On Mike Hussey...

[GIMH]

Me and sledger got smackorthdoxed for less, but I LOVE these two, best double-act on CW (Y)

 

[Top_Cat]

I have a photo here of fredfertang and zaremba at work;

 

[zaremba]

Great picture! I promise you it wasn't posed.

 

[fredfertang]

Mr Zaremba !!! - The Roy Castle of the Inner Temple

 

[Prince EWS]

That's quite true - but I've always said that judging a batsman by how good his best innings' were is a very dangerous game.

Sinclair FTW.

 

[Richard]

Me and sledger got smackorthdoxed for less, but I LOVE these two, best double-act on CW (Y)

Hmm, TBF I've thought of saying "jeez, give it a rest you two" to them once before now. High-quality posters though the two of them definately are, and Spinksy\Jakester1288-esque though their exchanges aren't quite, stuff like the posts up to the end of page-2-of-40PPP is as off-topic as a poodle in a playground.

TBH, I feel they deserve a smackorthdoxing on this occasion, or a Gelmaning or Cribbageing (or, heaven forbid, a Towns-ing ) as the case may possibly be.

 

[zaremba]

Hmm, TBF I've thought of saying "jeez, give it a rest you two" to them once before now. High-quality posters though the two of them definately are, and Spinksy\Jakester1288-esque though their exchanges aren't quite, stuff like the posts up to the end of page-2-of-40PPP is as off-topic as a poodle in a playground.

TBH, I feel they deserve a smackorthdoxing on this occasion, or a Gelmaning or Cribbageing (or, heaven forbid, a Towns-ing ) as the case may possibly be.

Not sure I like the sound of this, whatever it may mean

 

[Prince EWS]

Hmm, TBF I've thought of saying "jeez, give it a rest you two" to them once before now. High-quality posters though the two of them definately are, and Spinksy\Jakester1288-esque though their exchanges aren't quite, stuff like the posts up to the end of page-2-of-40PPP is as off-topic as a poodle in a playground.

TBH, I feel they deserve a smackorthdoxing on this occasion, or a Gelmaning or Cribbageing (or, heaven forbid, a Towns-ing ) as the case may possibly be.

Have opted out of a Cribbageing on this particular ocassion, FTR.

 

[zaremba]

stuff like the posts up to the end of page-2-of-40PPP is as off-topic as a poodle in a playground.

Before I get sentenced to some weird cyber-sentence, can you tell me which thread my offending posts were in?

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

High-quality posters though the two of them definately are, and Spinksy\Jakester1288-esque though their exchanges aren't quite, stuff like the posts up to the end of page-2-of-40PPP is as off-topic as a poodle in a playground.

Hahaha. Sorry Richard, but I read that sentence about ten times and couldn't stop laughing. You'd give a linguistics professor a heart attack. I especially enjoy the phase "though their exchanges aren't quite".

 

[aussie]

I'm interested as to how you've seen him bat TBH as the only clip featuring him in that particular DVD series (and as far as I'm aware the only motion footage that exists of him with bat in hand) features some idiot messing around and rolling the ball on the ground.

Says a fair bit that he manages to make even a back-cut at a ball he never had any hope of hitting look pretty damn good mind.

haha, yea there is the same thing on another DVD series Cricket the Great Batsmen/Bowlers. Never seen or heard of any others though. But he looked pretty modern.

Am truly baffled as to how May is supposed to be better than Sutcliffe, BTW. Hobbs, Sutcliffe and Hutton may all have been openers but they're simply too good to leave-out, so you have to bat one of them at three (it's pretty immaterial which for mine - I tend to habitually go for Hutton as Hobbs-Sutcliffe is a pairing etched in my head irrevocably and I struggle to think of one without the other).

All are quite clearly superior batsmen to May, and I'd have little hesitation putting Compton above May either.

My selection of May @ 3 by no means a disrespect to Sutcliffe or a claim that he was a better batsman that Sutcliffe (although its debatable).

This is simply a personal preference since for me May "The beau ideal of English batsman ship and sportsmanship", an advanced version to Michael Vaughan at his best as advocated by my grandfather n popps who saw May bat. Such a player has to play for me.

Wouldn't pick Sutcliffe, dont want a stonewaller at the top of the order facing the wiles of Lillee, Marshall, Imran, Donald, Hadlee..

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

High-quality posters though the two of them definately are, and Spinksy\Jakester1288-esque though their exchanges aren't quite, stuff like the posts up to the end of page-2-of-40PPP is as off-topic as a poodle in a playground.

Hahaha. Sorry Richard, but I read that sentence about ten times and couldn't stop laughing. You'd give a linguistics professor a heart attack. I especially enjoy the phase "though their exchanges aren't quite".

 

[nightprowler10]

I especially enjoy the phase "though their exchanges aren't quite".

Makes perfect sense if you read the phrases right to left.

 

[Top_Cat]

Makes perfect sense if you read the phrases right to left.

Much like Chinese. Doesn't change the fact they're both different languages than the rest of the world is speaking.

 

[Richard]

High-quality posters though the two of them definately are, and Spinksy\Jakester1288-esque though their exchanges aren't quite, stuff like the posts up to the end of page-2-of-40PPP is as off-topic as a poodle in a playground.

Hahaha. Sorry Richard, but I read that sentence about ten times and couldn't stop laughing. You'd give a linguistics professor a heart attack. I especially enjoy the phase "though their exchanges aren't quite".

That you've never heard such linguistics used is odd TSTL.

 

[Richard]

Before I get sentenced to some weird cyber-sentence, can you tell me which thread my offending posts were in?

......... to ........ is the exchange I refer to, the latest. Well aware that neither of these are your posts, of course.

There's no sentence on anyone's way BTW, merely a "jeez give it a rest you two" from me.

I first had such a thought here BTW. Referring to this post and the next 6.

As I say - you two are certainly far from Spinksy\Jakester1288-esque, both in the sophistication and the tolerable regularity. But I've found myself having to skip past 3 or 4 posts (from the two of you) of times. This, of course, is no massive issue - I've told others they can and should do that with my posts rather than complaining about the fact I have two-man dialogues with so-and-so. But it does surprise me that Martyn is apparently so fond of such exchanges, and I do think it's a tadge unfair that he and sledger get told-off for similar exchanges.

 

[zaremba]

Hey ho.

 

[Richard]

I believe you missed an "e" there somewhere mygoodfellow.

 

[zaremba]

I believe you missed an "e" there somewhere mygoodfellow.

The thought crossed my mind!

 

[fredfertang]

Hmm, TBF I've thought of saying "jeez, give it a rest you two" to them once before now. High-quality posters though the two of them definately are, and Spinksy\Jakester1288-esque though their exchanges aren't quite, stuff like the posts up to the end of page-2-of-40PPP is as off-topic as a poodle in a playground.

TBH, I feel they deserve a smackorthdoxing on this occasion, or a Gelmaning or Cribbageing (or, heaven forbid, a Towns-ing ) as the case may possibly be.

Kneejerk reaction

"jeez that’s a bit rich coming from the bloke who drove that Ja/James/Jamie/Jimmy/Troughton nonsense over at least a dozen posts"

More measured Response

I knew a bloke at Uni who did sociology – couldn’t really see the point myself but I suppose he did get to spend nearly all of his final year doing a dissertation on the role of sport in society – it wasn’t a riveting read but when he asked me to I did him the courtesy of reading it before he submitted it - his conclusion was, surprise surprise, that sport, however hard fought, was the ultimate expression of friendship between the participants extending to it's partisan spectators - he then went on to discuss how the then epidemic of football hooliganism was not therefore related to the game itself and how it could be stopped – I remember telling him I thought his main proposal, all-seater stadia, was total b******* and that it would make the problem worse – I’m sure he’d be pleased to have a debrief with me now

Anyway the point I am laboriously coming to is that friendly banter is part of any game and cricket perhaps more than any other – I am not sure you fully appreciate that Richard as is evidenced by your expressed surprise when you were told recently that Mr Z and I were not being hostile in our exchanges over the Forums - alternatively we are simply on different wavelengths altogether – swapping a few pithy one liners with a “rival” supporter is, I am not ashamed to say, something that appeals to my sense of humour – I presume Mr Z’s as well and, it would seem, at least one of the more distinguished forum members as well.

I carefully read it’s rules when I joined CW and understand what flame wars and trolling are – none of the exchanges that Mr Z and I have had come remotely close to breaking those or any other rules so, although I wouldn't contemplate using it myself, if you don’t like it I presume your remedy lies in the use of the ignore list function?

Unanswered questions

Having got used to most of the acronyms now WTF are slamorthdoxing, Cribbageing, Gelmaning and Towns-ing (don’t mention the hyphen Mr Z!)