Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes. To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 02:59:30 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape John Iwaniszek wrote in news:Xns96CFDE15631E2joiwhnanri@66.26.32.7: > weirdwolf wrote in > news:Xns96D01C9E93F81r73u67jw56nas@62.253.170.163: > >> John Iwaniszek wrote in >> news:Xns96CFDD9BC2B98joiwhnanri@66.26.32.7: >> >>> weirdwolf wrote in >> news:Xns96D0D6E2C7EEr73u67jw56nas@ >>> 80.5.182.99: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> Have you ever seen the ashes urn? It's only about 10cm tall. >>>> http://specials.rediff.com/cricket/2005/jul/18cric1.htm >>>> Ted >>>> >>> >>> This may come as a surprise, but I never actually worry about >>> baseball. >> >> As you are so caught up in the cricket. >> Ted >> > > I am totally caught up on cricket: England rules! > Well to be perfectly honest it's England and Wales. The ECB is the England and Wales Cricket Board. Scotland and Ireland have their own boards. However Geraint Jones has been keeping like people have been bowling a wet bar of soap at him throughout the rubber so the less said about the Welsh contribution the better. The King of Spain has done the Warwickshire team proud though. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .