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My customary batting position is number twelve. I get to wear the whites, and flirt with the ladies, but can focus on the beer and sarnies instead of having to go out and chase that ruddy ball to the boundary... 
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batting position is number twelve
I once graced the Summer practice session of a Kent Colts type outfit, where we were treated to tuition by Ealham and Mike Denness (both Kent County players, and MD was briefly a captain of England, for all lucky non-cricketers!) After observing my batting in the nets he said with a leisurely Scottish drawl "Yes. Very... individualistic technique!" Once a maverick, always a maverick...
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Cap K notes: We play basically the same game (rugby and rugby league), but without the reinforced helmets, the Kevlar armour and the ad breaks.
American football has been described as embodying the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee* meetings. Rugby may qualify for the former but, unless you count a scrumdown as a committee meeting I don't think it qualifies for the latter.
*Aha! We were looking elsewhere for a second word with three double letters. Did they have to be consecutive?
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Faldage comments: Rugby may qualify for the former but, unless you count a scrumdown as a committee meeting I don't think it qualifies for the latter.
No, you're right. Scrums are not committee meetings. They are much more intimate than that ...
I never made it to anything other than drinks boy at rugby - too small (skinny) physically in them days, something I could never be accused of now. I bemoaned my fate publicly, but celebrated privately.
I went on to play left right out for one of the school's lesser soccer teams.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Capital Kiwi proclaims: I went on to play left right out for one of the school's lesser soccer teams.
What a coincidence! My father used to play left right out for the old St. Louis Browns! Or at least that's what he always used to tell me.
''Onward and upward St. Louis Browns!"
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Faldage fulminates: What a coincidence! My father used to play left right out for the old St. Louis Browns! Or at least that's what he always used to tell me.
To borrow one of my favourite phrases from M*A*S*H: "Finest kind". It's the only position to play. As shanks said in an earlier post, you get first go at the sarnies and (drinks). You don't get too wet and cold. Your mother doesn't go on at you about how dirty your kit is. Finest kind!
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Bugs the hell out of the serious players
Funny you should employ this locution in the middle of a discussion of leg theory in cricket. I believe crickets rub their legs together a good deal to produce their characteristic sound which is supposed to attract a mate. Is that part of the leg theory in question?
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BobYB comments: Funny you should employ this locution in the middle of a discussion of leg theory in cricket. I believe crickets rub their legs together a good deal to produce their characteristic sound which is supposed to attract a mate. Is that part of the leg theory in question?
Gives a whole new meaning to "leg before wicket", anyway.
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paulb, it occurred to me that women out of phase would be: woops! 
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… and, Jackie:
doctors would be 'droops';
anonymous people would be 'oops'.
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