Disporte

Friday, May 26, 2006

Etymology tells us "sport" is short for the old English word disporte, which came from Old French, desport, or pleasure, from desporte, to divert. In addition to being a pleasurable diversion, games governed by rules, it can describe a person; a good sport, poor sport, gambler, jester, spoil sport. Spoil Sport? Think that came from my mom, not sure. So, come on, be a jolly, good fella, extravagant benefactor, eh. If your Dad's sporting choices don't include fishing or baseball, um, there are a few basketball related items that will make swell gifts, located on other pages of this site. Perhaps, your Dad is simply not a sporting chap at all, well then, perhaps he's the intellectual type and would like a mug or t-shirt or card that reflects his love of:

If his favorite sport is bending the elbow, perhaps a nice beer stein will do?

You can customize most of the items available from My Zazzle,and you'll also be doing a good deed, lending a hand up, not a handout to a sweet old lady, in dire straits. Thank you so very much, for your time.

Postscript: This post was a cyberbegging effort to entice people to make purchases at My Zazzle. Am not uploading the beer stein and other images to this post. The purpose of this post is that word games. Although I guess everyone is aware that sports are games, I wanted to add non-sports stuff to mashoops; I mean is fishing or golf a sport? Backdating mashoops for this games blog, having no idea what I was gonna do with that dismantled blog.