Why not horns?

Of course you don't like vuvuzelas - they're horns, after all!

I'd be worried about Uruguay if I were you. They've won two more World Cups than the Dutch. They even won one in Brazil. Plus everything is upside down. Both Germany and Spain were upstaged in the Group stage and Spain was eliminated in one of the biggest upsets in history. Seems plain enough that the tables can turn at any moment.

Admittedly there is no excuse for Ghana losing to Uruguay but it would be unseemly now for the Apartheid people to walk away with a trophy in South Africa. Uruguay is down two starters as well, including their best scorer, Mr. Handball.

If Germany is as strong as they look, I'm betting that they will take the trophy home in a rain of vuvuzela cacaphonic orgasm.

Spain will prevail, if they play how they are capable, as I think they will.

The Dutch should have to much in their arsenal for Uruguay, although the Dutch have always been a bit suspect in the knock out stages of the World Cup, they need another Cruyff!
Spain can and do play beautiful football (if they show up that is) with their marvelous array of talent, but have been under performing, especially Torres who has been truly woeful. The Germans are playing like a team on a mission with verve and passion, I mean how many teams could stop Argentina from having a sniff of the ball, never mind score a goal?. So, its Germany for me to beat Holland in final.
I hope FIFA pick Mr Howard Webb as the referee, a no nonsence kind of chap who is a top notch referee for the final.

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Here's a brief history lesson provided by your Audiogon hosts:

http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?blog&1277867348

Notice that Jonathan Weiss and Oswald's Mill are mentioned.

No comments? No notice?
Jonathan Weiss or Weisselk, as he's known on Audiogon is sort of like the Anthony Bourdain of audio. He has similar gourmet leanings but that is not why I make the reference. Jonathan, like Tony, has an obsession that he travels to feed. Or he used to. Before Oswald's Mill. Once he started that up, the audio world, or it's most retro cutting edge facets, started beating a path to his door. If you visit the Oswald's Mill website you can see a chronicling of The Tastings. Those are a series of get togethers Jonathan hosted at his Mill in north central Pennsylvania annually. The most hard core hobbyist DIY people converge from near and far with their latest projects and strangest innovations. Read about them on the site.

You can also check out the OMA forum which I know DanEd reads. The horn world is a bit lonely. Few get involved and many mistakenly believe they've seen and rejected it. Fact is there are few experts and, unlike conventional box type speakers, horns require a tremendous depth of knowledge and experience that hardly anyone explores. The cookbooks that exist for box speakers haven't been provided for horns.

I've come to believe that horns are a relatively untapped (insider joke) resource that hold a potential well beyond anything that can still be extracted from box or planar designs.