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Post by tiptoes on Oct 16, 2020 19:29:28 GMT
When I took a 6 month sabbatical to Australia 15 years ago I read the hyperbolic musings of the travel writer's journies in Australia in a book called Down Under and his typical American disparaging of cricket from a bloke who supposedly appreciates English culture. Does anyone else find this parody remotely funny? pnewman.com/dotorg/articles/cricket.htmIs John Paul Getty the only Yank who realised the superiority of cricket over baseball and became a benevolent donor to the game? |
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Post by tiptoes on Jan 9, 2021 21:42:00 GMT
When I took a 6 month sabbatical to Australia 15 years ago I read the hyperbolic musings of the travel writer's journies in Australia in a book called Down Under and his typical American disparaging of cricket from a bloke who supposedly appreciates English culture. Does anyone else find this parody remotely funny? pnewman.com/dotorg/articles/cricket.htmIs John Paul Getty the only Yank who realised the superiority of cricket over baseball and became a benevolent donor to the game? In answer to my last question I forgot Sir Allen Stanford, serving a 110 year jail term in some US hellhole. |
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Post by philh on Jan 14, 2021 10:48:55 GMT
When I took a 6 month sabbatical to Australia 15 years ago I read the hyperbolic musings of the travel writer's journies in Australia in a book called Down Under and his typical American disparaging of cricket from a bloke who supposedly appreciates English culture. Does anyone else find this parody remotely funny? pnewman.com/dotorg/articles/cricket.htmIs John Paul Getty the only Yank who realised the superiority of cricket over baseball and became a benevolent donor to the game? I must have missed this post back in October. I find Bill Bryson entertaining to read. I don't have a problem with his parody of cricket. If you can't laugh at yourself and all that. Maybe, you should write a parody of a baseball game. No one will mind. |
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Post by tiptoes on Jan 14, 2021 11:52:52 GMT
When I took a 6 month sabbatical to Australia 15 years ago I read the hyperbolic musings of the travel writer's journies in Australia in a book called Down Under and his typical American disparaging of cricket from a bloke who supposedly appreciates English culture. Does anyone else find this parody remotely funny? pnewman.com/dotorg/articles/cricket.htmIs John Paul Getty the only Yank who realised the superiority of cricket over baseball and became a benevolent donor to the game? I must have missed this post back in October. I find Bill Bryson entertaining to read. I don't have a problem with his parody of cricket. If you can't laugh at yourself and all that. Maybe, you should write a parody of a baseball game. No one will mind. You seem a serious type, you could have written "I like BB's books and thought his parody of cricket was witty, but each to their own." Humour is always subjective. The former Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, said he found Life of Brian hilarious but I'm guessing he understood that some Christians would have found it offensive. I probably should be more self deprecating but you give me the opportunity to regale you with an anecdote. When I was a student at UEA, it was in my first couple of weeks when I couldn't make head nor tail of this Philosophy Lecture, even after reading the book chapter to which the Lecturer referred. Fortunately there was a voluntary remedial class for those students who wanted further discussion and clarification. After the Lecturer took a few questions I stuck my hand up to state I couldn't follow the logic of something he'd said in his original lesson. He said "have you got your book so I can explain" and when I said I hadn't he replied "share your neighbour's" and then elucidated. He then said, "does that clarify it for you?" I could have said "yes" which it did, but said something along the lines "I think so, the problem was I had been reading from a different page 7 from a different book." There was a split second pause before the whole room exploded in hysterics for 5 minutes with people thinking how on earth did this bloke get through the university gate? Probably doesn't read funny in print but at the time it gave everyone a laugh. |
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Post by kevininnessupersub on Jan 14, 2021 12:15:20 GMT
Thanks, needed a good laugh on this drab day.
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Post by philh on Jan 14, 2021 13:31:19 GMT
I must have missed this post back in October. I find Bill Bryson entertaining to read. I don't have a problem with his parody of cricket. If you can't laugh at yourself and all that. Maybe, you should write a parody of a baseball game. No one will mind. You seem a serious type, you could have written "I like BB's books and thought his parody of cricket was witty, but each to their own." Never been called serious before, but I won't let it get me down. If anything, my humour is quite off the wall, although I quite like a well-crafted pun now and again. However, to fit in with my new serious image, I think I should make a more considered comment about Mr Bryson's parody of cricket. On reflection, I would say: "I like BB's books and thought his parody of cricket was witty, but each to their own"  (definitely needs a smiley face at the end) |
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Post by tiptoes on Jan 14, 2021 13:35:37 GMT
Thanks, needed a good laugh on this drab day. At least the Test cricket should have cheered your day. SL do seem to be particularly weak at the moment. Even WI are quite strong at home. |
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(definitely needs a smiley face at the end)