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Ian Dalziel

Thu, 12 Feb 2015 07:17:35 +1300

bowling a googly…
I note that Rayan Lee’s web site (http://www.2015-icccricketworldcup.com/) began on January 3 in Jaipur, (registered to one Jitendra Sharma, and the address seems to be an empty section on a cul de sac in Jhotwara, Jaipur) and doesn’t seem to be officially linked to the ICC (insofar…

rayan lee

Thu, 12 Feb 2015 01:42:45 +1300

This year after 2 days, the biggest cricket event is going to be held in New Zealand and Australia. Do you know about it? Let me tell you everything

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Amy Galvani

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:22:34 +1300

I remember seeing Trevor Mallard zooming around the Beehive on a penny farthing too. And many times since in a recurring dream...

Kyle Matthews

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:20:42 +1300

Remember the during Olympics how the cycling commentator who would always be saying "Now he's riding a X inch wheel which means that for every turn of the pedals...blah blah blah" :)

Yeah. But now they use these new-fangled things called gears. Young folk these days.

Hadyn Green

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:42:51 +1300

Sorry Haydn, you'll have to remind me, am I C'mon the Bay, or Go the Bay?
(Condolences on BoP BTW)

You can be either now :)

Southland just made "the list"

Paul Rowe

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:25:02 +1300

The mighty Magpies have done the mooloos! Made hard work of it in the end, but 28-0 at half time was a happy time.

Sorry Haydn, you'll have to remind me, am I C'mon the Bay, or Go the Bay?

(Condolences on BoP BTW)

Joe Wylie

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:22:06 +1300

At the fake-newspaper Framley Examiner site (http://www.framleyexaminer.com/) there's a "Girl's Mountain Penny-Farthing" for sale in the classifieds, along with a "Crack Pipe with Colourful Logo – World's Greatest Mum"'.
If you really fancy a penny-farthing there's a guy in Chch. who'll build you one. I believe the wheel size depends…

Hadyn Green

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:54:58 +1300

Like, do you need a leg-up? Or is there a mounting stand for a penny-farthing?

from memory you have to get a running start. They aren't the most agile of vehicles though. Trevor looked terrified when he got near where we were sitting and had to do a u-turn. It's…

Danielle

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:18:12 +1300

Trevor Mallard batting about on a penny-farthing

Leaving aside the surrealism of that image for the moment: I've always wanted to try riding one of those. They're such an incomprehensibly Victorian mode of transport. Like, do you need a leg-up? Or is there a mounting stand for a penny-farthing? Do…

Hadyn Green

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:08:17 +1300

the South African rugby team is going to replace the Springbok logo with a Protea.

I was totally against it, then...

The Springbok is a symbol with some pretty offensive connotations to 80% or so of the population.

Then I was for it, then...

actually there was no quote

...I…

LegBreak

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:31:19 +1300

PR,

Pretty sure the cricketers did it upon readmission.

But then cricket, in South Africa as everywhere, has always been a little more enlightened.

Paul Rowe

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:54:23 +1300

I'm with LB, I'm amazed it's taken this long – it's been in the air for ages, and the cricketers did it years ago.

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:54:19 +1300

They could call their team The Lions. After all:
1. Everyone else does.
2. They actually have some in South Africa.

LegBreak

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:15:58 +1300

the South African rugby team is going to replace the Springbok logo with a Protea.
To use the langue de l'Internet : WTF!

The main WTF here is that it took so long.

The Springbok is a symbol with some pretty offensive connotations to 80% or so of the population.…

Hadyn Green

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:19:55 +1300

I was very close to writing a separate post about this (and I still might on the Dropkicks where I'm allowed more four-letter words): the South African rugby team is going to replace the Springbok logo with a Protea.

To use the langue de l'Internet : WTF!

Hadyn Green

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:54:50 +1300

Speaking of rugby jerseys, I think it was Racing Club de France in Paris who had the powder-blue jerseys with the fold-over collar and the little bow-tie at the throat – now they were classy with a capital C

It absolutely was Racing, and the bow tie is now the…

Hadyn Green

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:44:58 +1300

Hadyn, I realise you're speaking tongue-in-cheek regarding politicians' sporting abilities, but in all seriousness if a politician can convince some people to take up sport, even to a limited extent, that's a good thing.

No apology necessary Grant, you're right. Politicians encouraging healthy activities is a good thing.

I remember…

Richard Irvine

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:36:06 +1300

Classy Boris Yeltsin started a tennis revolution in Russia – here's why.

There was a clip of Boris playing Tennis drunk off 60 minutes or the like, couldn't find it though.

Dave Patrick

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:06:09 +1300

Speaking of rugby jerseys, I think it was Racing Club de France in Paris who had the powder-blue jerseys with the fold-over collar and the little bow-tie at the throat – now they were classy with a capital C

Grant McDougall

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:54:07 +1300

Hadyn, I realise you're speaking tongue-in-cheek regarding politicians' sporting abilities, but in all seriousness if a politician can convince some people to take up sport, even to a limited extent, that's a good thing.
Govts around the world are spending a lot of money in their health systems combatting obesity…

Paul Rowe

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:32:05 +1300

Love xkcd, have wasted a lot of time there.

What is it about Americans electing dufuses?

Hadyn Green

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:16:47 +1300

Paul, that's hilarious! (as is the xkcd comic about it)

And let us not forget Don Brash at the speedway (which is a hell of a thing to find a picture of!)

Paul Rowe

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:42:15 +1300

Is fishing a sport?

Jimmy Carter liked to combine it with rabbit hunting.

LegBreak

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:50:52 +1300

So you’re not counting John Morrison as a top-line politician then?

Hadyn Green

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:54:57 +1300

A range of politicians are competent at golf, but that isn't a sport.

The Guardian blog lists a number of presidents who played golf and also a few who cheat (Clinton and Nixon).

Nixon was also a bowler.

Paul Rowe

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:48:57 +1300

I remember a veeeery long time ago a joke in Mad Magazine that went something like:

Ronald Reagan can't have played College Basketball like he claimed because basketball wasn't invented until 1891.

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:26:34 +1300

Helen Clark is a pretty reasonable cross-country skier.

British Prime Minister Edward Heath captained his yacht Morning Cloud to win the Admiral's Cup in 1971. I think this might make him the only recent world leader to win a top class sporting event while in office. (The Admiral's Cup was…

Public Address

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:26:34 +1300

Discussion from blog post.