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Mark Taylor

@emarktaylor.bsky.social

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Retired ex-pat Brit living in NZ for over 20 years. Post jokes, cartoons & anything else amusing. Interests include American Football ( #NFL & #CollegeFootball / #CFB ), #Tennis, #Rugby & The #Beatles. Have watched every episode of #Moonlighting.

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · Nov 12

I post a lot of #NFL and #CFB at this time of year - and I always use hashtags.

If that's not your thing you can add them to the muted words / tags option in Settings and you won't see any of them.

Cheers!

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 1h

I normally drift back to Tennis after Christmas but I had a couple of hours to kill this afternoon.

I am tempted by Frech to beat Siegemund - but the 37 y.o. German seems to be bulletproof at the moment (a bit like Kontaveit was for a 6 month period a couple of years back).

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 1h

Nobody seemed to have control.

Both players looked miserable.

It is over!!

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 1h

Nobody seems to be enjoying this match.

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 2h

Pegula can't stop hitting the ball into the net and Ekat has stopped hitting it over the opposite base line.

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 2h

And she has!

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 2h

#USPol #Trump 👀

David Stone @david-stone.bsky.social · 2h

PROMISING

Eric Swalwell sounds optimistic. I hope he's right. Perhaps MTG is just the first defector with more to come.

Hope

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 2h

Serving to level the match!

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 2h

⚾ #Baseball #MLB

Final: Dodgers 2 - 8 Phillies

Dodgers lead the best of 5 series 2 games to 1.

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 2h

I'm on Jess The Peg - I'd already booked it as a loss in my Excel spreadsheet when she was 3-0 down.

I'm a bit astonished she's back in it.

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 2h

Unlike a lot of them, she does seem to treat it like a job.

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 3h

⚾ #Baseball #MLB

Phillies 8-1

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 3h

⚾ #Baseball #MLB

Phillies 6-1

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 3h

⚾ #Baseball #MLB

Phillies 4-1

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 3h

Very fair.

About 6 months ago she was looking really out of shape (she seemed to be developing a gut) and the girlfriend of one of our BSky mates thought she might be pregnant. Not the case!!

Mind you, her outfit is not very flaterring today either. 😜