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 <[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]>
> 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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