Half an hour isn't enough. Next time, try it for half a day. Or more. &
don't worryabout what's happening. I think that only spoils it.
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On 24 March 2017 at 15:17, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It is good to hear from the Robin.
>
> And i’m not that interested in hockey, either, Bill; though I do know how
> it works.
>
> My one introduction to Cricket (aside from a movie or two) was the first
> time I visited England, & spent an interminable half hour or so watching a
> match on the TV, to what to a North American was a very strange silence,
> broken just once after about 25 minutes, with an, ‘ah, good one.’ I
> couldn’t figure out what was happening, & was, obviously, getting no help
> from the, um, commentator….
>
> Doug
> > On Mar 24, 2017, at 5:45 AM, David Bircumshaw <000005b0d06ee449-dmarc-
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > As in a Pogo stick me duck :)
> >
> > i.e playing on one
> >
> > On 24 March 2017 at 09:53, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]
> com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Joseph Bircumshaw
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
>
> and as you read
> the sea is turning its dark pages
> turning
> its dark pages.
>
> Denise Levertov
>
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