The Ashes (Sydney Steve)

[Jim Nasium]

2-1 should be 3-1, The Oval will be interesting.

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Jim Nasium:
2-1 should be 3-1, The Oval will be interesting. HUmmph hiuimph
I guess it largely depends on whether they follow the correct rules of cricket eh?
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/cricket.htm
Is the gas holder still there at the gasworks end BTW??

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Jim Nasium:
2-1 should be 3-1, The Oval will be interesting. and another thought
I was born in Sherborne Dorset and lived there for most of my life it is 5 miles East of Yeovil in Somerset
Many's the time involuntarily listening to a sports report (of which there are far too many in my iopinion on every radio station) I gave a start and realised that the cricket match they were lovingly pouring over was being played at The Oval (the main cricket pitch in London and not the similarly sounding Yeovil!!)
John Fowles

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Jim Nasium:
2-1 should be 3-1, The Oval will be interesting. and another thought
I was born in Sherborne Dorset and lived there for most of my life it is 5 miles East of Yeovil in Somerset
Many's the time involuntarily listening to a sports report (of which there are far too many in my iopinion on every radio station) I gave a start and realised that the cricket match they were lovingly pouring over was being played at The Oval (the main cricket pitch in London and not the similarly sounding Yeovil!!)
John Fowles

[Sydney Steve]

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Aaah. The cricket..... Slipped my mind actually Jim.(not!).. I have since when last boasting to you of likely Australian domination have most surprisingly lost interest in cricket and gained it in ...let me think ... aah yes "Country With The Most Poisonous Animals" lol....

PS Your erstwhile countryman Mr Fowles,( normally a poster of some repute - and quick to note posting irregularities from latitudes south of the equator), ) normally goes for the War & Peace " posts. Now he leaves them short but doubles up ????
Don't delete one of them Fowles , - leave the evidence there you coward !!! (lol)

PS On the Yeovil subject ,of misunderstood stuff, when I was 3 maybe 4 we (like you Poms had to sing the National Anthem at major occasions , which at that time here was "God Save The Queen" . I am told by my Mum I sang "....send her to Victoria " (not victorious)- Victoria is our neighbouring and not necessarily always admired rival state (lol)

[ August 29, 2005, 04:40: Message edited by: Sydney Steve ]

[Jim Nasium]

Sydney Steve, your boys fly back to Oz tomorrow (13th) give em a good welcome, they tried hard.

[Sydney Steve]

Tears of blood...
That day no Australian wants to see has come....
And an era has ended.....

The Ashes are England's

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Well its a case of our boys not being good enough. Some rebuilding to be done and it may be a while...
To quote the wonderful Harry Chapin " All my lifes a circle...."

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Sydney Steve:
Tears of blood...
That day no Australian wants to see has come....
And an era has ended.....
The Ashes are England's
To which I can only respond
HLOLARAWCHAWMP =
Hysterically Laughing Out Loud And Rolling Around While Clapping Hands And Wetting My Pants
from
http://www.2ndwind.org/abb_msg.htm

I had noted that the Sydney lunatic had been uncharacteristically subdued as he faced the awful prospect of his country's prize team losing the ashes
Today I read an amusing report at:-
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2005/09/10/ncricket110.xml
on the engrossing theme
"Ashes angst puts the zest back in Pommy-bashing
(Filed: 10/09/2005)
England is the country Australia loves to hate and, thanks to the climax to the Ashes, the national sport of Pommy-bashing is now back with a vengeance."
I guess this partly explains why he has been so unpardonably rude to me of late!!
This followed an earlier and doubly topical report at:-
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/09/wkat309.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/09/ixworld.html
under the title
"British solicitor prepares for a long innings"
By Harry Mount in New Orleans
(Filed: 09/09/2005)
The Louisiana state troopers were left bemused yesterday when they tried to move one of the last stragglers from New Orleans, an English solicitor who was more concerned about the Ashes score
For the benefit of any furreners who do not understand the rules of this wonderful game I will repeat here that I have a concise=brief summary on my site at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/cricket.htm
John Fowles

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here "mobile(phone)is of course the correct name for a "cell-phone"

[ September 12, 2005, 19:24: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

[johnfowles]

My turn to have the last word!
I was just listening to a particular song and it suddenly hit me.
Once again our Gord got there first
just take a look at these words by our favo(u)rite bard
From the ashes, I have kept the homefires
Burning after all was said and done
Now take a look at me
Do I look like the kind of guy
The kind of fool .........who had to stand on a stool (upside down to boot)!!!

Not only was Gord writing about cricket but he also queried the character of that man last seen walking on his head and trying simultaneously to hang it in shame
Crikey indeed!!
John Fowles
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The result of friction caused by spinning around on one's head!!

[Sheryl]

John, I declare you to be the winner, hahahahahaha!!!!

[Sydney Steve]

Ahh Mr Fowles,
I thought it would be only fair to acknowledge sporting victories of the English. (Other than obvious ones where the POMS excel (like "painful whinge over the measured 4 paragraphs" and "hide the soap"... ) - which everyone learns about sooner or later..
So I thought you may be interested to know that the following response came up when I typed in "English Sporting Triumphs" ..

Your search - English sporting triumphs - did not match any documents.

This flummoxed me. Despite my good intentions it became obvious to any reader that Google does not consider whingeing or avoiding a wash as genuine sporting pursuits ???????? Shame really or it was all gold medals for your (ex) mob .... tongue.gif

[ September 16, 2005, 08:32: Message edited by: Sydney Steve ]

[Jim Nasium]

Lets remind ourselves of Australia's great contribution to the world, em, well, nothing springs to mind.

What about the world of cinema? Who can forget the great Chips Rafferty, WHO? I hear you cry. Even the Ozzies have forgotten him.

The world of song? Of course, Slim Dusty, right up there with Chips.

What about sporting heros?

The Great White Shark (Greg Norman) remember the Masters of 1996.......

In 1996 Norman led by six shots after three rounds, after equalling the course record with a 63 in the first round. Norman's golf game collapsed in front of a huge International audience hoping for it to hold firm. Nick Faldo, so often Norman's nemesis, shot a rock solid 67 to turn a six shot deficit into a five shot winning margin. Norman and Faldo embraced on the final green in a touching and moving reminder that sport can destroy its own as quickly as it can shoot them to stardom.

Even the ozzie press renamed him The Great White Shrimp

For those of you who don't know, Nick Faldo is English.

[Jim Nasium]

Lets remind ourselves of Australia's great contribution to the world, em, well, nothing springs to mind.

What about the world of cinema? Who can forget the great Chips Rafferty, WHO? I hear you cry. Even the Ozzies have forgotten him.

The world of song? Of course, Slim Dusty, right up there with Chips.

What about sporting heros?

The Great White Shark (Greg Norman) remember the Masters of 1996.......

In 1996 Norman led by six shots after three rounds, after equalling the course record with a 63 in the first round. Norman's golf game collapsed in front of a huge International audience hoping for it to hold firm. Nick Faldo, so often Norman's nemesis, shot a rock solid 67 to turn a six shot deficit into a five shot winning margin. Norman and Faldo embraced on the final green in a touching and moving reminder that sport can destroy its own as quickly as it can shoot them to stardom.

Even the ozzie press renamed him The Great White Shrimp

For those of you who don't know, Nick Faldo is English.

[Sydney Steve]

Jim,
You conveniently overlook that England have no one at all in one of the lesser known, but nonetheless very demanding disciplines " Sleazy SMS messages and soirees behind the wifes back..." - (Shane Warne).
See excerpt below: Top this if you can Jim!!!

Ace Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne has been caught two-timing again.

According to The Mirror, Warne is reported to have had sex with Kerrie Collimore, 31, on the bonnet of his BMW and sent her filthy texts as he tried to save his marriage. He is reported to have assured her that he was separated from his wife, Simone, before getting into the act.

"He couldn't keep his hands off her. He wanted sex everywhere - outside, inside, wherever he could," one of Kerrie's friends was quoted by the tabloid, as saying.

The friend also found 48 messages from Warne on Kerrie's phone which the sales manageress had left lying around.
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Now go ahead and argue that we have contributed nothing of cultural worth (if you dare.)

[johnfowles]

Originally posted by Sydney Steve:
So I thought you may be interested to know that the following response came up when I typed in "English Sporting Triumphs" ..

Your search - English sporting triumphs - did not match any documents.
p As Captain Mainwaring said often in Dad's Army about young Pike "You stupid boy" no wonder your search was fruitless due I submit to your erroneously putting that three word phrase inside quotation marks to needlessly limit the serch but google obviously found no web page with that exact sequence, now if you search instead for plain (unquoted)
English Sporting Triumphs google finds some 104,000 reults.(admittedly not all specifically about English triumphs
John Fowles
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Including these thoughts from the oddly named site:-
http://board.dogbomb.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-26386.html
Why do the English gloat over victories past...

Its the same through all sports with Colin mcRae being the 95 world champion or Mansell in F1 or Frank "panto dame" Bruno in boxing.
Stupid amounts of pressure is piled on our Sporting heroes to live up to these past glories and when they fail (Tiger Tim?) we go to town on them.......and......
Every country remembers their sporting Triumphs (failing having any,they remember a goal they scored against Holland once),we`re no different to any other country in that respect

[ September 17, 2005, 08:43: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

[Jim Nasium]

Steve, I stand corrected. Well done Shane Warne, not only a world class spinner.

Also I have overlooked that very important Australian contributionn to global development, the Boomerang.

Can any bright spark explain to me why my post has been posted twice once as unregistered Jim Nasium and again as registered Jim Nasium?