56 On Sep 22, 5:36 am, milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > [1] This is the name of the column. > > [2] This is an overstatement, of course! But it makes me happy. > > [3] This third paragraph is the one that I like less. I told the > interviewer that the game is a collective effort, but I guess that, > for narration's sake, he wanted to put a personal history behind the > game. > > -- > Cheers > milivella Wonderful stuff. Thank you for sharing.
From: Chagney Hunt on 22 Sep 2009 11:11 On Sep 22, 8:36 am, milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Sid: > > > * milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> [2009-09-22 02:51] [rec.sport.soccer]: > > > > Meant to update > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.soccer/browse_thread/thread/.... > > > > Well, Fantasy Scout is not played in RSS, but there is a strong link > > > anyway, so I think that the article about Fantasy Scout in today's La > > > Gazzetta dello Sport qualifies as "RSS in the media" (page 25, if you > > > have a copy). > > > > Here is the article: > > >http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5738/fantasyscout.jpg > > > Congratulations. > > I thank you and Abubakr for you kind words, but FS is a collective > effort, so all the 15 scout deserve these congratulations! > > > Can you give us a quick translation, please? > > Of course. But it's quick *and dirty* (and I'm adding a couple of > notes): > > Fantasy Deliria [1] Bravo, Andrea! > Andrea Vella is > 31 year old, every morning goes to college and studies medieval > philosophers. He has a research grant, as his wife Chiara Militello. But first you have some explaining to do, young man.
From: Chagney Hunt on 22 Sep 2009 13:16
On Sep 22, 10:19 am, Sven Mischkies <hs...(a)der-ball-ist-rund.net> wrote: > On Sep 22, 1:36 pm, milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Cheers > > milivella > > Congrats, but... > > You married a research grant? :-O No, his research grant is his wife, if I parsed that right :-) |