Chosen Mysteries

[Lamplighter]

I did not known about that before !?

[ZenGum]

The interobang ... if that isn't a porno, it soon will be.

And that is another I'm not going to look up from work.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

why isn't there one of these things in our alphabetAttachment 36932 I bet I could use it.

You could use it here:

What is that some sort of new punctuation.

[jimhelm]

Yes, as far as i know, I just invented it. I had to use paint.net to make it, as i didn't find it anywhere....

it's for use just as you used it there.... except you should use another one at the end of that sentence.

[glatt]

Or maybe just a regular question mark at the end. The voice does rise a little at the end of the second half, so it does need something other than a period.

[Pete Zicato]

What? English isn't hard enough already, Jim?

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by glatt

You could use it here:

What is thatAttachment 36939 some sort of new punctuation.

I'm afraid it's an oxymoron.

... sort of like Chris Mathews on MSNBC:
Mathews asks his guests question, and then keeps on talking.
In more polite company, it would be a "?" and a "."
Or shorthand for: "Sit down and shut up while I answer your question"

[jimhelm]

say: What is that? Velvet?

that's _________^ where this thing should go. I need a name for it. nothing jumps out at me.

[Spexxvet]

Pausetion mark

[Spexxvet]

Interogawait

[jimhelm]

Comstion mark?

[Sundae]

Cricket.

I love its quitessentially English nature.
I like that it is mysterious and nonsensical and is played by real sportsmen who still stop to have tea. I love that it is played on my local park by the British born Asian boys in the same way lads used to have a kickabout (soccer) in mine.

But I cannot be arsed to learn the rules.

I would rather be baffled by someone's maiden over, the fact they are 57 for 7 and that they are bowling from the gasworks' end (I know what that means in slang though).
It's a mystery and I don't want to rob it of that.

[glatt]

Oh, yeah. I don't know the rules for receiving kicks in football. I was watching the Giant's game Sunday night and the kicks played such an important role in the game and I realized I had no clue. There seem to be at least half a dozen rules governing kicks and receiving them, but damned if I know them.

Sometimes you catch them and run and get tackled. Sometimes you catch them and don't run and you aren't tackled. Sometimes you let them bounce and run close to them with all your buddies surrounding them, but you don't touch them. Sometimes they go beyond the end zone and come up to the 20 after. What else? Oh, if they touch you, the other team can grab them, but not run with them. So freaking complicated. Obviously field position plays a huge role in all the variations. Maybe that's one that I will look up someday.

[Beest]

Originally Posted by Sundae

I love that it is played on my local park by the British born Asian boys in the same way lads used to have a kickabout (soccer) in mine.

We were once driving by one of the high schools and saw some kids playing cricket, they were Indians. As with soccer, just becasue we invented it doesn't mean we own it, the colonies are much more keen.

God's knows where they got the bats though..


Oh and Snookie, I know little enough to know that I don't want need or care to know more.

[ZenGum]

If you know of any Indians who are keen on Cricket, please send them to Adelaide immediately. India are 3-0 down in a four test series, Australia are batting first and are 383/3 (i.e. we are thrashing them) and India had gone to defensive strategies half-way through the first day of what should be a five day test match. They are playing with the expectation of losing.

The last two tests (can go for up to five days, two innings each) were both over in less than three, because India did so poorly Australia didn't even need to bat their second innings.