I read that initially as soccer = numb. Still works, though.

Spirit? v ….?

Fair enough. At least they’re getting games against an international opponent 👍

I DID NOT but now I DO 🙏. The first time I ever heard of Spokane was when my childhood friend’s mum mispronounced it. (The mum was the mistress of a wealthy ocularist - or maker of glass eyes - and they were going there for some reason. I thought it was to race a Lotus, but maybe it was not that.)

Really? All I know about Spokane is that it rhymes with cocaine (or maybe it doesn’t) and that people sometimes go there to race fast cars (or do they?).

A moose at your apartment complex?!?

You love to see it! (Except we couldn’t see it 😭)

The 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup in Iran overthrew an elected government that planned to nationalise its oil industry, threatening UK oil interests there. It was a blueprint for similar, later acts by the US. Tim Weiner’s ‘Legacy of Ashes: A history of the CIA‘ is a good read - jaw-dropping stuff.

Indeed.

NSW well-represented in today’s starting XI 💪

(7 x WSW academy, 1 x Spirit, 1 x Manly, 1 x Bulls)

I hadn’t heard of Brassic but it’s on my list now - always looking for good stuff to watch!

Good call - the tension in some episodes becomes almost unbearable (ha!) so it’s best watched in company! Series one is brilliant.

Or dead. A sneaky AI in my photo app identified a funnel web spider in my backyard this morning as a house spider (a North American variety, giving a bit of insight into its bias).

Ant breakfast

I reckon Pauline’s legs are as evil as the rest of her

It’s as fascinating as its national baseball comp being called the ‘World Series’. So parochial and so weird!!