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Comments for Online Sportsbook - MyFavoriteSportsbook.com http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com Just another WordPress site Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:35:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Cool Sports Book images by raineys http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-443 raineys Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:35:13 +0000 http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-443 Oh your photo is sooooo much better!!! Your shots are fantastic...the sports shots really super! Oh your photo is sooooo much better!!! Your shots are fantastic…the sports shots really super!

]]> Comment on Cool Sports Book images by Steve_C http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-442 Steve_C Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:50:49 +0000 http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-442 I've always struggled to get decent photographs of my celebrity book signings but I was quite pleased with this one. It's certainly better than the picture that appeared in the local newspaper. They've managed to give him a face that's more orange than our famous shirts... <a href="http://www.whtimes.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=WHTOnline&category=News&itemid=WEED17" rel="nofollow">www.whtimes.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=WHTOnline&c...</a> Oct 2007 10:27:59:497&tBrand=WHTOnline&tCategory=search I’ve always struggled to get decent photographs of my celebrity book signings but I was quite pleased with this one. It’s certainly better than the picture that appeared in the local newspaper. They’ve managed to give him a face that’s more orange than our famous shirts…

http://www.whtimes.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=WHTOnline&c... Oct 2007 10:27:59:497&tBrand=WHTOnline&tCategory=search

]]> Comment on Cool Sports Book images by Baubo Bittern http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-441 Baubo Bittern Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:46:03 +0000 http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-441 See, there is the Difference. You say Mister So-and-so if you know the lastname. Mister developed from the same root as Master and our our Meister. To Germans it is awfully oldfashoned to address a tradesman "Meister Lastname", and Herr in conjunction with the lastname is even used for people that in old times nobody would have called anything but "Hey, you!" , for example unwashed malcontent whose personals are inquired by a police officer for sitting in front of the supermarket boozing is treated by "Herr Lastname" usually. So "Herr" really had some inflation to mean as good as nothing but a genderspecific prefix. Herr may also be used along with a title when the Gender is right. Schroeder was correctly addressed "Herr Bundeskanzler", Merkel is rather not for the obvious reason. :) See, there is the Difference. You say Mister So-and-so if you know the lastname. Mister developed from the same root as Master and our our Meister. To Germans it is awfully oldfashoned to address a tradesman "Meister Lastname", and Herr in conjunction with the lastname is even used for people that in old times nobody would have called anything but "Hey, you!" , for example unwashed malcontent whose personals are inquired by a police officer for sitting in front of the supermarket boozing is treated by "Herr Lastname" usually. So "Herr" really had some inflation to mean as good as nothing but a genderspecific prefix. Herr may also be used along with a title when the Gender is right. Schroeder was correctly addressed "Herr Bundeskanzler", Merkel is rather not for the obvious reason. :)

]]> Comment on Cool Sports Book images by Steve_C http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-440 Steve_C Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:21:04 +0000 http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-440 Sonja - Much of what you say about titles & honours in Germany is also true here. We use the term 'Sir' to address men in a formal way too. Usually when you do not know any other name for them. You wouldn't use 'Sir' AND their own name though. Cricket is very much a sport adopted by the countries of the former British colonies. India, Pakistan, Australia, The West Indies etc. I have never followed the sport and only have a basic understanding of it. Sonja – Much of what you say about titles & honours in Germany is also true here. We use the term ‘Sir’ to address men in a formal way too. Usually when you do not know any other name for them. You wouldn’t use ‘Sir’ AND their own name though.

Cricket is very much a sport adopted by the countries of the former British colonies. India, Pakistan, Australia, The West Indies etc. I have never followed the sport and only have a basic understanding of it.

]]> Comment on Cool Sports Book images by Baubo Bittern http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-439 Baubo Bittern Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:30:32 +0000 http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-439 Congrats to your Knight then.... :) Here if people are rich and famous for own achivements and do substancial good works then, chances are they become a honourable doctor of the nearest university and a citizen of honour of the town and collect all kinds of awards and medalls. There are actually some awards by the state that have something like a knighthood in the name as the "Ritter vom Hosenbandorden". But they do not get an other title in front of the name anyone calls them by now like the nobles that derive titles from their houses and families and have therfore a "von" between firstname and lastname. And by a modern "Ritter" we usually envision some interpreter on a castle or greeter in a medival themed event restaurant or someone wearing the costume just for carneval - anyway a canned human of folkloristic merrits rattling with a sword. The Ritter, which is the dictionary 1:1 translation of knight, in old poetry still known was addressed "Her" ,"Heire", "Herre", finally "Herr". But "Herr" is how you today address every male adult in a polite formal way. "Herren" is in fact what is written on the mens privy or the guys racks in the socks department. So in a way, we do address every male as a "Sir" already if we are not on informal terms. But cricket we do associate with only noble upper class brits for some jokingly simplifying cause. In movies and sketches playing in England sometimes is a opening scene of a lord on a lawn clad in white and trying to hit a ball with a flat laddle when a stiff buttler shows up with a urgent message and then the real content starts. It is sort of a clue for the viewer about the brittish nobility setting.... Virtually nobody plays this here at all. You can buy the sets in every big toystore, but they usually end up with the kids creating a dinosour sculpture or hunting vampires with the pointy sticks, as this is not a sport on TV and nobody cares what exactly to do with all the weird parts. Congrats to your Knight then…. :)

Here if people are rich and famous for own achivements and do substancial good works then, chances are they become a honourable doctor of the nearest university and a citizen of honour of the town and collect all kinds of awards and medalls. There are actually some awards by the state that have something like a knighthood in the name as the "Ritter vom Hosenbandorden". But they do not get an other title in front of the name anyone calls them by now like the nobles that derive titles from their houses and families and have therfore a "von" between firstname and lastname. And by a modern "Ritter" we usually envision some interpreter on a castle or greeter in a medival themed event restaurant or someone wearing the costume just for carneval – anyway a canned human of folkloristic merrits rattling with a sword.
The Ritter, which is the dictionary 1:1 translation of knight, in old poetry still known was addressed "Her" ,"Heire", "Herre", finally "Herr". But "Herr" is how you today address every male adult in a polite formal way. "Herren" is in fact what is written on the mens privy or the guys racks in the socks department. So in a way, we do address every male as a "Sir" already if we are not on informal terms.

But cricket we do associate with only noble upper class brits for some jokingly simplifying cause. In movies and sketches playing in England sometimes is a opening scene of a lord on a lawn clad in white and trying to hit a ball with a flat laddle when a stiff buttler shows up with a urgent message and then the real content starts. It is sort of a clue for the viewer about the brittish nobility setting….

Virtually nobody plays this here at all. You can buy the sets in every big toystore, but they usually end up with the kids creating a dinosour sculpture or hunting vampires with the pointy sticks, as this is not a sport on TV and nobody cares what exactly to do with all the weird parts.

]]> Comment on Cool Sports Book images by silviaON http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-438 silviaON Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:16:41 +0000 http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-438 wonderful portrait ! -- <i>Seen in my contacts' photos.</i> <em>(<a href="http://6v8.gamboni.org/Flickr-Add-referer-into-comments.html">?</a>)</em> wonderful portrait !

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]]> Comment on Cool Sports Book images by Steve_C http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-437 Steve_C Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:54:25 +0000 http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-437 Thanks, Mike. It was semi-candid. The Welwyn Times photographer, reporter and editor had just arrived and he had a short rest from signing to talk to them and pose for photographs. I told him that I was going to take advantage of the break to get a few pics myself. I only had about about 2 minutes before I had to get back to work feeding books to him. I think the lighting was much better from the angle I had than the angle the press photographer had. It will be interesting to see what she got when the paper comes out. Thanks, Mike. It was semi-candid. The Welwyn Times photographer, reporter and editor had just arrived and he had a short rest from signing to talk to them and pose for photographs. I told him that I was going to take advantage of the break to get a few pics myself.

I only had about about 2 minutes before I had to get back to work feeding books to him. I think the lighting was much better from the angle I had than the angle the press photographer had. It will be interesting to see what she got when the paper comes out.

]]> Comment on Cool Sports Book images by woodmanlroc http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-436 woodmanlroc Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:07:34 +0000 http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-436 And well deserved too ... oh nice candid photo too Steve Mike And well deserved too … oh nice candid photo too Steve

Mike

]]> Comment on Cool Sports Book images by Steve_C http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-435 Steve_C Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:21:48 +0000 http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-435 Sonja - He was one of the greatest cricketers of all time and an interesting and controversial character too. He was knighted just last week, mainly for his charity work. Knighthood is not an inherited title. It isn't something that belongs to the nobility. It is awarded to individuals who have appropriate achievements. Sonja – He was one of the greatest cricketers of all time and an interesting and controversial character too. He was knighted just last week, mainly for his charity work. Knighthood is not an inherited title. It isn’t something that belongs to the nobility. It is awarded to individuals who have appropriate achievements.

]]> Comment on Cool Sports Book images by Steve_C http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-434 Steve_C Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:52:59 +0000 http://www.myfavoritesportsbook.com/?p=148#comment-434 Sally - The photo in the background is a calendar. He signed that for me too. Terry - Cheers. I spent an hour and half chatting to him today. I can't tell you what a nice bloke he is. We talked about wine, sport, people, kids, books, visits to the Queen, Roger Daltry, fishing..... Checkout the Welwyn Times this week (or maybe next week). Michael - Don't hold your breath waiting for McGreggor & Boorman but you can have a signed copy of Botham's book if you want one. This wasn't a public signing, by the way. It was a private and (supposedly) secret visit to sign books for us and for his publisher. I did discretely leak the visit to the editor of the Welwyn Times though ;-) Sally – The photo in the background is a calendar. He signed that for me too.

Terry – Cheers. I spent an hour and half chatting to him today. I can’t tell you what a nice bloke he is. We talked about wine, sport, people, kids, books, visits to the Queen, Roger Daltry, fishing….. Checkout the Welwyn Times this week (or maybe next week).

Michael – Don’t hold your breath waiting for McGreggor & Boorman but you can have a signed copy of Botham’s book if you want one. This wasn’t a public signing, by the way. It was a private and (supposedly) secret visit to sign books for us and for his publisher. I did discretely leak the visit to the editor of the Welwyn Times though ;-)

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