[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

John

No cricket commentary can shock more than the classic:

"The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willie."

But your example was cute.

Duncan

[John Whitworth]

Willey, my dear chap, Willey. Can you forget the following entry in the scorebook:

Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley

That might have been the match that Botham overbalanced playing an aggressive stroke, tried to hop over the stumps and failed, thus knocking them over and getting himself out. 'He should have got his leg over,' muttered the commentator Jonathan Agnew, causing the other commentator, the peerless Brian Johnson, to have a five minute giggling fit that is now a classic of cricket.

[Duncan Gillies MacLaurin]

Wrong thread! Sorry!

Duncan

[Marion Shore]

Do you all think the three stanza limerick form invented by Frank, and so brilliantly used by Frank and myself, would be acceptable to the Oldie? Pity not to be able to submit these gems.

[R. S. Gwynn]

I am a stool. I have three legs.
It's sadly true that I don't know more.
My legs are 1/4 of a dozen eggs.
I wish that I could count past four.

It's sadly true that I don't have more
Legs than a common milking stool.
My parents, those rural folk, were poor.
At times I feel like a proper fool.

No legs like a common milking stool?
How many legs should a stool possess?
At times I feel like a proper fool
But I stand on three legs and query, "Yes,

How many legs should a stool possess?"
I wish that I could count past four,
Though I feel at times like a proper fool.
It's sadly true. I don't know more.

[Terese Coe]

Lillee caught Willey bowled Dilley

That might have been the match that Botham overbalanced playing an aggressive stroke, tried to hop over the stumps and failed, thus knocking them over and getting himself out. 'He should have got his leg over,' muttered the commentator Jonathan Agnew, causing the other commentator, the peerless Brian Johnson, to have a five minute giggling fit that is now a classic of cricket.



Now there's a perfect example of dense Brit humor, John! [I don't mean "dense Brit" but Brit dense humor, you know?] I mean it's easy enough to get the general drift, but a giggling fit at "getting a leg over"? Are you sure it wasn't getting a leg up? Or maybe it was "hop over the stumps" that brought it all on...? Yes, must have been "hop over the stumps"!

[John Whitworth]

Ah, 'getting your leg over' is rude brit for... well I don't know what you Americans say. The point is that it's TOO rude for commentators to mention on nationwide family sports programme. Other rude brit for same thing 'getting your end away', 'getting your oats', 'dipping your wick'... What DO you Americans say?

And Botham was rather well known for these things.

[R. S. Gwynn]

Ah, 'getting your leg over' is rude brit for... well I don't know what you Americans say. The point is that it's TOO rude for commentators to mention on nationwide family sports programme. Other rude brit for same thing 'getting your end away', 'getting your oats', 'dipping your wick'... What DO you Americans say?

And Botham was rather well known for these things.


Struck out.
Went down swinging.
Was fanned.
Whiffed 'im.
Took a looker.
Etc.

Got some.
Nookied.
Scored.
Home run.
Made it.
Etc.

[Terese Coe]

Thanks, Sam!

John, those are two different lists for two different meanings.