Maybe it's the number of fathoms below water level that the English cricket team is DownUnda ...... :-)
When I call cricket stuff sticks, my other half suffers painful facial twitches. So I try to remember to call them stumps instead, and bats and merely discuss whether we know what we're doing with them when we're in charge of them. Oddly - we discussed what has been happening down there last night. I say discussed - it was more me nodding at him during a monologue - but he planned to stay up to listen to it on the radio. I'm not sure how long it had been on, but the next chat came after we lost a wicket (that's a person in charge of using a stick to defend lots of smaller sticks) and he forecast we'd lose by an innings and 300 runs.
I've not had an update since.
or possibly the Oz rugby union's recent tour in the northern hemisphere.
I'm supposed to know this because it was chatted at me but I can't remember whether I was saying stuff like "ooh that's a bit embarrassing - never mind" or "Oh. That's nice."
This stick though has nothing to do with sport to my knowledge. I'm saying this at a time that I don't actually know anything about the origins of it. I'm also not particularly hopeful of finding that out either - but I will try. The important thing to remember though is what was on the stick was more fundamental to the experiment than the stick itself.
And now I've realised I forgot to say hello to everybody - I'll have to do that next post...
;)
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It must be noted that Kavanagh lives just a few miles north of some of the UK's most famous holes.
I read the news today, oh boy
4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on
@ our current quest:- I have become a little rusty at making sense of Annie's clues and must do better.
It has been a week of rediscovering relationships put to one side. Thank you all for the good wishes extended to us here. :-) A special thanks to Annie for her PM. We all, Kally (Kaleisha) especially, found it enormous fun and has revisited it more times than I can reliably swear to.
- congrats to the whole Ffing family. As a doctor of children I know about the highs and the ghastly lows. I wish you all the very best.
- I can always be relied upon to swear. My wife sez it is a bug. I say it's a feature.
- if you're looking for lots of holes, though man-made & relatively short, try Coober Pedy.
- I'll fess up to what is well known DownUnda to the general polity. We have been cheating at cricket. We have organised the spectators to synchronously breath in ( or out, depending ) over entire fractions of the stadium. These induced pressure variations have altered the flight of the bowled ball in rather sophisticated ways. The stupid commentators are not in on the gag. Thickheads. They say things like "my, isn't the ball swinging alot today" or "that was an unexpected googly" or "we looked at the pitch during the lunch break and none of us thought it would have any movement off the seam" etc ....
- the Barmy Army are not a worry with the above cunning plan, as they are in the minority, have been subtly herded into the one stadium section, plus can't coordinate their breathing well given all the beer we ply them with.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) As for protecting wickets, there is a wicket keeper. He stops people running off with them - I think that is what 'a run' means. But he can only be up at one end at a time. So they have this other guy ( umpire ? ) to watch the ones at the other end where the bowler goes past. The ball is there to throw at the batsmen if they look like they want to steal a wicket. All this of course has developed over the centuries. If I was designing the game today from the get go : I'd have no players all, put the wickets & stumps in as usual, but post crack snipers on all the tall lighting towers. Those pieces of wood would be super safe.
( edit ) Young Smitty can’t be bothered running at the moment. It’s too hot in Perth. So he just whacks the ball to the boundary instead..... Ladbrokes have Oz at 2.10 for a win, but the Sons Of Beer at 4.50 but interestingly a draw at 2.63 ....
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
We have so many sprinkled about our roads we could put our holes end to end. It says so here, and there's a picture of how to stack them.
I had a long long look at that. It's probably wiser we don't fill them all. There wouldn't be much left for us to perch on if we did, except each other which is always a bit fraught I think.
I also found out what those photo's that drag attention to a particular area of the image are and thought you'd all like to know *inflate nose with more air than usual*
It's interesting you brought up turkeys though, WK. It's a huge step forward for you all. Well done! :) Apparently. between 10 and 20% of the females grow beards. I don't know what our equivalent statistics are, but it's probably less relevant.
We have organised the spectators to synchronously breath in ( or out, depending ) over entire fractions of the stadium. These induced pressure variations have altered the flight of the bowled ball in rather sophisticated ways.
*snort everything up nose out nose*
Like that?
I see what you mean. I also see you're all very good at it, Mike...
I have become a little rusty at making sense...
I wouldn't worry, Mr Ffing. You're in good company...
I am just winning!!
...as Mikey has just demonstrated for us... y-e-e-e-e-s..
;)
Thanks all for making me laugh. I love the cricket bit.
Annie: Today's yogurt is Lemon Meringue.
*make Kathryn do one more thing...*
;)
edit to say the edit's are up there, not down here.
It's ^-this-^ that's down here.
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I see that the English are lulling us into a true sense of security by having an opening batting collapse .... which is odd as that has never worked before.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
A stick won ? Maybe it's
When I call cricket stuff sticks, my other half suffers painful facial twitches. So I try to remember to call them stumps instead, and bats and merely discuss whether we know what we're doing with them when we're in charge of them. Oddly - we discussed what has been happening down there last night. I say discussed - it was more me nodding at him during a monologue - but he planned to stay up to listen to it on the radio. I'm not sure how long it had been on, but the next chat came after we lost a wicket (that's a person in charge of using a stick to defend lots of smaller sticks) and he forecast we'd lose by an innings and 300 runs.
I've not had an update since.
I'm supposed to know this because it was chatted at me but I can't remember whether I was saying stuff like "ooh that's a bit embarrassing - never mind" or "Oh. That's nice."
This stick though has nothing to do with sport to my knowledge. I'm saying this at a time that I don't actually know anything about the origins of it. I'm also not particularly hopeful of finding that out either - but I will try. The important thing to remember though is what was on the stick was more fundamental to the experiment than the stick itself.
And now I've realised I forgot to say hello to everybody - I'll have to do that next post...
;)
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It must be noted that
It must be noted that Kavanagh lives just a few miles north of some of the UK's most famous holes.
There was controversy as I
There was controversy as I recall: :-) https://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2015/april/royal-albert-hall-was-furious-over-beatles-lyric-newly-discovered-documents-reveal/
@ our current quest:- I have become a little rusty at making sense of Annie's clues and must do better.
It has been a week of rediscovering relationships put to one side. Thank you all for the good wishes extended to us here. :-) A special thanks to Annie for her PM. We all, Kally (Kaleisha) especially, found it enormous fun and has revisited it more times than I can reliably swear to.
A few points if I may :-
A few points if I may :
- congrats to the whole Ffing family. As a doctor of children I know about the highs and the ghastly lows. I wish you all the very best.
- I can always be relied upon to swear. My wife sez it is a bug. I say it's a feature.
- if you're looking for lots of holes, though man-made & relatively short, try Coober Pedy.
- I'll fess up to what is well known DownUnda to the general polity. We have been cheating at cricket. We have organised the spectators to synchronously breath in ( or out, depending ) over entire fractions of the stadium. These induced pressure variations have altered the flight of the bowled ball in rather sophisticated ways. The stupid commentators are not in on the gag. Thickheads. They say things like "my, isn't the ball swinging alot today" or "that was an unexpected googly" or "we looked at the pitch during the lunch break and none of us thought it would have any movement off the seam" etc ....
- the Barmy Army are not a worry with the above cunning plan, as they are in the minority, have been subtly herded into the one stadium section, plus can't coordinate their breathing well given all the beer we ply them with.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) As for protecting wickets, there is a wicket keeper. He stops people running off with them - I think that is what 'a run' means. But he can only be up at one end at a time. So they have this other guy ( umpire ? ) to watch the ones at the other end where the bowler goes past. The ball is there to throw at the batsmen if they look like they want to steal a wicket. All this of course has developed over the centuries. If I was designing the game today from the get go : I'd have no players all, put the wickets & stumps in as usual, but post crack snipers on all the tall lighting towers. Those pieces of wood would be super safe.
( edit ) Young Smitty can’t be bothered running at the moment. It’s too hot in Perth. So he just whacks the ball to the boundary instead..... Ladbrokes have Oz at 2.10 for a win, but the Sons Of Beer at 4.50 but interestingly a draw at 2.63 ....
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I am just winning!!
I am just winning!!
Thanks all for making me
Thanks all for making me laugh. I love the cricket bit.
Annie: Today's yogurt is Lemon Meringue.
Kathryn :o)
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We have so many sprinkled
We have so many sprinkled about our roads we could put our holes end to end. It says so here, and there's a picture of how to stack them.
I had a long long look at that. It's probably wiser we don't fill them all. There wouldn't be much left for us to perch on if we did, except each other which is always a bit fraught I think.
I also found out what those photo's that drag attention to a particular area of the image are and thought you'd all like to know *inflate nose with more air than usual*
It's interesting you brought up turkeys though, WK. It's a huge step forward for you all. Well done! :) Apparently. between 10 and 20% of the females grow beards. I don't know what our equivalent statistics are, but it's probably less relevant.
*snort everything up nose out nose*
Like that?
I see what you mean. I also see you're all very good at it, Mike...
I wouldn't worry, Mr Ffing. You're in good company...
...as Mikey has just demonstrated for us... y-e-e-e-e-s..
;)
*make Kathryn do one more thing...*
;)
edit to say the edit's are up there, not down here.
It's ^-this-^ that's down here.
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
I see that the English are
I see that the English are lulling us into a true sense of security by having an opening batting collapse .... which is odd as that has never worked before.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
It was a cunning plan to
It was a cunning plan to bring on the raingods.
Richard
Kavanagh wrote:It was a
No rain here until maybe tomorrow then another chance the next day then back to more sunshine again.
I am already back to winning though!!