Cricket references in non-cricket (OK, mostly US) culture
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Abandon hope ye sinners?
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Pfft. I see that at the Dartford Crossing. I can't believe i have to pay to go into Essex. It should be the other way round.
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Henry Nolonga wrote: I can't believe i have to pay to go into Essex.
We do have standards. It's to keep out all the Kent riff-raff
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I don't think the people who took in Dave Masters can talk about standards
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David Masters...oh dear.
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JKLever wrote:Henry Nolonga wrote: I can't believe i have to pay to go into Essex.
We do have standards. It's to keep out all the Kent riff-raff
Kentish riff-raff?
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Henry Nolonga wrote:I don't think the people who took in Dave Masters can talk about standards
We feel sorry for the downtrodden, we are not without compassion...
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You want a thread titled that, you start one...JKLever wrote:The thread is poorly worded. Should be 'Cricket references in countries with no cricket culture'...
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London is a fantastic place. Wouldn't want to live there for any length of time, but a genuinely exciting place to visit.
Also, keeping it vaguely (only vaguely) related to the thread, I've just finished reading 'life, the universe and everything', which is basically one massive cricket reference, but I am curious, does anyone know if there was a game in 198- at Lords where England required twenty seven runs to win? I suspect not, but I still hope so.
Also, keeping it vaguely (only vaguely) related to the thread, I've just finished reading 'life, the universe and everything', which is basically one massive cricket reference, but I am curious, does anyone know if there was a game in 198- at Lords where England required twenty seven runs to win? I suspect not, but I still hope so.
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Not against Australia there wasn't.
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I think Douglas Adams was a cricophile, so there could be something to it. Plus I think he wrote some of the "Doctor Who" episodes with cricket references.
Not that that should be surprising in an English show commissioned by the BEEB.
Not that that should be surprising in an English show commissioned by the BEEB.
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The match in LU&E was an Ashes match. The book was written in 1983 or 84.
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In Naked Gun 331/3 toward the end of the film, there is an England Cricket top in one of the scenes.
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It's really getting bad if there's three months between posts.
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There was a paper on semantic learning where the authors considered using 'cricket' as an example to explain the treatment of polysemy, but settled on 'fly' instead. In the US.
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Once saw a Farside cartoon with someone getting in a mess putting glue onto a gate and saying something about a sticky wicket. Obviously Gary Larson, who draws the Farside cartoons, had no idea what a sticky wicket really is or where the reference comes from.
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ever hopeful wrote:Once saw a Farside cartoon with someone getting in a mess putting glue onto a gate and saying something about a sticky wicket. Obviously Gary Larson, who draws the Farside cartoons, had no idea what a sticky wicket really is or where the reference comes from.
I think Gary Larson is Canadian so that might explain it. Or am I thinking of Garry Tudeau?
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How about this....
http://www.silive.com/entertainment/recreation/index.ssf/2008/06/get_out_swingers_club.html
Particularly like the last line - "An over is completed after the bowler throws six fair balls". Clearly written by a Murali fan.
http://www.silive.com/entertainment/recreation/index.ssf/2008/06/get_out_swingers_club.html
Particularly like the last line - "An over is completed after the bowler throws six fair balls". Clearly written by a Murali fan.
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Bradman wrote:ever hopeful wrote:Once saw a Farside cartoon with someone getting in a mess putting glue onto a gate and saying something about a sticky wicket. Obviously Gary Larson, who draws the Farside cartoons, had no idea what a sticky wicket really is or where the reference comes from.
I think Gary Larson is Canadian so that might explain it. Or am I thinking of Garry Tudeau?
Pierre Tudeau?
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Gary 111 wrote:How about this....
http://www.silive.com/entertainment/recreation/index.ssf/2008/06/get_out_swingers_club.html
Particularly like the last line - "An over is completed after the bowler throws six fair balls". Clearly written by a Murali fan.
Blimey a Gazza post out of the blue. How do, chap?
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Not bad, JKL.
Back from the States now so this seemed an apt thread to post on.
Spent most of the year telling Americans how slow and boring baseball is compared to cricket.... but they never really seemed to understand.
Back from the States now so this seemed an apt thread to post on.
Spent most of the year telling Americans how slow and boring baseball is compared to cricket.... but they never really seemed to understand.
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Predictable reaction from a predictable nation...
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3 novels, not exclusively about cricket, in which a description of a cricket match occurs or plays an important part in the story:
Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers
A.G.McDonnell's England, Their England
L.P.Hartley's The Go-Between
Novels exclusively devoted to cricket:
Hugh de Selincourt's The Cricket Match
E.R. Dexter & C. Makins' Test Kill
Films including cricket matches:
The Browning Version(1951)
The Final Test(1953)
both directed by Anthony Asquith with a screenplay by Terence Rattigan (although The Browning Version was remade in 1994).
Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers
A.G.McDonnell's England, Their England
L.P.Hartley's The Go-Between
Novels exclusively devoted to cricket:
Hugh de Selincourt's The Cricket Match
E.R. Dexter & C. Makins' Test Kill
Films including cricket matches:
The Browning Version(1951)
The Final Test(1953)
both directed by Anthony Asquith with a screenplay by Terence Rattigan (although The Browning Version was remade in 1994).
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Tom Brown's Schooldays. Raffles. A couple of lenghty poems.
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