Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes. To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 03:05:15 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > 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. (King of Spain?) -- Jim .