From: Alan.Wallis@btinternet.com (Alan Wallis) Date: 21 Aug 1999 22:49:00 GMT Subject: Re: Media coverage and WC99 Message-Id: <7pnacs$cbc$1@plutonium.btinternet.com>
> >>Most people don't give a stuff about some backwoods sport taking place >>in inverness, the papers' ignoral of us only reflects reality. > >Most papers serve these people, they have red tops and naked ladies in >them. > There WAS an article in the news section of the largest circulation UK newspaper (The Sun) on the day after the Classic final. If I recall correctly, it was along the following lines: "Swiss runner Alain Berger missed out on a medal at the world orienteering championships in Scotland yesterday when he stopped 20 yards SHORT of the line. The organiser said 'It was a tragic mistake'" There are at least 3 mistakes and/or half-truths in that paragraph, but it will have put mention of the sport in front of perhaps 4 million readers who might not have heard of it! Alan Wallis
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From: "Scottish O Tours" <info@scottishotours.sol.co.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:34:18 +0100 Subject: Re: Re WOC 99 and media interest within the UK Message-ID: <002d01beebc9$46c93d60$37e9b094@orienteering>
Politics, jiggery pokery & orienteering mixed together..........unbelievable, never heard so much nonsense in my life! I have been involved with orienteering for more years than I care to remember and not once has even the tiniest bit of political shenanigans come to my attention......................and if you believe that you'll believe those that say WOC 99 was a glowing success and that the opening ceremony went of without a hitch!! Gross ----- Original Message ----- From: Dicky <corbettr@dircon.co.uk> To: Mail <info@scottishotours.sol.co.uk>; <orienteering@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Sent: 21 August 1999 12:30 Subject: Re: Re WOC 99 and media interest within the UK > I can think of only one Scotsman capable of mustering that kind of reply, > but as I know that he is no longer young and indeed may, even as I speak, be > heading towards a certain softness in the head brought about, I am sure, by > repetitive claymore stress syndrome or RCSS if you will, then I shall > refrain from indulging in my more naturally aggressive style and instead > wish him a Merry Xmas and a happy new millennium. > > The great man may be unaware that I was "up his way" last May attempting to > prove that age does not necessarily wither one's infinite physical > loveliness, by "doing" the TGO Challenge. > > I shall be "at it again" in May 2000, always providing that Roger Smith can > be persuaded to allow the transcontinental transaction. > > Richard McCorbett = a man known to dislike haggis. > > By the way, you wouldn't be trying to tell me that there is no political > jiggery pokery going on in Orienteering would you? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mail <wildcat@scottishotours.sol.co.uk> > To: Dicky <corbettr@dircon.co.uk>; <orienteering@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> > Sent: 21 August 1999 08:37 > Subject: Re: Re WOC 99 and media interest within the UK > > > > Now now.........lets not get into political opinion on the grand scale on > > the O Net..........particularly not slagging off one of the great > > governments of our country! > > > > If only Maggie were still in place instead of Mr Slimeball & his puppets > in > > Westminster & Edinburgh....... > > > > Gross > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Dicky <corbettr@dircon.co.uk> > > To: <orienteering@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> > > Sent: 20 August 1999 18:12 > > Subject: Re: Re WOC 99 and media interest within the UK > > > > > > > In truth, and since about 1979 untill 1996, we had an excessivly > socially > > > astrigent government controlling the purse strings in this country. > Among > > > their many acomplishments was a strange reluctance to do anything with > > > taxpayers money except give it back to them in a rather discriminitory > > > manner. In addition they created a climate of social tension such as to > > > suggest to most parents that little Johhny or Joan had better get their > > head > > > down on the academic front or run the risk of failing to secure a > > reasonable > > > lifestyle in the new great society. > > > > > > > > > > > > >
From: "Dicky" <corbettr@dircon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:30:25 +0100 Subject: Re: Re WOC 99 and media interest within the UK Message-ID: <000701beebc8$912721c0$b53d70c2@corbettr>
I can think of only one Scotsman capable of mustering that kind of reply, but as I know that he is no longer young and indeed may, even as I speak, be heading towards a certain softness in the head brought about, I am sure, by repetitive claymore stress syndrome or RCSS if you will, then I shall refrain from indulging in my more naturally aggressive style and instead wish him a Merry Xmas and a happy new millennium. The great man may be unaware that I was "up his way" last May attempting to prove that age does not necessarily wither one's infinite physical loveliness, by "doing" the TGO Challenge. I shall be "at it again" in May 2000, always providing that Roger Smith can be persuaded to allow the transcontinental transaction. Richard McCorbett = a man known to dislike haggis. By the way, you wouldn't be trying to tell me that there is no political jiggery pokery going on in Orienteering would you? ----- Original Message ----- From: Mail <wildcat@scottishotours.sol.co.uk> To: Dicky <corbettr@dircon.co.uk>; <orienteering@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Sent: 21 August 1999 08:37 Subject: Re: Re WOC 99 and media interest within the UK > Now now.........lets not get into political opinion on the grand scale on > the O Net..........particularly not slagging off one of the great > governments of our country! > > If only Maggie were still in place instead of Mr Slimeball & his puppets in > Westminster & Edinburgh....... > > Gross > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dicky <corbettr@dircon.co.uk> > To: <orienteering@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> > Sent: 20 August 1999 18:12 > Subject: Re: Re WOC 99 and media interest within the UK > > > > In truth, and since about 1979 untill 1996, we had an excessivly socially > > astrigent government controlling the purse strings in this country. Among > > their many acomplishments was a strange reluctance to do anything with > > taxpayers money except give it back to them in a rather discriminitory > > manner. In addition they created a climate of social tension such as to > > suggest to most parents that little Johhny or Joan had better get their > head > > down on the academic front or run the risk of failing to secure a > reasonable > > lifestyle in the new great society. > > > > > > >
From: "Mail" <wildcat@scottishotours.sol.co.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 08:37:16 +0100 Subject: Re: Re WOC 99 and media interest within the UK Message-ID: <000e01beeba8$254710c0$37e9b094@orienteering>
Now now.........lets not get into political opinion on the grand scale on the O Net..........particularly not slagging off one of the great governments of our country! If only Maggie were still in place instead of Mr Slimeball & his puppets in Westminster & Edinburgh....... Gross ----- Original Message ----- From: Dicky <corbettr@dircon.co.uk> To: <orienteering@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Sent: 20 August 1999 18:12 Subject: Re: Re WOC 99 and media interest within the UK > In truth, and since about 1979 untill 1996, we had an excessivly socially > astrigent government controlling the purse strings in this country. Among > their many acomplishments was a strange reluctance to do anything with > taxpayers money except give it back to them in a rather discriminitory > manner. In addition they created a climate of social tension such as to > suggest to most parents that little Johhny or Joan had better get their head > down on the academic front or run the risk of failing to secure a reasonable > lifestyle in the new great society. > > >
From: Mikell Platt <mikell@sprynet.com> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:09:39 -0600 Subject: Rocky Mountain 1000 Day... Message-ID: <39A0AB83.B730B410@sprynet.com>
...just keeps rolling along. For Day 4 results and the Day 5 Chase Start List, see the 1000 Day web site: www.geocities.com/colosseum/stadium/7418