From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Mon Jun 28 22:27:00 1999 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA16722 for britdisc-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 22:26:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA16717 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 22:26:08 +0100 (BST) Received: from hil-img-6.compuserve.com (hil-img-6.compuserve.com [149.174.177.136]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA27293 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 22:26:01 +0100 (BST) Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by hil-img-6.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.19) id RAA07410 for britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:25:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:24:58 -0400 From: Stuart Clark <Frisbee@compuserve.com> Subject: Ultimate publicity..... To: Britdisc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Message-ID: <199906281725_MC2-7B1C-EAFD@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk id WAA16718 Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk More fuel to add to the fire about perceptions of Ultimate in the wider community. A small article of about two column inches appeared in the Daily Express' Saturday magazine over a week ago. It was dubiously a tongue in cheek article about park sports and certified the Daily Express as a less-than-quality paper. Anyway, the article read like this, and I quote (word for word).... "The great sport of Nineties Californian hippydom, beloved for its non-competitive, freewheeling nature and surf-bum, VW camper image. Frisbee is apt to go astray a lot - particularly if players, as is often the case, are stoned - and though it never quite seems to fulfill the threat that it will decapitate a toddler, it does have an extremely irritating way of disturbing the peace for picnickers. One is always glad to see a dog run away with the vile plastic disc." Yeah, maybe it's mildly amusing and maybe it was never meant to cause offence but where did this journalist (Oliver Bennett) do his research? Should we be offended or would a response be seen as knee-jerk reactionary - another minority group kicking up a fuss about something that the public at large generally don't give two hoots about. Maybe we should throw down the gauntlet and invite Oliver Bennett to Exeter - then maybe we could turn the negative into some positive publicity? For those of you who are incensed at the above, you can write to the Express editor on: express.letters@express.co.uk For reference again, the journalist was Oliver Bennett, the article was entitled "Oliver Bennett's taste test - Park Sports" and it appeared in the Saturday supplement (19th June). Where did Oliver Bennett "taste test" Frisbee? Anybody see him? Anybody heard of him? Maybe we should just deluge the Express' e-mail in-tray. Cheers Stu BAF #77 PS. If you do e-mail I'll keep an eye on the letters page and let you know if you strike it famous because I am, I hate to admit, a reader of a less-than-quality paper.