Wots Pogo, me duck? Only thing I associate with Pogo is Walt Kelly -- "We have
met the enemy, and he is us."
Robin (he of the exceedingly restricted range of interests) Hamilton, alias
Porky Pine
>
> On 24 March 2017 at 08:16 David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> I've just caught this conversation as my mobile suddenly told me I'd
> received a post from Robin Hamilton entitled 'Watching Test Cricket on an
> App'. As this turn of events seemed as unlikely as the Pope playing Pogo i
> had to to investigate.
>
> For myself, cricketers, like policemen, all look distressingly young these
> days. So I can't take the game with the solemnity of a Test match
> commentary of old. It was the long slow game of the Empire, on crackling
> radio, or written up by CLR James or Cardus. Samuel Becket once played
> first class cricket and is the only Nobel laureate to also appear in
> Wisden
> while Pinter was a keen club player.
>
> Long silences, and months on ships.
>
> On 23 March 2017 at 21:37, Robin Hamilton
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Oddly enough, earlier in the evening, mulling variants on the phrase(s),
> > "Whatever turns you on," and, "Different strokes for different folks," I
> > decided
> > that the Canadian version should be, "Whatever strikes your puck."
> >
> > Serendipity?
> >
> > Robin
> >
> > >
> > > On 23 March 2017 at 21:05 Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > It's a fair audience among the Test playing nations, Doug. We
> > cricket nuts
> > > value the esoteric jargon. I'm trying to cut you out! I look forward
> > to
> > > your paean to ice hockey.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 at 2:19 am, Douglas Barbour <
> > [log in to unmask]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > A lost sports poem, that’s fine, Bill, but although we get the
> > loss, &
> > > > the
> > > > pissed-offness, such as I have no idea what the rest of what you’re
> > > > talking
> > > > about is…
> > > >
> > > > Limited audience?
> > > >
> > > > Doug
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
>
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