A cricket bat in a Danish nouveau-punk duo’s video

1. First four day Tests, then this.

   1. https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/a-spider-being-conspicuously-indifferent-to-cricket/2017/09/20/#comment-252973

      Excellent comment by Ged on the four-day Test malarkey a couple of posts back.

      1. https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/a-cricket-bat-in-a-danish-nouveau-punk-duos-video/2017/09/22/#comment-252986

         I particularly enjoyed this complimentary remark by Bail-out on the quality of Ged’s comment on the four-day Test malarkey. Top appealing, guys.

2. In other news, TRJ’s back! As in, he has a stress facture in his L5 vertebra, he’s not going to return to the Middlesex side at Taunton on Monday to try and secure his county’s mathematical safety and send Somerset into Division 2 or anything.

   1. I blame Sam.

3. Thanks for introducing me to PowerSolo, potty as parrots but terrific stuff.

   1. Glad you like.

      Personally I like this one best:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGJoNkOiI0

      I don’t think it will make you revise your assessment of PowerSolo’s pottiness-level.

   2. Pinball Geoff’s mob, the Bikini Beach Band, are fairly high up the potty scale too:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQuHXDSuEjY

      Enjoy.

      1. Yes, agreed. I forwarded your KC youtube video to Dom who has worked for me last couple of years. He has sloped off to Uni now. He described it as a Banging Tune so so you are obviously down with the youth, Ged.

   3. Is “potty as parrots” another saying?

      I can never work out whether you have an extraordinary talent for words and turns of phrase, or you are exposing us all to regional/historical expressions of which I was previously oblivious.

      1. Fair enough, Bail-Out, but excuse me if the following appear in future posts:

         Dim as a Toc H lamp
         Potty as a parrot
         He is a lifelong person
         Spanish archered
         Bums rush
         Fusterlarian
         Hard as bell metal
         Fling it over a rainbow
         I bet the cornflakes creep out of his bowl
         Fleet of shit boxes
         Back in the frozen to death
         More chance of rowing to the moon
         Two horns, strong smell of sulphur
         Face like a torn target
         Stony as Chesil Beach
         Rudderless tossycock
         Gusset in a bind
         Desperate prawn
         Gnaw your vitals
         An angel has peed in his beer
         If brains were dynamite he wouldn’t have enough to blow his hat off
         Riding on the back of a pig
         Mad as a hat full of pixies

         Commonplace? Or perhaps that’s why I’m Edwardian.

      2. That is brilliant.

         (I’ve always liked the Toc H lamp one, but never deployed it in real life because I worried whether anyone would understand me if I did. Or if they did understand me, they’d wonder why I understood it.)

4. Aargh, how did I miss this?

   Japan women beat South Korea women by 9 runs in the East Asia Cup.

   Japan 110/8 (Miho Kanno 22, Mai Yanagida 21, Mina Baek 4-0-9-2, Jiyeon Park 3-0-12-2)

   South Korea 101/8 (Jiyeon Park 27, Taerang Kim 21, Etsuko Kobayashi 4-0-24-4, Shizuka Miyaji 4-0-9-2)

5. Sadly no sixes in the South Korea match – I’d love to hear a commentator screech “maximum…Park hits the ball out of the park”.

   This might make the interweb explode, but here is a link to a little cross-reference with links piece I have written on Ogblog to celebrate the publication of this piece and the spidery one:

   http://ianlouisharris.com/2016/10/17/powersolo-cricket-bat-king-cricket-piece-17-october-2016/

6. Anderson was in the commentary box today and at one point he said, “I thought they bowled pretty well as a … on the whole.”

   1. Now there’s self-awareness/control. Good man, Jimmy.

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