Monday, April 30, 2012

Keep your eye on the ball!

It's Now or Never
Someone on ST's sports desk must be an Elvis Presley fan. This headline today (30 April, page B8) is for the Manchester United-Manchester City "derby of derbies" Premier League football match (kickoff at 3am, Tuesday 1 May, Singapore time. UPDATE: City won 1-0.):


And here's the YouTube clip of the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkMVscR5YOo

Did you wonder what is a "derby" (pronounced "darby"), as used in soccer parlance? Here's one explanation:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/235375.html

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Keepy-Uppy


Over at TODAY, one of its sports pages (page 30) had this headline, above. So what is "keepy-uppy"? It is "the skill of ball-juggling -- to keep a ball in the air for as long as possible". Here's the fuller explanation:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/keepy-uppy.html

The website above also says there are keepy-uppy contests and the record "at the time of writing... stands at 19 hours 30 minutes"!

The Children's BBC (CBBC) even has a game of Keepy Uppy, played using a computer mouse or a webcam ("bounce the ball with your body", it says):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/games/keepy-uppy-game

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A hairy ball with missing hairs?
Last item. I found this poster in an optometrist's shop both puzzling and intriguing...

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