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Dominant Aussies close in on win

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/4564490.stm

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My apologies to the author. I know the article is in English because I can recognize most of the words and some of it even seems to have kind of a sentence structure. But I’ll be damned if I can make heads or tails out of what it means. Seems to have something to do with a sporting event where guys hit each other in the balls with bats and then throw up their “wickets.” Guy in the picture seems to have taken a particularly hard shot in the family jewels.

Damn peculiar if you ask me.
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why are his lips white? :-?
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wicket residue?
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Hey, didn't they also just take Schwarzenegger's name off a stadium?

Oh wait. You meant Australia.
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peteinmn wrote:wicket residue?
They must be like M&Ms, you know, melt in your mouth not in your hand...
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peteinmn wrote:I know the article is in English...
Well perhaps that's exactly why you can't understand it. :devil:
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FlyingC wrote:Oh wait. You meant Australia.
Someone told me that the big thing at the airport when they arrived in Austria was t-shirts with a silohoute of a Kangaroo with the usual red circle and line through it. Apparently Aussie tourists were not amused.

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Tyler Morris wrote:why are his lips white? :-?
That's zinc cream, Tyler. They play in the summer sun for about 6 hours five days in a row. The face it's on belongs to Andrew 'Roy' Symonds who is having a lot of success with bat and ball. He's just had success with the ball in the photo above.

I'm off to watch Australia polish off the last wicket.
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peteinmn wrote:I know the article is in English because I can recognize most of the words and some of it even seems to have kind of a sentence structure. But I’ll be damned if I can make heads or tails out of what it means.
Did you listen to the audio? Parts of that resemble English, too.
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Hi peteinmn,

Like most sport in Australia, Cricket is an excuse for grown Australian men to hug each other. In Australia men are usually not permitted within 3 feet of each other. It's also a convention where a location (sportsfield usually) where the laws of common assault are suspended.

As you can see in the picture the central character has been successfully kneed in the groin by the gent on the left. This is technically known as LBW i.e leg before whicket or; my little whistle has turned black :)

And Tyler, your lips would turn white too :o
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Mitch wrote:......
In Australia men are usually not permitted within 3 feet of each other. .......
Except

* in a pub
* at the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
* at the beach
* at the supermarket
* in a public toilet such as Central Station
* in a church, mosque, temple or synagogue
* at universities
* in a car repair workshop
* at a trade union meeting
* at a political party meeting
* in a sauna
* at workplace lunch break
* at a jam
* at a barbecue
* in a restaurant
* at the movies
* ad infinitum

Good God Mitch! You live in Sydney?
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talasiga wrote:
Mitch wrote:......
In Australia men are usually not permitted within 3 feet of each other. .......
Except

* in a pub
* at the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
* at the beach
* at the supermarket
* in a public toilet such as Central Station
* in a church, mosque, temple or synagogue
* at universities
* in a car repair workshop
* at a trade union meeting
* at a political party meeting
* in a sauna
* at workplace lunch break
* at a jam
* at a barbecue
* in a restaurant
* at the movies
* ad infinitum

Good God Mitch! You live in Sydney?

No expert in Australia here but from what I've read, Sydney is quite a place.
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Wombat wrote:
Tyler Morris wrote:why are his lips white? :-?
That's zinc cream, Tyler. They play in the summer sun for about 6 hours five days in a row.
Oh I see, to prevent sunburn... I thought it was something like you guys play crickett with a white chocolate ball or some such... :D or maybe cocaine?

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Flyingcursor wrote: No expert in Australia here but from what I've read, Sydney is quite a place.
It is actually a quieter place than what you have read. My generalisation about Sydneysiders and Australians in general is that they are vocally challenged when it comes to singing.

Nothing in the previous statement is meant to suggest that I am not Australian. However there is a difference between being one in General and one in Private.
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talasiga wrote:
... there is a difference between being one in General and one in Private.
You have a secret identity then? :D
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