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Mark Taylor

@emarktaylor.bsky.social

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Retired ex-pat Brit living in NZ for over 20 years. Post jokes, cartoons & anything else amusing. Interests include American Football ( #NFL & #CollegeFootball / #CFB ), #Tennis, #Rugby & The #Beatles. Have watched every episode of #Moonlighting.

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · Nov 12

I post a lot of #NFL and #CFB at this time of year - and I always use hashtags.

If that's not your thing you can add them to the muted words / tags option in Settings and you won't see any of them.

Cheers!

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry about that. She was OK, she wasn't great.

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 11h

#Tennis

Apart from a couple of minor hiccoughs, Elena Rybakina's serve ticked over nicely, providing the foundation for her straight sets defeat of Leylah Fernandez in Tokyo.

Elena will play Victoria Mboko in the Quarter Finals.

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 12h

🏀 #NBA Clever stuff! 👀

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 12h

I sync'd up last night's NBA on NBC intro with the NBA on NBC intro from the last time it had aired: June 12, 2002.

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 12h

#Tennis

Elena Rybakina takes the 1st Set from Leylah Fernandez.

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 12h

It's 61F 16C - no wonder Rybakina and Gracheva are wearing long sleeved tops.

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 12h

It certainly helped that Mirra couldn't get a Japanese Visa (so I heard anyway).

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 13h

Seeing Leylah wearing a #ThighBandageOfDoom would usually worry me but she was wearing one when she won at the weekend (and I vaguely remember Madison Keys had one when she won the Aussie Open).

This is the first time I've seen Rybakina without tape on one of her calves in months.

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 13h

Rybakina's a heavy favourite - only paying 25 cents on the dollar versus a 300% return on Leylah.

That feels about right.

But this is Women's Tennis so who knows!

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 13h

#Tennis

And now it's Elena Rybakina, of Kazakhstan via Russia, versus Canada's Leylah Fernandez.

Leylah won the title in Osaka last weekend.

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 13h

#Tennis

There was a bit of back and forth in the way the games ran in the 2nd Set but Bencic ended both Sets in control.

Gracheva 1
Bencic 2
Gracheva 2
Bencic 4

Belinda plays Karolina Muchova in the Quarter Finals.

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 14h

#Beatles #TheBeatles 👀 😆

Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 14h

There's something that needs to be addressed, and it's long overdue, and you all know what I'm talking about.

The rhyme scheme of "Lovely Rita" is *psycho.*

A
B
C/c (internal; dark/heart)
D

E
E
F
G
G
H

A
some crazy b/a slant thing (internal, Rita/discreetly)
a/a/a (free/tea/me)

I mean wtf?

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 14h

#Tennis

Well that 1st Set ebbed and flowed.

Bencic won the 1st 2 Games, Gracheva the next 4 and Belinda the last 4.

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 14h

I'm pretty sure I heard this morning that Utah has the lowest season win total at around 20.

So this is a bit of a surprise start.

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Luvtennis @luvtennis.bsky.social · 14h

#EpsteinBallroom

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 17h

The Epstein Ballroom it is

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 18h

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 14h

Because you're doing this? ...

Mark Taylor @emarktaylor.bsky.social · 15h

#Tennis

@auntietennis.bsky.social 's favourite player 😜, Belinda Bencic, is about to face Varvara Gracheva of France via Russia.

Last time I saw Belinda play she was complaining about Coco's team cheering for Coco.

I wonder what's on her mind today ...