"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
> altheim wrote:
>
>> As you are sure to know, if you are reading this in the UK,
>> we are nearing the end of Wimbledon fortnight (that is tennis
>> to US ignoramusses) and today (Tuesday) was the Ladies
>> quarter finals. Among the qualifiers was Venus Williams
>> (Serena was knocked out earlier in the tournament). During
>> a break, one of the BBC presenters interviewed Richard
>> Williams, Venus's father. He remarked that tennis was not
>> the most important thing in the Williams household (yeah right).
>> "What is the most important thing then"?, the interviewer asked.
>>
>> "God, Jehova is No. 1"
>>
>> If an English person said that s/he'd get funny looks.
>
> I am not entirely sure that's true. If someone said that to me, I would
> definitely not mind. So why would a more observant person respond with a
> funny look?
It's not the kind of thing you hear often, outside of church or
religious observance programs on TV, so to hear it in that
setting sounded really strange.
> In this particular case I might say "whatever rocks your boat". The
> response
> is different, however, depending on the context. God as a tennis supporter
> is not a God for guidance in a warzone.
>
> Roy
I can't help but wonder if Williams snr was just making
soundbites to woo his daughter's public except, it might
work just fine in the US but not here.
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altheim
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