Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes. To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 03:35:54 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Jim Larson wrote in > news:Xns96CFC22AEDC403v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > >> 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?) >> > > There is and England and Warwickshire bowler called Ashley Giles. > Somebody at Edgbaston,(the Warwickshire county ground in Birmingham,) > ordered a load of mugs with his picture on and the legend "the king of > spin." When they arrived the printer had made the error which made Giles > "the king of spain." It appealed to the Bears fans sense of humour and > sort of stuck. My dad however is old enough to have seen a member of a > royal family play cricket at both county and international level. The > Nawab of Pataudi played for Sussex and India,captaining India when he was > only 21. Interesting fellow he only has one eye, he had a car accident > just before he became captain of India. His father was the only player to > have played at test level for both England and India. (Test level?) -- Jim .