Ashes to Ashes

[Gill]

Oh dear - England's defence of the Ashes isn't going very well .

On the positive side, however, is the BBC radio commentary. The current 'hot' topic seems to be meat pies doused (inadvertantly) with Thai chilli sauce; there's also squeaky studio doors. It's worth staying up all night just to hear the commentary. Forget the technical terms - ("he's playing the seamer square into the gully off the leg stump") and revel in the banter.

How I miss Johnners and his fruitcakes! Aggers is a good successor, though.



Umpire Bowden's just raised the Finger of Doom!!!!

Oh no, not again!!!!!

Gill

[SharonW0111]

Clapping Wildly for Gill-- even tho I haven't a clue what she's bloody talking about.
I remain unsigned on this one -- snicker snicker

[PuzzledMoose]

You're not alone, Sharon - I'm English and don't understand half of that - but then I'm not a cricket fan - who would invent a game that takes more than one day to complete?????? Think watching paint dry ....

Now rugby, that's a different matter And we actually won an international again at last last weekend Canada unfortunately got stuffed by Wales..

But just to enlighten anyone interested:

The definition of Cricket as explained to a foreigner:

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 all 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!
Simple! ... »

I'll let Gill explain the rest of the rules ..

[SharonW0111]

OHHHH I get it -- It is like when the one that is on the right is on the left and the one on the left is on the right and the one on the rear is in the middle and the one in the middle ---says --" Oh Dear "( sigh ).
Clear as mud to me now -- thanks

[Gill]

Originally Posted by PuzzledMoose

I'll let Gill explain the rest of the rules ...

I think we need an Aussie to explain the rest of the rules. Judging from the way our team's performing right now, I don't think the English have a comprehensive understanding of the game.



Gill

[Back2Jake]

I don't think I have coffee STRONG enough to get me to focus on this. Giggle

I thought that the USA and England both spoke... english. But that was all foriegn to me!

[ChuckD]

DUH!!!!!!! Did she swear at us????

[PuzzledMoose]

Originally Posted by Grizz

I thought that the USA and England both spoke... english.

Whatever made you think that Grizz ? I've spent a year moderating and changing my vocabulary so I can be understood in Canada - the accent I'm unlikely to do much about though ...lol

[Gill]

If anyone knows a native American medicine man who could do a rain dance, please would you ask him if he could flood a certain cricket pitch in Brisbane, Australia? A plague of locusts to eat all the grass would be an equally acceptable alternative.

This test match has gone beyond a national humiliation.

Gill