There’s an outside chance that our non cricket loving members might enjoy these, I did…
The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.
Barry Richards, 1980
Are you going to get out or do I have to come round the wicket and kill you?
Malcolm Marshall to David Boon
Shane Warne: I’ve waited two years for another chance to humiliate you.
DaryllCullinan: Looks like you spent it eating. Continue reading “Cricket chirps”
I must get up for a pee again, to the dowly pee must I hie,
And all I ask if I fall or slip no mar to veer forbye,
And the real kick the wind’s strong and the night hails its breaking,
And a fey frist my dreams replace, and a blay drawn aching.
Continue reading “Pee Fever”
This months ‘poetry’ competition theme is parody and while searching for answers to Boa’s ‘Who are they?’ competition I came across the music hall comedian Billy Bennett. I recall that many extracts from his monologues were catch phrases, some of which still are – ‘It’s the same the whole world over – it’s the poor what gets the blame!’
Our national broadcaster is very kindly broadcasting every game of the cricket world cup, I always have a match on while driving around here and this ad is flighted reasonably often, it always makes me smile. So I thought that a few cherished colleagues might like it.
Here it is: funny ad (Simply click and select ‘open’ when prompted)
Enjoy!
You can’t make this stuff up!
Mario Baloteli (pictured left, he’s the one in the dark shirt) the £24 million signing from Inter Milan had to be substituted last night because he’s allergic to GRASS !!
What next?
Here’s an e-mail that I received recently, I found it hilarious.
Shannon (the cat owner) asks a mate (Dave) for help designing a poster, Dave appears to be some sort of budding designer, are you sitting comfortably?
Good, then I’ll begin…
From: Shannon Walkley
Date: Monday 21 June 2010 9.15am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Poster
Hi
I opened the screen door yesterday and my cat got out and has been missing since then so I was wondering if you are not to busy you could make a poster for me. It has to be A4 and I will photocopy it and put it around my suburb this afternoon.
This is the only photo of her I have she answers to the name Missy and is black and white and about 8 months old. missing on Harper street and my phone number.
Thanks Shan. Continue reading “Missing Cat E-mail”
No, not the SCA (that’s a story for another time). It’s just the people at Sporcle, outdoing themselves in the creative chuckling department. I got 14/19 and 16/20 respectively.
The daughter of one of my Ghanaian friends had a problem pronouncing the plural of the word “crisp”. She had no trouble saying, “the air is crisp this autumn morning” but had great difficulty in saying “May I have packet of crisps please?” Her problem was not knowing when to stop making the “sps” sound at the end of the word. It would have been easier for her to say “May I have a packet of cripps please?” (Cripps being plural and a crip being singular.) So she would in effect be saying “May I have a packet of crispspsps please.” This used to annoy me because I suspected she was taking the pss. Curiously today, my wife (Ghanaian) said to me “Honey, would you like a packet of cripps?”.
(And thanks to Ara and Bilby for the technical knowhow!)
Some of you have noticed, I see many common with Mediterranean people and us. I get on quite well especially with Italians.
Some years ago, I came across to this animation. I don’t know if Italy is still as in the animation but I know Turkey is. 🙂 Just change the Italian flag with Turkish in the animation.
Boadicea's Chariot 
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