true Melburnian

[deird1]

This is the one time of... well, ever... when I get passionate about the footy.

The Grand Final is tomorrow! Carn the Pies!


Tensions are running high in the office: loud jokes are being made about the parade today (with "It's Collingwood marching, so keep an eye out for pickpockets" being a running theme), and lots of Collingwood fans are stubbornly wearing black and white.


For those ignorant foreigners in our audience, the footy is played here:


And tends to involve a lot of this:


Also, Collingwood (my team) are the most depised one of the lot...



CARN THE PIES!!!

Comments

[slaymesoftly]

I take it "footie" in this case is Australian Rules Football? (or, as we refer to it here anytime we see it on TV "Australian no-rules football" *g* I thought "footie" was non-American shorthand for soccer.

[deird1]

True Blue Aussie Rules, that's right. :)

We'd just call soccer "soccer".


(And it's always footy with a Y, for us...)

[slaymesoftly]

You learn something new every day. *g*

[nimthiriel]

WOO! I'm right there with you! CARN THE PIES!!!! XD