France/Portugal plus scenes from a marriage

Breakfast
T'h (unprompted): Lobelia, if you could choose to go on a hot date with one of these two, which one would you choose? Zidane or Ronaldo?
Me: What do you mean, hot date?
T'h: Go to a restaurant, and afterwards...
Me: (*interrupts*) Which restaurant?
T'h: (*exasperated*) A really nice kind! You could choose!
Me: I'm not sure I want to go to a restaurant. These are footballers!! I would be worried about the standard of conversation.
T'h: Okay, okay, not a restaurant! Just straight to bed. Zidane or Ronaldo?
Me: Which Ronaldo? *is pedant*
T'h: (*shouts*) Cristiano Ronaldo! The wonderful old French guy or the beautiful young Ronaldo?
Me: I'll have Ronaldo, please. Yup.
T'h: You can, too. There is a new initiative: Footballers share their sex with middle-aged women in England.
Me: *cackles but is instantly convinced that such an initiative must surely, indeed, exist, and pulse quickens absurdly*
T'8-yr old: (*indignant*) Mama's not middle-aged!

(Are we corrupting the youth of tomorrow?)

T'h: I am looking forward to when the World Cup is over. And I can have my wife back.
Me: Yeah. And I can have my life back!
T'h: To me a wife, to you a life.

Dr Rodney McKay/Cristiano Ronaldo
Yes. This is what I am writing now. (Taking a break from angsty Roonaldo anger!fic.) This fic also features Viggo Mortensen, Dominic Monaghan, Miss Moneypenny and Colin Creevey. Geek meets ephebe. What's not to love? I may possibly also insert an incisively penned critique of globalised marketing and sponsoring corruption and the exploitation of the third world.

Possibly.

Pictures of the pack
And in keeping with my patriarchy analogy:
( Pretty pics of wolves and cubs )

collina at italy/germany

Wow! Look at ( this )

!

Collina was at the Germany/Italy game!

Pic found by megedeborch. :-)

SGA QUESTION

I know: this is unexpected! But it all hangs together...

Which is the episode where Rodney McKay and John Sheppard both sit in front of a TV or somesuch with their arms folded??

Can someone remind me?

:-)

Roodney?!

Reading, for fic research purposes, the wikipedia article on Wayne Rooney, I came across this little snippet:

When he moved to Manchester United and was told to find a home in the posh area of Cheshire, Rooney passed a pub which he thought was named "Admiral Rooney" and saw it as a good omen for his future home. It actually was "Admiral Rodney", but Rooney chose the place, Prestbury anyway.

I am already slashing Rooney/Ronaldo (Roonaldo) and Rodney McKay/Cristiano Ronaldo (Rodnaldo? *stabs self*). Do I need to write Rodney/Rooney now??

And 'Admiral'! That smacks of PotC crossover potential.

"Hello, I am Admiral Norrington. Surrender your arms!"

"Ooh, an admiral. What a good omen. Er, what exactly's an admiral, then?"

"What you mean, 'arms'? This is my legs I have got around my friend When."