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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
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Subject: Re: Re: It's over when...
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Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 12:33:49 EDT
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>>> ... the fat lady sings!  (just couldn't resist)
>>
>>I've always wondered about this: at all the sporting events I've attended
>>the singing comes first.  Have I missed something?
>
>The actual statement is ``It's not over 'til the fat lady sings.''  This
>is a reference not to sporting events, but to opera.  For some reason, it
>seems that most grand divas are quite corpulent.
>
>	You were perhaps thinking of Casey Stengel's immortal observation
>that in football and hockey and basketball, it's over when the clock says
>its over, but in baseball ``it ain't over until it's over''.

NO.  About 8 years ago, the Washington Bullets were a good basketball,
and they beat Seattle 4-3 in the Finals, after being down 3-1 (or 2-0?).
Their coach at the time said "It ain't over until the fat lady sings,"
from that, it became an expression in sports.

Why is this in net.singles?
-- 
James C Armstrong, Jnr.   ihnp4!abnji!nyssa

I have not come as your prisoner, Davros, but as your executioner.