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WE WON IVONA! WE WON! :D (there's a thread in the Memeber's Lounge already :sneaky: )

Yes, it's my country's first Gold Medal...... well we got two, in doubles and singles (smae people, playing 2 games daily)

yeah.... it's a personal thing... it's like I had to draw it and I couldn't and it would laugh at me, and everytime I saw it (the picture) I felt as it was laughing, more and more, and ....... I just hate it....... I find it sarcastic

Thanks! :D A smae you missed it though :P

I hate The Scream!!!! I had to draw it..... and it's REALLY hard... (besides of me havinf almost zero aptitute for that tipe of painting)

and I couldn-t find one of the medal they got in doubles :dozey:

Chile cheers Olympic first By Clinton Porteous BBC correspondent in Santiago, Chile Full Olympic tennis results Chile is celebrating its first ever Olympic gold after Nicolas Massu and Fernando Gonzalez won the final of the men's doubles competition in tennis. Olympic fever has gripped the nation after Gonzalez earlier won a bronze medal in the men's singles. And Massu will soon compete in the men's singles final against the unseeded American Mardy Fish. Moments after Chile won its first gold medal, people took the streets and drivers started honking their horns. Many households were watching their television all day as three local TV channels broadcast the Olympic tennis from Athens. Football is the dominant sport in Chile, and four years ago Chileans celebrated when their football team won a bronze medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. But their tennis players have now delivered the nation's first gold medal and there could be more to come. Massu seals golden double Nicolas Massu collected a second gold medal of the Games when he followed up Saturday's men's doubles victory by beating Mardy Fish in the singles. After joining Fernando Gonzalez to earn Chile's first Olympic title in the early hours of Sunday morning, he dug deep to hand his country another. Tired Massu, seeded 10th, took the first set 6-3, as unseeded American Fish made a string of unforced errors. Fish took the next two sets 3-6, 2-6 but Massu hit back 6-3, 6-4 to win. Bleary-eyed Massu was clearly fatigued after his fifth-set marathon doubles success against Germany's Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler. That three-and-a-half-hour epic had only ended at 2.40am on Sunday morning and after the medal ceremony and doping controls, the clay-court specialist had not had much sleep before he was back in action. But he took his time between points and had a massage on his left leg at end of the fourth set and managed to see his way through another five-set thriller which lasted four hours. Fish's faltering start allowed Massu to break in the second and fourth games and race to a 5-0 lead. Fish held his serve in the sixth and eighth games and in between broke Massu in the seventh to reduce the Chilean's advantage to 5-3. But Massu finally served out for the first set in the ninth game with two set points to spare. The second set was a tight affair, with both players holding serve until the eighth game when Fish broke. That gave the American the impetus he needed to go on and take that set and the next. But just when Massu looked down and out he fought back to take the fourth set on the stroke of three hours. The fifth set was a nail-biter with both players losing their two opening service games. But as the pressure mounted the mistakes crept back into Fish's game and Massu quickly took advantage and went on to seal the match. More than 20 games in one week....... 6 hours playing on Saturday-Sunday and today 4 more........ and gold yesterday :smug: :smug:

I bet Eric's talking about Carly Patterson & Company (it sounds like a law firm)

the calculus are a sort of 'balls'........ :dozey:

My doctor told me that when that happens it means you probably have an infection of your kidney or calculus (whatever they are called in english) which are like "balls" of ..... residuous and it's very painful and you start to bleed because they are big and 'strong'... and that's all I can think of! (they mnake you a test to know that, because my doctor thought I had it, but mine was a very plae and unperceptible bliding, but according to what you say, I can't thnik of anything else.... neither I kbnow of anything else!)

yes and no........ the Copper mines, most of them, are in Calama which is a bit further up Atacama (well, like at the same level). There is Chuquicamata, the biggest mine "outside" the earth is the world, and (II Region) and El Teniente is the biggest down earth (VI Region). It's true that those territories belonged to Bolivia, but when we went to war (because that wa it, in 1878 If I'm not mistaken) it was because of the "Salitre", the "White Gold" as it was called. The "Salitreras" (the places where salitre is taken from... and they are like small, independent towns) where under British administration and the Chileans had the second most important places (after the Brits) and they just pay taxes to Bolivia. Bolivia raised the taxes (the amount you had to pay), so we went to war. The Bolivian's got toget5her with the Peruans ( from Perú) and their intention was to defeat us, but it didn't worked and we "won" through a legitime war (whatever that means) Atacama, Arica, Iquique....... what's called the I & II Región now.... and ge got to Lima, but we didn't stayed there. During that time, Argentina took advantage and told our goverment that they either gave them the Patagonia or they would go to war, and we were on war already in the north (you must now that Chile is VERY large and from the North to the Patagonia, you have at least 2 weeks, now, on that timw...... uh months!) so we lost it (what you know as Patagonia Argetina, was ours..... like Bariloche and Usuahia) and that was it mainly. We didn't took it from them, we won it in an act of war, which they declared and later abandoned.

I took the Maths GCSE test today..... it was from last year though .... and well, my teacher wanted to see how we were doing :dozey:

uh! That's a lot! Congrats, and I'll remember that cause It'll be the same day that we've got to two finals in the Olympics! :smug: :D

Goethe is one of the writers we read is phylosophy :idea2: and Thanks! Thought I knew that already me thinks (our PIB was based on the exportations of Cu, which was at a time about 70% of the money that got in, so I know about that and how they extract it and what they dw ith it, and staff like that (and you end up knowing about most metals after all) but! (there's always a but) I can never find the meanings in english (or sometimes, it's the other way around) Thanks anyway! :D

I used to do that when I was little..... I mean, much younger than now (that sounds like If I was old!), but now, I've discovered the virtues of the grass, trees, leaves, earth, water, pillows....... anything! I read everywhere :lol: I remember once there was a protest and this "Green group" went to protest to the house the Manager of a bg, filthy, company in the town...... and they suddenly started to march outside his house with panflets and things like that, and the manager comes out and tells why didn't they ask permission (because they were on his garden now, and here If you are outside and you think or feel you're being threatened, you can shoot people and that kind of that) and they sudeenly tell him like, you wanted us to ask you If we could hang a thing saying MURDER on your roof? Of course, he says! I swear you I haven't heard a funnier thing....... it was so like..... funny! (well, I don't know about you, but our sense of humour -general- it's very like...... big!

:lol: I was almost sure it wasn't Bronze, that Cu meant copper, but I thought people would not pay attention and well, they would understand anyway (and they did!) and yes, you have like 1000 medals.......... but we are a small country that does nationalise every good athlete that can be and wants to be nationalise and...... well, I'm just happy with it! :D

YES! Bronze! and well, it's not as better as silver, but anyway, we'll get 3 medals, which is....... faboulous! :D

how do you get stout from boar? my brain does the connection, and that's a very complicated thing to explain...... so, I don't know! :idea2:

I don't know If it's well spelled, but nevermind...... I'LL OBLY YOU ALL TO WATCH THE OLYMPIC TENNIS TOMORROW AND PAST TOMORROW!!! WE ARE IN THE FINALS, BOTH, DOBLES AND SINGLES (WE NEARLY GOT A CHILEAN FINAL IN SINGLES, IF GONZALEZ HADNO'T GOT INJURED) SO......... YOU MUST WATCH IT, BECAUSE I SAY SO! :D TOMORROW WE GO FOR THE Cu MEDAL...... I DON'T KNOW THE NAME EXACTLY, BUT IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, IT'S ABREVIATED Cu, AND FOR THE GODL MEDAL IN DOUBLES AND PAST TOMORROW, WE GO FOR THE GOLD IN SINGLES :D

what an smartass you are!

Thanks, boar was what I meant when I said it sounded like "stout" :)

You must be at least 40 to be president :dozey:

and what's the name for a male pig? like big, hairy male pigs? and for a male cow?

are big pigs called different to small pigs? Like big cows are called cows and small cows should be called different......... that wasn't a good example, but in spanish you call the small cows terneros and big cows vacas (small means younger and big older)..... like chickens, hens and ..... the husband of the hens........ I don't remember the name........ well the thing is, isn't like stout or spore (I know stout is a rather fat person, but I think it sounds or looks similar) or me is just like........ wrong?

no, you weren't alone there! :P