Sniffle XVII
MilBlogs - Don’t Get Stuck on Stupid
I swear to god I’m moving to Australia if politics here continues the way they are. Hell, I’ll move to East Timor if the Aussies are still around.
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May 30th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
Let’s hope they do; we need more redheads.
Thomas Sowell was quite specific: “Nightmare scenario for the 2008 election: John McCain versus Hillary Clinton. I wouldn’t know whether to vote Libertarian or move to Australia”.
See, great minds etc.
May 30th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Everyone needs more redheads. It’s a universal complaint.
So, do fellow Commonwealth members get free entrance? I’m awfully nice and I won’t beat up any of your news camera men.
May 31st, 2006 at 2:07 am
You’ve already got Nicole Kidman - how many redheads do you need in Australia?
May 31st, 2006 at 2:33 am
And you probably don’t know about her younger sister Antonia? and there is another one, Kara or Tara or something like that - does radio, typically introduced as the forgotten Kidman?
Commonwealth country members used to have to pay the grand total of 5 pounds to immigrate to Australia, and would get free passage. You need to get that time machine going.
May 31st, 2006 at 4:19 am
Just like Mark “Afghan” was the forgotten Waugh when compared with his brother, “Tugger”?
If she looks at all like Nicole she’s wasted on radio.
May 31st, 2006 at 6:09 am
Close. It was Mark “Afghanistan” - the forgotten Waugh. One of the most graceful players (and not just when batting) of recent times. Never seemed to lose his balance, no matter what. Gower was similar.
May 31st, 2006 at 7:15 am
Only Gower had the left-hander’s classic waft outside off stump and when you needed him to score runs his languid grace was so very very pleasant except that it meant he always gave the bowler a chance which was so annoying. Afghanistan was a wonderful slip, very economical of movement, head still, soft hands. Up there with Bobby Simpson and Phil Sharpe in terms of the best I’ve seen.
Talking of left-handers, Darren Lehmann’s just got himself run out for 37. The way he’s been batting, the only way you’ll get him for less than a ton is if he runs himself out. A leftie who’s never given a bowler a chance. What’s the nickname - “crow-eater”?
I hope ninme’s not offended at all the cricket chat. She wouldn’t be, would she?
May 31st, 2006 at 9:04 am
You know we were talking about redheads and you guys somehow got on cricket. Sheesh.
Oh I don’t think I ever had an opening to say but my Telegraph podcasts got on the subject of cricket, and the editor and Celia (who does Spy) got stuck into how nice it is for a couple days. Guy, the editor, asked her if she’s a cricket fan, and she said no not really she doesn’t know anything about it but that she finds it terribly relaxing, and Guy said yes the noises it makes and sitting there in the sun with a picnic and she agreed and made some comment about the green and the white and I think at that point I threw a wooden spoon at the speaker.
So great, you named all of five redheads. Proves my point.
I’ve seen Nicole’s little sister, but just once. A photo of them together on the ABC’s gossip page, I think. She looked more brown than red.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:30 am
Er, ahem, the Waugh brothers got a mention because one of them was as forgotten as was Nicole’s sister. Neither of them is a redhead. So I reckon the Australian government’s redhead resettlement programme’ll still be going strong.
Cricket and lunch go together very well as long as you pace yourself and don’t let rip with the drink. Aussies are famed for their barbeques at the cricket, the English tend to favour cold cuts, preferably with a strong mustard.
It’s not every blog that gets both Nicole Kidman and Phil Sharpe on the same thread, you know.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:38 am
Its a testament to your …renaissancenessitythingie damn that kind of fell apart.
May 31st, 2006 at 9:48 am
Why thank you!
May 31st, 2006 at 4:31 pm
How long does a match tend to last?
May 31st, 2006 at 4:54 pm
Days!
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:10 am
The match between England and Sri Lanka is scheduled to last for 5 days, with 3 two-hour sessions of play each day punctuated by 40 minutes for lunch and 20 minutes for tea. There’s no guarantee the match will end in a positive result either way.
June 2nd, 2006 at 5:50 am
A 40 minute lunch seems a bit hurried. Maybe Outdoor Life will carry a little of it. They do the Tour de France, and the Gyro and the Americas Cup…. so maybe they can popularize another sport here.
I used to laugh at bike racing until I watched an early flat stage of the tour about 5 years ago that ran through the Mons Cemetary. I was hooked by the helicopter shots. I TiVo the whole damn thing now…. getting ready again.
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:42 am
Five days of picnics… Can there be any better spectator sport?!
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:49 am
And there are bits of the ground where people have to dress properly as well!
June 2nd, 2006 at 10:16 am
Ooh picnics AND dress-up!??!?
It’s a little girl’s dream!