Let's play a game called "Libyan or lesbian" in which I name someone and you have to guess if they are Libyan or a lesbian. Here is the first puzzle: Muammar Gaddafi.
The following is a list of World Cups with undeserving champions followed by who the rightful champion should have been. 1950 Brazil 1954 Hungary 1966 West Germany 1974 Holland 1982 Brazil 2010 Holland
In Iran I had these exact 2 books. I never understood why Tom was spelled Toom and why Huck who was a homeless street boy looked so polished and innocent. I was given the Huckleberry Finn book first and later the Tom Sawyer one. Just prior to the school year I received a book in Persian, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. On the cover, it pictured him sitting on a river bank with light wavy hair and a straw hat on. He looked much different than I had pictured him. He seemed too feminine as opposed to the street thug that I had envisioned him as. I tried reading the book a few times and while each time that I started from scratch I made progress, going beyond my last quitting point, it would be a few years before I managed to finish it beginning to end, all 403 pages. One thing I noticed during my many attempts at reading it was that as I flipped through the pages while the odd pages were on the left and the even ones on the right, however, they would gradually switch...
I think I'm going to use the year I was admitted to Sharif (1989) as a start date for a new calendar. According to this calendar my birthday took place in 18BSU. So happy 33 ASU to all.
When I was 6 I had this lunch box. I used to place it on my room floor and pretend the middle part was doors to an elevator that brought my figurines to the top of the lunch box.
I came across another person from my past that I randomly decided to google only to realize they had died at a young age. The first was a college classmate (at age 25), the second a coaching certification classmate (at age 45) and now a former coworker (at age 36).
Twenty five years ago I took a course in Oklahoma for my "C" coaching license. Fifteen years ago I found out that one of my classmates in that course had resigned from her position as college coach due to hazing of new players. Ten years ago I found out that she had married one of her players. Five years ago I found out she had died.
During the 2002 World Cup someone opened a thread about Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, posting a picture of him with a thread title "I didn't know Zorro played for Japan." Someone responded to that thread and said "I didn't know you were so loos." That someone was me.
A few years ago I had to go to a college campus. It was my first time in about 18+ years going to one in the US. Once there I asked a student where one of the buildings was. Afterwards it occurred to me that they probably saw me as an old man who shouldn't have been there the same way I viewed old people on campus as such when I was in college.
Kim Joo Sung was an incredible South Korean soccer player in the 80s and 90s. He won three Asian footballer of the year awards. During his farewell match the entire stadium in Korea proceeded to sing this song for him throughout the match: Like A Comet Blazing 'Cross The Evening Sky Kim Joo Sung Like A Rainbow Fading In The Twinkling Of An Eye Kim Joo Sung Shiny And Sparkly And Splendidly Bright Here One Day Gone One Night Like The Loss Of Sunlight On A Cloudy Afternoon Kim Joo Sung Like A Castle Built Upon A Sandy Beach Kim Joo Sung Like A Perfect Flower That Is Just Beyond Your Reach Kim Joo Sung Born To Amuse, To Inspire, To Delight Here One Day Gone One Night Like A Sunset Dying With The Rising Of The Moon Kim Joo Sung Kim Joo Sung
In Iran there was a cartoon called Professor Balthazar whose theme song was like this: Bal, Balthazar, Bal, Balthazar, Bal, Balthazar, Balthazar. To gross out my family I used to walk around the house and sing it like this: Bowel, Bowel movement, Bowel, Bowel movement, Bowel, Bowel movement, Bowel movement.
I have a souvenir from a member of North Korean's soccer federation from 1999. I was a driver during the 1999 Women's World Cup and I was taking this guy from one of the headquarters to his hotel when North Korea was in Boston. It's his business card and a case for a watch that was for the 2002 World Cup. I used to have the watch too but I think I tossed it after it stopped working. This was right before North Korea played the US so I assume he was there as part of their delegation for that game. I found it odd too that he was telling me about the 2002 World Cup in South Korea even though he represented North Korea. Not that I minded getting a watch from him with the 2002 World Cup logo, but other than the logo it just seemed like a regular watch to me.
Back in the late 90s someone on Irankicks made a thread claiming that CNN was reporting that Daei was sexually attracted to Michael Preetz. I responded and pretty much word for word my response was "I cheched CNN's website but did not see anything about this. What is your source for this news? Is your source reliable?" Someone responded to the original poster and called him an idiot. I guess then he saw my response and called us both an idiot.