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Way Way Wayyyyy off topic, and sorry to everyone who does not live in UK or Australia/New Zealand because you wont know what Cricket is but just to say well done England on winning back the Ashes in a enthraling 5 Test series of which England won 2, Australia won 1 and 2 were drawn, if you have any messages of congratulations you can post them here…
Michael?? 😆
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Creaky old pedant that I am,
Apart from basques being rather fetching breast-vests (on the right sort of figure – female 🙂 ), it wasn’t Kenneth Williams who said “they don’t like it up ’em”.
He may have been repressed, but old Ken wouldn’t have gone that hetero. You’re thinking of Lance Corporal Jones (Clive Dunn of Dad’s Army) who reckoned the Germans “don’t like it up ’em”.
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Lee, my old mucker…
I do realize that “beaten in tennis by a 10yo” was a bad post, but it might be a “call time”. Lucky old Jason thinks your Basque-ing reflects a desire to leave Spain and call your kids “Ikar”. I’m less fortunate.
At this hour, I have visions of you celebrating the win by wearing a tassled tit-top with the cross of St George over your nips. “Freddie” Flintoff (product of nearby school) learing at you through drunken half-lids. Shades of Alan Partridge, frankly disturbing, and I’ve got work tomorrow 😆
Speaking of basking in glory, I onder what state the players will be in when they report back for county duties? Kevin Pietersen was on breakfast TV still looking drunk as a skunk yesterday. It’s been a few days; thought they’d have emptied the bottles by now.
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[quote=”jason”]First Lee said “I promise i wont say another word on it”
The very next day he said “basque in the glory of our Aussie beating and world beating team”
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i was refering to Basses ‘Tennis exploits’ not The Greatest Cricket team ever to grace the game, also you cant blame rickys decision to bat on the series defeat, it was one innings out of 2 on 1 test out of 5, it was a bad mistake, but it was the mighty world beating England that won the Ashes, not rickys mad batting decision.
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First Lee said “I promise i wont say another word on it”
The very next day he said “basque in the glory of our Aussie beating and world beating team”
Before you go too far in becoming a Spanish separatist, you might like to consider the fact that Australia is still Number 1 on the ICC test rankings. Probably because we beat India at home…. how long since England beat India at home????
I will bow down and honour the England cricket team if they can beat Australia at home in the next series, or when they reach Number 1 on the ICC rankings, or when they can beat David Boon’s record for the most number of beers drunk on a single flight from London to Sydney!
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[quote=”1bassleft”]Poor TB wondering which of the reprobates he could knight[/quote]
I believe the Queen is giving Ricky Ponting a Knighthood.
I had the pleasure of seeing a sneak preview of Her Majesty’s speech…
“The colonial man Ponting has earned this honour for services to English cricket, in particular his brilliant decision to put England in to bat on the first day of the second test – I’d Knight him twice if I could” -
I dont think you have to ‘in’ to cricket to basque in the glory of our Aussie beating and world beating team, as Kenneth Williams once said, ‘They dont like it up em’ , and looking at the reports coming out of Oz, they certainly dont! , the drains are coming up, and the a certain amount of ‘rodding’ will be performed over the next few months.
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Never quite got cricket…I was on both (league and union) Rugby teams at school, but I never really got that either, it consisted ‘of grab this big slippery egg thing, run as fast as hook until you taste soil then people will stand on you…in pointy shoes. I was quite highly revered for this and ‘represented my school in both disiplines’ for 5 years…which may explain something.
I was hit by a cricket ball once…that was enough, I opted to play hockey with the girls from then on, which was nice.
Tim.
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ps, did you see the ‘celebrations’? Flintoff as sober as a newt, in fact the whole team unable to maintain the ‘focus’ on a camera; never mind a bowler.
Aah, it brings me back to the good ol’ days – when a celebration was just that. Nowadays, even the footballers hold the Champions Cup aloft and drink mineral-water-based energy drinks. To me, that’s just not celebrating.
Highpoint was Tony Blair (never misses a trick) inviting them to 10 Downing Street and they all piled out of the bus pi-eyed and belching. Poor TB wondering which of the reprobates he could knight and get some votes out of it. He’s suddenly given Duncan Fletcher a passport. Arise Sir Dunc, next year?
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I promise i wont say another word on it, im sure the excitment in the UK will dwindle in time, just like it did with the Rugby World Cup (within 20 yrs) and im sure we will be beating you at that funny handball/football game you play, whats it called? ozzy rules footy or something?? anyway i think our players werent gloating like they could have, i think both teams had a lot of respect for eachother, and were closely matched, which is why i was glued to it for 5 weeks, look forward to the next one michael/Jason, Shane Warne was amazing over the 5 tests and i honestly thought he was going to make all the difference on the last day, but his batting in the first innings let you down, but what a great game..
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To Lee and 1Bass,
Consider the UK congratulated, without any smartarse comments or sour grapes from me.
But don’t push it or i’ll print out all your posts, burn them, put them in an urn, make it a prize for a posting competition, and to top it all off when someone wins I won’t even let them take the prize home!
Jason.
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I was going to be low-key but “Rugby World Cup” entered my head 😛
A cracking series; just a pity that man of the match was “bad light”. Still, it was England’s performance over the previous tests that won it. Wouldn’t mind cloning Shane’s DNA, though. Might even carry it myself to make sure of English citizenship 🙂
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The poms win one sporting event in 20 years and they hold on tight and never let it go 🙂
Apart from dingy pub darts and snooker what else have yas won 😛
Edit: just to further illustrate their obsession, here’s a screenshot of BBC devoting aproximately 3/4s of their front page to it.
[URL=http://img365.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bbcfront4to.jpg]http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/2093/bbcfront4to.th.jpg%5B/URL%5D
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