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Metropolis
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Joined: December 20 2004
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Topic: Is cricket the "prog-rock" of sports? Posted: March 16 2005 at 14:32 |
That gave me a headache
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We Lost the Skyline............
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Easy Livin
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Joined: February 21 2004
Location: Scotland
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Posted: March 16 2005 at 14:23 |
Here's an old definition of cricket:
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's 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 stay all 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 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!
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Cygnus X-2
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Joined: December 24 2004
Location: Bucketheadland
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Posted: March 15 2005 at 21:37 |
sigod wrote:
Blacksword wrote:
..sorry, got distracted for a moment... |
I think Poker is closer to Prog. Everybody bluffing it until they bust!
...or is that porn?
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I do agree with the poker though... I like playing poker... a lot of my prog rock buddies like playing, too.
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sigod
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Joined: September 17 2004
Location: London
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Posted: March 14 2005 at 11:57 |
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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Blacksword
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Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
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Posted: March 14 2005 at 10:10 |
..sorry, got distracted for a moment...
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Blacksword
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Joined: June 22 2004
Location: England
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Posted: March 14 2005 at 10:10 |
Cricket bores me to death
I only like sports that move fast, as I have the attention span of
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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arkitek
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Joined: January 31 2005
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: March 14 2005 at 02:14 |
i find cricket boring whats there to watch just a bunch of men hitting a ball and then someone trying to catch it fun to play though
Edited by arkitek
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Trotsky
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Joined: October 25 2004
Location: Malaysia
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Posted: March 14 2005 at 01:06 |
Any ol' yob can get excited about a Ruud Van Nistelrooy penalty, a Shaq dunk, a successful hail mary when your team is facing 3rd and 12 and even four guys in a wrestling ring calling themselves undertaker, exterminator and the like (I'm not sure if I just described wrestling or ice hockey, by the way) ...
but it takes a true poseur to sit through a five day match knowing full well it's likely to be a draw ... which led me to wonder ... is cricket the "prog-rock" of sports? What do you think?
From a Windies fan who suffers a little more every day ... (apologies in advance if topic has been broaced already)
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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