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- Wolfboy0
I think describing Frankie Boyle as a comedian is a pretty broad statement.
- Really? Huh.
Who'd'you like, then?Nairn - He's funny as fuck!babaganush
- Hey, back to the cricket, please!MrOneHundred
- Howzat?
monoboy
- Really? Huh.
- mikotondria30
ah, cricket's got its own impenetrable magic..
I must have been about 12 when I just idly happened to watch 3 or 4 hours of a match on tv one summer - it really is a summer thing, too, something about the hypnotic relentless glare of the sun, in fact if it's not sunny then the cricketing term 'rain stopped play' comes into force..
It's a game of high joy enducing drama punctuating long periods of build-ups and endless commentator speculation, with the guys on the field apparantly doing very little - the fielders gradually drawing in because the bowler has signalled them he's gonna be spinning this one in...the crowd gradually become more restless as the bowler finishes shining the ball on the inside leg of his pants, and slowly looks more concentrated, a tense bubbling hush begins to settle around the ground - a lone bird flies past the pavilion clock - 4 minutes til Lunch - if they can get one more wicket, especially this guy's, before lunch, what a great psychological boost that will be going into this afternoon's play - the batsman is looking for a 4 - to take them to 50 for 3, 50 going to lunch wouldn't be too shabby, indeed not, geoffrey, and slowly the bowler begins to wind himself up like a snake, jogging toward to the wicket, his arm arches up and over, his wrist cocked as the fielders are walking up behind the batsman, briskly now, the ball flies through the air in an improbable arc for just a second, the batsman sees it, steps out, the bat swoops through the air, the ball lands on a worn patch of ground, on the seam, jumps up like a scalded rabbit away, and towards the batters leg, with just the quiestest 'clip' on the edge of the bat, sailing up toward the fielder, now only a few feet back, who grabs it, for sure, and tosses it into the air...'howwzaaaattTT!!!!' they all scream, the silence shattered, the crowd roars and all eyes are on the man in the white coat.
He's gone ! He's gone !
- Wolfboy0
Nairn, off the top of my head...
Stand ups: Stewart Lee, Judah Friedlander, Sean Lock, Dylan Moran
comedy acts: Flight of the Conchords, Reeves and Mortimer
- Frankie Boyle is as funny as any of them man!babaganush
- Who's Judah Friedlander? brother of Rover Friedlanderbabaganush
- Oh come on, Boyle's far funnier than that dense cunt Sean "the moon's got an atmosphere" Lock.Nairn
- Quite like that Stewart Lee though - he's got much better and drier as the years have gone on. No idea who JF is.Nairn
- He's the guy with the glasses on 30 Rock, I saw him do stand up in a little club in New York earlier this year and he was brilliant.Wolfboy
- ...I like that talkiing heads son, 'And she was'babaganush
- yeah, Stewart Lee is ageing really well. He has really grown into his style - I saw him live a while ago and he had the room in the palm of his hands by just describing what was happening in the room.Wolfboy
- in the palm of his hands by just describing what was happening in the room in terms of two people laughing at one joke then 4 more laughing at that. (had to be there)Wolfboy
- heh, I can imagine - the guy's quite Meta. I should try and go see him sometime myself - I do like a bit of stand up.Nairn
- Do you? You're in London? Where do you play? Hen & Chickens?Wolfboy
- eh? No, I don't do stand up myself! :) I do live just up the road from there though...Nairn
- oh yes, totally read that wrong. I'm a little pissed - I've been at a gallery opening tonight. John Squire's new show and I met him.Wolfboy
- Llyod0
wtf are you people blithering on about?
- Wolfboy0
one thing to remember about cricket is that they have a bat and a ball the same as baseball but no gloves on the outfield players - their catches are truly skillful:
- ...and there isn't a 'World serikes' where the only countries that compete are the USbabaganush
- the same can be said of the run outs too - in cricket you have to hit the stumps, not just throw it to the man near the stumps.Wolfboy
- And the kit is WAY coolerbabaganush
- Wolfboy0
my favourite ever run out (yes I'm English):
- meh...MrOneHundred
- he was a substitue!! Bahahha. the look on ol' Ricky's face when he saw who it was was the moment of the series.Wolfboy
- You well know the Aussies do this five or six times a game. ;-)MrOneHundred
- _me_0
Right. So the guy from the other team is called a "bowler" and he's trying to knock your pies down before you can eat them. He throws with an overhand motion, releasing the ball before he steps into the crease, usually bouncing the ball on the ground to make it harder for the pie-eater to pick up. To protect your pies, you have a bat, and when he throws the ball, you swing the bat and try to swat the ball away. If you hit it, you and the other pie-eater switch places and then you can eat one of his pies.
- _me_0
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he is out. When they are all out, the side that's been out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
"When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out, he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who are out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
- yep, that’s about it. Oh you forgot the drinks breaks.MrOneHundred
- Wow! More ins and outs than straight fucking!boobs
- Llyod0
I like pie. Why can't I like cricket?
- boobs0
It's like this, see:
Cricket is to baseball as George Michael is to James Brown.