#14874 - 01/12/01 04:07 PM
Re: but
|
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/12/00
Posts: 3409
|
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#14875 - 01/12/01 04:08 PM
Re: Waitrons' enjoyment
|
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 6511
Loc: lower upstate New York
|
...back to "Enjoy!" for a moment: that trasitive-arbitrarily-turned-instransitive irks me as well. What's worse, though (has anyone else experienced this?) is after the waitron unit has commanded you to "enjoy" s/he returns before you're finished eating and says, "You still working on that?" (maybe I frequent the wrong establishments  )
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#14877 - 01/13/01 07:29 PM
Re: LBW & Silly Mid On
|
Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/22/00
Posts: 1981
|
>international self esteem is not completely destroyed
Every nation has its own ways of maintaining its international self esteem. The main trick is to have a sport that no-one else plays then running a "world series" or "world championship" that no other country is eligible to enter. We have some rather fine darts players who seem to be able to occupy long periods of television without inviting any other country to compete.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#14878 - 01/13/01 07:52 PM
Re: LBW & Silly Mid On
|
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 11/13/00
Posts: 3146
Loc: Northamptonshire, England
|
Stales the Parochial said: Australia has even had to come up with the 'Australia A' concept, putting a second string team into the international competition (as well as the First XI). We've had to do this to ensure that our opponents have somebody they can defeat every now and then - an act of benevolent magnificence designed to ensure that international self esteem is not completely destroyed.That's what I said. Only the Strine could produce cricket teams like the ones you've got. After all, everyone's got to have at least one undisputed talent, no matter what it takes to maintain the "superiority"  I had Christmas Dinner with one of the umpires from the underarm match. He said it made him so ashamed to be an Austraaalian that he immediately went out and married a Kiwi - my neighbour's daughter. Ahhh, reflected notoriety, I just love it! 
_________________________
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#14880 - 01/13/01 11:17 PM
Re: Why test a cricket?
|
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 08/12/00
Posts: 3409
|
In reply to:
A lovely friend wrote that he was going to a test cricket.
I suspect that your friend may well have said that he was going to a cricket Test (short for Test match). A Test is any sporting fixture between national representative sides, at least, it is in cricket and the rugby codes. A Test match in cricket is a fantastic thing to watch, it's like chess on a field, although for large parts of its five-day existence, it can seem somewhat less athletic than chess.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#14882 - 01/14/01 03:30 AM
Re: LBW & Silly Mid On
|
Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/23/00
Posts: 2204
|
The main trick is to have a sport that no-one else plays then running a "world series" or "world championship" that no other country is eligible to enter
But it doesn't always work. The City of Lancaster has, for the past five or six years, held the International Sedan Chair Championship races. Typically, there have been six or eight local teams as the only entrants. Last year, a team from Denmark competed. They did well, although they didn't win. But with this experience, they will return next year and win - you can bet your breeches on it!
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
8419 Members
16 Forums
13686 Topics
209712 Posts
Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM
|
|
|
0 registered (),
33
Guests and
2
Spiders online. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25
|
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
31
|
|
|
|
Search
Previous Topic
Index