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The Shell Caribbean Cup 1994 was the fifth edition of the Caribbean Cup, the football championship of the Caribbean, one of the CONCACAF zones. The final stage was hosted by Trinidad and Tobago.

There was an unusual match between Barbados and Grenada.

Grenada went into the match with a superior goal difference, meaning that Barbados needed to win by two goals to progress to the finals. The trouble was caused by two things. First, unlike most group stages in football competitions, the organizers had deemed that all games must have a winner. All games drawn over 90 minutes would go to sudden death extra time. Secondly and most importantly, there was an unusual rule which stated that in the event of a game going to sudden death extra time the goal would count double, meaning that the winner would be awarded a two goal victory.

Barbados was leading 2-0 until the 83rd minute, when Grenada scored, making it 2-1. Approaching the dying moments, the Barbadians realized they had no chance of scoring past Grenada’s mass defense, so they deliberately scored an own goal to tie the game at 2-2. This would send the game into extra time and give them another half hour to break down the defense. The Grenadians realized what was happening and attempted to score an own goal as well, which would put Barbados back in front by one goal and would eliminate Barbados from the competition.

However, the Barbados players started defending their opposition’s goal to prevent them from doing this, and during the game’s last five minutes, the fans were treated to the incredible sight of Grenada trying to score in either goal. Barbados also defended both ends of the pitch, and held off Grenada for the final five minutes, sending the game into extra time. In extra time, Barbados notched the game-winner, and, according to the rules, was awarded a 4-2 victory, which put them through to the next round.

how fraking crazy is that?!?! all you people bitching and moaning about the footballing rules of today, be glad you did not watch football back then otherwise who knows what you people would do!

it’s that time again! the Emmy Awards will be with us on the 29th of August (30th for us South Africans)
here is a list of the nominations…
for a full list, check here FULL LIST (PDF)

DRAMA

OUTSTANDING DRAMA

• Lost
• Breaking Bad
• Dexter
• Mad Men
• True Blood
• The Good Wife

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA

• Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife)
• Mariska Hargitay (Special Victims Unit)
• Glenn Close (Damages)
• Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
• January Jones (Mad Men)
• Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA

• Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
• Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)
• Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
• Hugh Laurie (House M.D.)
• Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
• Matthew Fox (Lost)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA

• John Slattery (Mad Men)
• Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
• Martin Short (Damages)
• Terry O? Quinn (Lost)
• Michael Emerson (Lost)
• Andre Braugher (Men of a Certain Age)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA

• Sharon Gless (Burn Notice)
• Christine Baranski (The Good Wife)
• Christina Hendricks (Mad Men)
• Rose Byrne (Damages)
• Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)
• Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)

COMEDY

OUTSTANDING COMEDY

• Glee
• Modern Family
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Nurse Jackie
• 30 Rock
• The Office
• Curb Your Enthusiasm

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

• Lea Michele (Glee)
• Tina Fey (30 Rock)
• Toni Collette (The United States of Tara)
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine)
• Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie)
• Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A COMEDY

• Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
• Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
• Matthew Morrison (Glee)
• Steve Carell (The Office)
• Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
• Tony Shalhoub (Monk)

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY

• Chris Colfer (Glee)
• Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
• Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family)
• Jon Cryer (Two and A Half Men)
• Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)
• Ty Burrell (Modern Family)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

• Jane Lynch (Glee)
• Kristen Wiig (Saturday Night Live)
• Jane Krakowski (30 Rock)
• Julie Bowen (Modern Family)
• Sofia Vergara (Modern Family)
• Holland Taylor (Two and A Half Men)

OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES

• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
• Real Time With Bill Maher
• Saturday Night Live
• The Tonight Show With Conan O?Brien

REALITY

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM

• Antiques Roadshow
• Dirty Jobs
• Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
• Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List
• MythBusters
• Undercover Boss

OUTSTANDING REALITY – COMPETITION PROGRAM

• The Amazing Race
• American Idol
• Dancing With The Stars
• Project Runway
• Top Chef

OUTSTANDING HOST FOR A REALITY OR REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM

• Phil Keoghan (The Amazing Race)
• Ryan Seacrest (American Idol
• Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars)
• Heidi Klum (Project Runway)
• Jeff Probst (Survivor)

If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it?s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation?s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won?t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It?s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

(Apparently excerpted from The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité.)