Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes. To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 01:47:27 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96CFB13A724A73v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > weirdwolf wrote: > >> Jim Larson wrote in >> news:Xns96CFADE3576BB3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >> >>> weirdwolf wrote: >>> >>>> Jim Larson wrote in >>>> news:Xns96CFABF07B48F3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>>> >>>>> Kath wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yay! >>>>> >>>>> (?) >>>>> >>>> >>>> I was saying to Claire, for all the excitment it brings and the >>>> fame of the competition it must be the smallest trophy in sport. >>> >>> If by "small" you mean "totally irrelevant to anyone outside my >>> benighted island and its former penal colony" then yes. Yes it is. >>> >>> (I kid. I kid because I love. Or loathe. Take your pick.) >>> >> >> Well at least the world cup of cricket is a true world cup, unlike a >> certain baseball competition. Maybe that's because you are worried >> that as American baseball team would do as well as the basketball >> team. It would be amusing though if you lost to say Cuba, could you >> imagine the fun Castro would have pissing off Bush. > > I'm all for pissing off Bush. And if it's at the expense of a > professional sport, all the better! Perhaps Castro will kick you off the island for violating the lease? I can just imagine him coming round and knocking on the door. "Bush, HEY BUSH." muffled sounds of people diving for cover and muttered "Shit its the landlord everybody hide." Bush opens the door a crack. Castro tries to peer past Bush, "when we leased you this place you said it was only going to be somewhere for you to crash and get some food." "Well that's all it is" looks shifty. "Don't you lie to me your using it as some kind of flop house for all your friends, don't think I don't hear them coming in at all hours of the day and night causing a ruckuss with your frat boy hazing, I've seen the new guys tied and hooded as you make them perform degrading acts, and the noise! Morning, noon and night!" "nah" says Bush "you er you've got it all wrong we're all just praying in here, we are geting together a religous group, yeah that's it. We want to spread Christian values!" Castro looks peeved and slaps a peice of paper into Bush's hand,"Don't give me that I've had enough of your lying, that's it! I'm evicting you, you'll have to be out by noon tommorrow or the UN police will come round and throw you out. And don't think you are getting your security deposit back either just look what you've done to the place!" >> Have you ever seen the ashes urn? It's only about 10cm tall. >> http://specials.rediff.com/cricket/2005/jul/18cric1.htm > > One day, if it eats all its vegetables, it will grow up to be a big > trophy. > Not likely, it stays at Lords now whoever wins, the urn is terracotta and incredibly delicate. They found a crack in the base a few years ago IIRC. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .