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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined:
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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: |
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: Member Rating: 5.3 |
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: Member Rating: 5.3 |
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 2981 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: |
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 2981 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined: |
Guess which one is Straggler. - Oni
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hooah212002 Member (Idle past 831 days) Posts: 3193 Joined:
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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 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Nope. To the initiated that all made perfect sense.
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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
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 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Dick Van Dyke is in da house.....
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vimesey Member (Idle past 103 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined: |
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 103 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined:
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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: |
Straggler writes:
What's a Pimm? And how many can you get in a jug?
In cricket a "pitcher" is a big jug full of Pimms.
Cricket bat? Is that anything like a crocoduck?
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ringo Member (Idle past 442 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
nwr writes:
I knew it. The whole "game" is just a Monty Python sketch.
You didn't even get to the bit about silly mid on... ... 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: Member Rating: 5.3 |
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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