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Having a ball?

People in Jane Austen’s novels, by the way, seem to be going to the ball all the time, don’t you remember?

Anyways, the long and short of it is, gradually people began to say they “had a ball” whenever they meant to say they had a good, exciting time.

Now, foreign investors having a ball in Libya suggests that the country is stable politically once more and foreigners are beginning to make money on their investment again. Libya is rich in, among other things, oil and it’s not too hard to imagine foreign investors want to be there.

Still, they have to make hefty returns to allow them to say they’re having a ball – because investment in a country just emerging from battles and war is risky business. Besides, investment and money making in the whole is a head aching business, if you ask me.

The point is, if investors can have a ball, everyone else in Libya should all be having a good time.

Hopefully.

Alright, no more ado, let’s have a few recent media examples of people who have a ball:

1. In the fall of 1979, Bill Walton's basketball dream was turning into a titanic nightmare.

Fresh off leading the Portland Trail Blazers to a National Basketball Association title two seasons earlier — and having signed a free-agent contract with his hometown San Diego Clippers just months before — Walton was supposed to be having a ball.