Hi,
With the world cup football underway (soccer to my friends in North America) I thought it would be a good opportunity for you to show what skills you have with a ball.
I thought we had better not use the official world cup ball (FIFA World Cup official match balls - Wikipedia ) as it is covered in sponsor logos. So I bring you our own SFTW "official" ball. What will you do with it?
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Dave
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I might add some shadows later if I have time. 
Football Crazy you say? 
I'm sure getting some mileage out of that head .
Blimey. Where has my day gone? 
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Here in the U S of A, this is football:
Semaphoric wrote
Here in the U S of A, this is football:
Can't be football - he has the ball in his hand 
Dave
jane-e wrote
Hahaha—next week maybe our picture should be a biscuit (American style)!
Oh no! That could get very confusing. Brits would be thinking Huntley & Palmer, and Americans would be thinking bread.
And woodworkers would be thinking of these jointing aids.
That entire UK/USA word thing is so confusing. Boot/trunk, hood/bonnet etc. etc.
One that caused amusement at my workplace was the ground floor/first floor. In the UK the first floor is the next one up after ground, whereas in America I believe that their first floor is the same as the UK ground floor. So on the day of an important meeting (this was Ford Research in Essex) my manager (Let's call him Brian — because that was his name) met two German engineers who had come over for the meeting, and entered the lift and pressed the button marked 1
...and nothing happened. So Brian pressed button one again, and the three of them stood there going nowhere.
At this point Brian apologised for the 'broken' lift, and suggested that they should try going to the 2nd floor and walk down, so he pressed button 2.
This time the lift worked, and up they went to floor #2, and walked to the stairs and proceeded down... back to where they started!
What made this story become priceless was that when Brian and his bemused German visitors arrived late to the meeting attended by Senior Executive Engineers and high echelon Ford Europe people, he proceeded to tell his story and reinforce their opinion that Brian was a bit of an idiot.
There after Brian always used the stairs, because he couldn't get into a lift without someone making fun of him.
jane-e wrote
Loved your “lift” story, although we call it an “elevator”. Did people stop making fun of him when he took the stairs? Because that would never stop the people I know!
Poor Brian had always taken the lion's share of banter in our department. He was an officer in the RAF before coming to Fords, and was a frightful snob, but he really did mean well. He just wasn't quite living on the same planet as the rest of us. He once had this 'marvelous'idea of installing a white board in the lab — the idea being that if any of us found ourselves with nothing to do, we'd put our name on the board, and if someone needed something doing, they'd pick a name from the board. Yeah, right!
The very first thing that went on the board was:
Q What's the difference between Brian #### and a bucket of poo? ...or words similar to that.
A The bucket.
It was character building working there, and it wouldn't happen nowadays I'm sure. Another trick (which I might have mentioned before) was to put something on the board partially in permanent marker. When the target scrubbed it out, it left something rather worse, but I'll leave the details to your imagination. MS Word Auto Correct presented a good opportunity to lab mayhem so when the person signed off with their name, AC changed it for something else.
Brian retired before I did, and volunteered as an administrator at a big country park. I actually quite liked him as he had a good heart. When one of our engineers drove his car off a cliff in Switzerland killing his girlfriend and leaving himself in an induced coma for nearly six months, Brian went above and beyond for him, so a bit of a drip, but definitely not one of those corporate sociopaths — and we had a few of those!
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