OT: Whoopee - we`ve won the Ashes!

Hooray! Jolly good show!

Pat in Illinois

My uncle will be unbearable! Bloody boring game.

Ok, I'll bite.... "the Ashes"??

Something football or cricket related? I barely follow several American sports (but an avid fan of others), so forgive my ignorance of the ones on your side of the pond!

Whatever it is, congrats! lol

Caryn

Used to like playing it, but boring to watch, I agree!

Pat P

The Ashes is a regular international cricket contest between England and Australia, played every two years, so named after the trophy, which is a small wooden urn, said to contain the burnt bails from an 1882 game between the countries at The Oval. The contest consists of a series of test matches, usually five. The custom arose when, after this game, The Sporting Times printed an "obituary" to English cricket.

Pat P

OK, thanks! I think I've heard it mentioned somewhere in the past. Cricket pretty much never makes the news here. I doubt you get much about our "national pasttime" of baseball over there, so I guess we're even! lol

Caryn (who learned most of what she knows about cricket from reading Dorothy Sayers' Peter Whimsey mysteries)

" snipped-for-privacy@aol.com" , in complete ignorance wrote::

..well said

..you need to get out more :->

Ever heard of Search Engines?

/me ducks for cover

..do not want the new suit dirtied up

jLb

/lurk

All I know about baseball is from "Field of Dreams!" - but we get quite a bit of American football - really late at night when only a real enthusiast will be watching! We don`t even watch ENGLISH football, although we like to watch Rugby. Show-jumping and three day eventing is my favourite. As I said elsewhere - anything with a horse involved is fine with me!

Pat P

Growing up I went to some local horse shows, girl who lived across the street did show jumping. They are so much better in person than on TV!

I know you guys now have the European Football League (or something like that) we get those games over the winter, somehow we seem to catch the Scottish Claymores most often.

I enjoy American football, where ever they play it, but loath baseball and basketball. Baseball bores me, and the sound of the squeaky sneakers on the wood floors in basketball drives me up the wall! LOL

I'm really hoping Hockey is good this year, after taking a year off for a lockout/strike (it all seems to depend on who you talk to which it was) I fear that the teams aren't going to be as together as they should be. Time will tell.

Caryn

This reminds me of a bit of trivia I picked up somewhere. The origin of the word "football" has nothing to do with a ball being kicked. It is a game with a ball being played "on foot" as opposed to being played "on horseback".

-- Jim Cripwell. A volante tribe of bards on earth are found,/ who, while the flattering zephyrs round them play,/ on "coignes of vantage" build their nests of clay;/ how quickly from that aery hold unbound,/ dust for oblivion!/ To the solid ground/ of nature trusts the mind that builds for aye. Wordsworth.

I'll be watching lots of hockey! DS has two+ games a week, DD has 1!

Ok, I'll be happy to _try_ to explain American baseball (Barry's back! Yay! Go Giants!) to anybody who in return can give me the slightest inkling as to how cricket is played. I once had a co-worker who was English and Israeli and adored cricket. She made quite an effort to explain the sport, but lost me on the running back and forth part and the tea breaks.

Lynda

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." ..................Paul Rodriguez..................................... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Middle dd came home from her 3 weeks in the UK a dedicated tea drinker. Milk, no sugar, English Breakfast Tea. Personally, I like Earl Grey with LOTS of honey!

Caryn

Ugh - now I know that Earl Grey is supposed to be the Queen`s favourite, but it`s far too "perfumed" (Bergamot) for me! English Breakfast, Ceylon, Kenya or Assam for me!

Pat P

I LOVE Assam, but it so hard to find out side the pricy mail order places!

Cheryl

Really? I`ll have to send you a care package! LOL!

Pat P