Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Can get some sleep again now Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:29:42 +0900 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <40DBC656.8040104@hotmail.com> References: <2k1n9kF16sfclU1@uni-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de GvKry47nRYVZPsPT2350oA1HpidZVgfQ12YXxUBBhNBZ6mAs8b User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <2k1n9kF16sfclU1@uni-berlin.de> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:14839 mr.sumo.snr wrote: > Since coming to Japan alone I've endured England penalty-kick shootout > losses on three separate occasions: Germany in 1996, Argentina in 1998 and > Portugal this morning. Add in the worst ever loss - to West Germany in 1990 > during the World Cup in Italy and what was poor fortune becomes a legitimate > sporting jinx. I thought you were Welsh? What exactly is there to endure watching England repeatedly choke? > AFA Sepponian sports are concerned I only know about the Curse of the > Bambino. Though I guess the Buffalo Bills losing 4 straight Superbowls must > also be a curse - does it actually have a name? > > Are there any other popular sports jinxes? When Australia tour England next summer there will be a lot of guff in the pom papers about how the team will finally end the run of eight consecutive series defeats in the cricket over the past 16 years. And about 8 weeks later lament another loss. Is that a jinx? -- "Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit"