Re: Re: IZ's Eng holding Ashes for 16 months in the last 20 yrs

by spangler Fri 11 Sep 2009, 13:47

I like Clobberknock.

s'better.

by Brass Monkey Fri 11 Sep 2009, 13:49

Well, s'good but not interchangable with mollywhop.

by Zat Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:01

Or doodlewhizz

by Bradman Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:07

Just heard a really funny joke on 'Good News Week". Probably qualifies for a telegram from the Queen, but......

"We might have lost the Ashes but you lost an Empire".

by Zat Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:09

Saw that too. Funny shiot./

by ten years after Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:13

Bradman wrote:Just heard a really funny joke on 'Good News Week". Probably qualifies for a telegram from the Queen, but......

"We might have lost the Ashes but you lost an Empire".

Not recently though.

by Zat Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:14

Recent in terms of global history.

by ten years after Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:18

Indeed.

Anyway, losing an empire is rather careless. If they want it back they can come and ask me. I know where it is.

by Guest Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:20

At least we had an empire.

by ten years after Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:27

Australia had Christmas Island, Papua New Guinea and most of Antarctica.

by Bradman Mon 14 Sep 2009, 12:29

I think we've still got them.

by ten years after Mon 14 Sep 2009, 13:31

The Australian portion of Antarctica is actually bigger than Australia. Lots of space, lots of water and lots of resources. Must be ripe for development.

by JKLever Mon 14 Sep 2009, 13:49

ten years after wrote:Indeed.

Anyway, losing an empire is rather careless. If they want it back they can come and ask me. I know where it is.

We didn't lose it. We 'gave it away' Wink

And the sun still never sets on it funnily enough.

by PeterCS Mon 14 Sep 2009, 15:27

Funny enough, but not as funny as Clough.

by ever hopeful Mon 14 Sep 2009, 20:10

We only had an empire in the first place so we could teach some other nations how to play cricket to give us some competition. Once we'd done that we didn't really need it anymore, so we gave it back.

Of course that might be a slight over-simplification.

By the way, Bradman, you said you'd heard a funny joke but then you never told us what it was.

by Zat Mon 14 Sep 2009, 23:43

ten years after wrote:The Australian portion of Antarctica is actually bigger than Australia. Lots of space, lots of water and lots of resources. Must be ripe for development.

We'll all be relocated there when global warming really kicks in.

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