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Dang it, maverick, that wasn't cricket, 'specting us sophisticated US'n's to get it. (Wish I'd had the time to LIU yesterday, but.) Batman is a bastard when he sledges? (Note: expect horripilation from the Kiwi contingent.) http://www.abcofcricket.com/Article_Library/art57/art65/art65.htm
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And I thought a batman was an officer's valet.
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I've often wondered if the similarity between dear and teuer is merely coincidental.
They are cognate, and deer and Tier are, too.
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>Batman is a bastard when he sledges
Well, there is no such thing as a batman in cricket. There are batsmen, but no batmen, as least not that I know of.
As for the comment about Kiwi sledgers, it was followed up by a piece of cricketing irony, or possibly just plain sarcasm, namely, "A leggie doesn’t take a bozillion Test wickets by deceiving people." Deceiving people is, of course, precisely how a good legspinner does take wickets. Although in Warnie's cse, it might be argued that he boored them to death.
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And the South African team could Boer them to death.
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> And I thought a batman was an officer's valet.
Half way there ~ so whence the reference to 'bat'?
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good fun this thread..
BASTARD: Middle English; via Old French from medieval Latin bastardus, probably from bastum ‘packsaddle’; compare with Old French fils de bast, literally ‘packsaddle son’ (i.e. the son of a mule driver who uses a packsaddle for a pillow and is gone by morning)
BATMAN:mid 18th cent. (originally denoting an orderly in charge of the bat horse pack-horse which carried the officer's baggage): from Old French bat (from medieval Latin bastum ‘packsaddle’) + man.
Oh, I cheated all right; straight from the horse's mouth, (my B&M dict) all the above stuff. Am still stumped by my searches for the good Doctor.
Mav, why the comma and space between post and card. Is there something there or is spot the difference getting to me?
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Great job, maahey - and research is a Good Thang :)
oh, the comma thing was just a playful way of saying "don't send guesses by PM or the separate answers thread, just post 'em".
Ok, another clue: with Dr Who, think about his adversaries...
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Ok, another clue: with Dr Who, think about his adversaries...
Never much got into Dr Who, but I remember he was usually fighting Daleks.
Encyclopedia from Latin from Greek enkuklios paideia 'general education', en 'in' + kuklos 'wheel'
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> Daleks
Getting very close... "Exterminate! Exterminate!"
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