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Blofeld isn't Sports commentary by any measure (measure?) of the word. It's more like a window to a bygone era...hmm...maybe i should take this to the old fogies thread.

I love the Guardian OBO:

As it happens I met a tree the other day and informed it that due to Dutch Elm disease I would have to cut it down. Well would you believe it, turned out it was a larch and was thoroughly nonplussed at my insensitivity, I mean it was behaving like an elm, and I told it as much, and did you know...ad nauseum....

Listen to the cricket on radio 5 live. Blofeld's on, right royal entertainment, I say old thing.

Rosenthal? Good stuff, though not one for long term is it.

What it should have said was "telegraph reader spotted in forest" As it happens, everyone with a bit of dust in their lens seems to spot (geddit) the paranormal!!

Apparently Patterson is batting in a Devon Malcomesque fashion. Mind you, a 4!!!!!!

And that's broad, a double kiss...err wrong sport

Broad and Flintoff, potentially a mighty fine partnership, or a kiss of death by me

Unlikely person to agree with mee about jaw jaw being better than war war. Oh, and that's exactly right Brendan ;)

It's more the heart on the sleeve excitability, and joy in things.

If it's any consolation (and it most certainly may not be) I did have rather a thing for Balckadder's Queenie ;)

Spot on Brendan, though even more technically the 'Celtic' cultures weren't even that Celtic, that being a misnomer heaped on them by a (ironically welsh) chap who actually thought the Celts were Central European Germanics, which they weren't. Not to say there was no celtic influence, which there was, it was just much much less so than the stock misunderstanding, as given us by EDOldie, would have us think. And yes ratty the Celts did wander up the Atlantic coast from Spain/southern France. Right Brendan, remind me to give you that book when next we meet.

True D_C, true, though Simon Jones has taken the same number of wickets in 80 odd fewer deliveries.

The little ex-hammer, he was better for you guys than he was for us. But probably not. I reckon the only first team player will be Chris Dickson.

So, Pattison has played 11 first class matches in his entire life, until yesterday afternoon thought he was off to Alton Towers, and until a little over a year ago was a tiler in Melbourne. He was born in Grimsby though.

Damn, this is a great event. Sadly am getting fitted up (so to speak) in the emerald isle.

Wedensday week, the 30th

D_C, perfect!! Though I'd have suggested Major Edwin Phipps from Ripping Yarns for you ;)

Pre season games aren't for the fans of, they're utterly dull. They're for fans of small and foreign clubs to see some famous faces. Did I mention Charlton are coming to Sainsbury's Hamlets? Err...did I say famous faces?!?!

was always rather partial to this fella If you're being serious, then, at a pinch, Yossarian the Assyrian.

I don't know if you can see but I'm pointing to some drums and a crash cymbal ;)

back on top, a Universal Mouse , so I can point at anything, not just stuff on my screen. I kep trying to point things out in the real world, or on other peoples screens at work with my mouse. It should just know where I'm looking and damn well point at it.

Although there was some allegation that that was a car jacking, though sounded like a pisspoor excuse from a hit and run perpetrator frankly

edited to say *yeah yeah, well done D_C*