Things heating up

Today I was wearing my "I love Slovenia nogometna"* T-shirt. Coming back from Harris Teeter with my lunch, I heard out of the corner of my ear:  "Slovenia's going down" (i.e. against the US later this week), and then "Lucky goal!", in reference to the Algerian keeper's fumble of the Slovenian captain's good but not great shot yesterday.



*The word for soccer in Slovene, as well as Croatian, is of course "nogomet," not "nogometna" (an adjectival derivative [nominative singular feminine]). Note also that this shirt from WorldSoccerShop.com was available for $6.99 a few months back, but has been marked up to $17.99 during the World Cup.  This argues more for inflation than deflation, or at least for cleverness.