Movember is here!!!
 

No need for the ladies to participate.

Movember

On an almost un-related subject, I want my talking Boonie!!!

Trouble is, I have to buy VB to get him...

I can't wait for the Ashes to start so we can slaughter the pommies! :D

Glad to see that oblique cultural advertising initiatives are just as bizarre down under as they are here.

Is the National Depression Initiative promoting or trying to get rid of depression? I can't really tell from the splash page ad, there.

Ebay baby, ebay.

I bought one for our apprentice mechanic for $20-ish.

Elspode...it's for getting rid of it or treating it. Whichever way you want to look at it. Check out the beyondblue website.

Cool, I never thought of Ebay for a Boonie! OMG the crap some folks sell (and buy)!!!!

What the hell is a boonie? :question:

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Australian Cricketing hero and cultural Icon. You get him by buying beer!
He talks when you place him on the TV during the Ashes Test coverage.

David Boon is an Australian Cricketing Icon. He has the big handle bar moustache, beer gut and he's huge. He's a funny bugger and last year they bought out a *talking boonie doll*. He sits on your coffee table and (im not sure of the technology and I'm too lazy to look it up) makes comments before, during and after the game.

Like he says, "Crickets starting in 30 minutes"..."get me a beer" etc etc

He was very popular!!

omg

I read a couple of blogs there... that boonie insanity sounds like fun! anybody here have one?

Alright. It is high time, and now I have a chance. Right here, RFN...*someone*, in two brief paragraphs or less, PLEASE explain cricket to me? I'd like to be able to understand, if not actually enjoy, this game the next time I stumble upon it on cable.

Some people dress posh, others dress preppie. The preppie ones play some sort of ball game involving paddles and wickets, and the posh ones socialize.

Two Teams, *bat* is tossed to see who bats v's who fields. Batting team has 2 batters out on the *pitch* at a time. You have spin bowlers (slow) and fast bowlers (obvious). To get a batter out (who is facing the ball) you must
a) bowl them out - this can be done by hitting the *stumps/wicket* (sticks at each end of the pitch) as the ball is bowled at the batter.
b) field them out - caught ball (can be caught off the batters pads as well as in field)
c) run them out - if a batter doesnt make it over the white lines and the ball strikes the wickets
d) LBW - Leg Before Wicket...this is where you will see/hear everyone jump around and go "HOWZZZZAAATT!!!!". This is where the batter puts himself in front of the wicket, protecting it as such, from getting bowled.

Scored - runs are 1, 4's (when the ball hits the fence/rope) or 6's (over the fence).

Someone else will have to explain the One Dayer v's Several Dayer.

I know you have to chase the other teams score and have *wickets* (batters not out) in hand at the end of a One Dayer.

Ummm - you will have to ask if you want to know anything else, I'm way past my 2 paragraphs.