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Chuck writes…
I recently attended a non-cricket match – actually a Pixies concert – in the Simmonscourt Arena in the RDS, Dublin.
At the bar before the concert – yes, dear reader, I drink – I discovered a pale, somewhat commercial, and rather flimsy looking imitation of The Device).
These were being handed out free to punters, but nobody was using them.
“These are Pixies fans, not cricket lovers,” I thought to myself, “so how would they possibly know?”
My daughter, who was accompanying me to the concert, asked why I was photographing this travesty (or “that piece of cardboard”, as she called it).
As she has not (as yet) been initiated in the ways and lore of cricket, I instead distracted her by saying, “Let’s go look at the merchandise!”
Needless to say, I didn’t use the ‘thing’ pictured. I can only assume that the Pixies were unaware too.
