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Topic: The Ashes
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Straggler
Member (Idle past 95 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: 09-30-2006
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Message 256 of 356 (703365)
07-19-2013 6:52 PM
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Reply to: Message 249 by Tangle
07-19-2013 2:38 PM
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Tang writes: This is the 'let's fuck with Americans' thread isn't it? Yep.
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jar
Member (Idle past 424 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Re: Summer 2013 - Ashes to Ashes
Do they have make up tests? Are they graded on a curve?
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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nwr
Member Posts: 6412 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: 08-08-2005 Member Rating: 4.9
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Message 258 of 356 (703368)
07-19-2013 10:49 PM
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Reply to: Message 255 by Straggler
07-19-2013 6:47 PM
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Re: Chirp
According to the Guinnes book of records the fastest cricket delivery recorded was 100.23 MPH. Googling suggests the fastest baseball pitcher achieved 105 MPH.
That's pretty close. The bowler gets there partly because of a running delivery. The pitcher with the use of the elbow muscles.
Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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nwr
Member Posts: 6412 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: 08-08-2005 Member Rating: 4.9
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Re: Summer 2013 - Ashes to Ashes
Well thanks for leaving me in the dark.
There's no real value in knowing. "A duck" means a score of zero. "Stumps" is end of play for the day, when they pull up the stumps (those wooden posts). And "at tea" means there's a scheduled refreshment break.
Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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onifre
Member (Idle past 2980 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: 02-20-2008
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Re: Summer 2013 - Ashes to Ashes
No. Bowled Siddle. 31 for 3 at stumps. Root still in. Bresnan playing night watchman for Bell. You're just making all this shit up, right? - Oni
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onifre
Member (Idle past 2980 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: 02-20-2008
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Straggler explains cricket to Oni
Guess which one is Straggler. - Oni
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hooah212002
Member (Idle past 831 days) Posts: 3193 Joined: 08-12-2009
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Message 262 of 356 (703376)
07-20-2013 10:29 AM
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Reply to: Message 260 by onifre
07-20-2013 3:05 AM
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Re: Summer 2013 - Ashes to Ashes
You're just uncultured, uncouth, yankee swine. Pip pip, cheerio.
"Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off." -Dawkins
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Straggler
Member (Idle past 95 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: 09-30-2006
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Message 263 of 356 (703377)
07-20-2013 10:39 AM
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Reply to: Message 260 by onifre
07-20-2013 3:05 AM
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Re: Summer 2013 - Ashes to Ashes
Nope. To the initiated that all made perfect sense.
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Straggler
Member (Idle past 95 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: 09-30-2006
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Message 264 of 356 (703378)
07-20-2013 10:43 AM
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Reply to: Message 257 by jar
07-19-2013 6:59 PM
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Re: Summer 2013 - Ashes to Ashes
International cricketers don't wear makeup. Although coloured sunscreen in war paint style patterns was seen in the 90s. Grade cricket is Aussie domestic cricket. And swerve in cricket is called swing. Jimmy Anderson is England's best bowler and master of reverse swing. Glad you asked
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Straggler
Member (Idle past 95 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: 09-30-2006
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Re: Summer 2013 - Ashes to Ashes
Dick Van Dyke is in da house.....
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vimesey
Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined: 09-21-2011
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Message 266 of 356 (703380)
07-20-2013 11:31 AM
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Reply to: Message 265 by Straggler
07-20-2013 10:44 AM
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Re: Summer 2013 - Ashes to Ashes
Things have settled down thank goodness. Get to about 550 ahead then have a go at them ?
Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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vimesey
Member (Idle past 102 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined: 09-21-2011
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Message 267 of 356 (703381)
07-20-2013 11:35 AM
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It's quite simple really
Apologies if this has been posted before, but I haven't checked. Cricket is quite straightforward really. You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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ringo
Member (Idle past 442 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Message 268 of 356 (703382)
07-20-2013 11:47 AM
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Reply to: Message 246 by Straggler
07-19-2013 1:43 PM
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Re: Chirp
Straggler writes: In cricket a "pitcher" is a big jug full of Pimms.
What's a Pimm? And how many can you get in a jug?
Straggler writes: Tut tut tut. Link
Cricket bat? Is that anything like a crocoduck?
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ringo
Member (Idle past 442 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Message 269 of 356 (703383)
07-20-2013 11:50 AM
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Reply to: Message 250 by nwr
07-19-2013 2:42 PM
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Re: Chirp
nwr writes: You didn't even get to the bit about silly mid on...
I knew it. The whole "game" is just a Monty Python sketch.
... or the bit about bowling a maiden over.
Well, when I was younger....
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nwr
Member Posts: 6412 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: 08-08-2005 Member Rating: 4.9
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Message 270 of 356 (703384)
07-20-2013 12:03 PM
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Reply to: Message 269 by ringo
07-20-2013 11:50 AM
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Re: Chirp
I knew it. The whole "game" is just a Monty Python sketch.
You do have a point. But the same could be said of just about any sport.
Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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