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Gents, this from the times: Driver caused fatal crash after using PlayStation in car http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1392554.ece Some driver who stopped to play a car racing game on his in-car Playstation proceeded to then speed on the wrong side side of the road round a blind...
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Spot the mistakes
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Is this the worst article about Slovenia ever written (it's from the Guardian in 2004 just before Slovenia joined the EU). How many errors can you find? Standing aloneSlovenia has not followed the usual patterns of development, but life can still be sweet in Ljubljana, reports Ben ArisBen Aris Wedn...
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Hvala lepa. Even though I can´t catch the damn ball I certainly appreciated the friendly reception and the free food and cold beer. If I return to Slovenia I will certainly look forward to improving my skills and drinking with everyone. Thanks!! Tomas www.headjammers.com
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Club Motto
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Seeing as it's the club's 10th anniversary this year and we still don't have a club motto, it would be an idea to come up with one. In Latin, nimirum.... Non vinco et crustum maxime To lose and (throw) cake exceedingly Crustum per allium, crustum per se He who (throws) cake for all, (throws) cake for hi...
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Etymology corner - the Valburga cricket ground
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Interestingly the burg in Valburga is nothing to do with burg/borough etc meaning a town but is taken from the name: (St) Walburga (also spelt Valburger, Valpurga, Waltpurge, etc.), a female English missionary (born in south-west England c. 710) to central Europe ... Now the place plays host Engli...
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SLO car registration numbers
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Am thinking about purchasing a motor in SLO. Wondering if our forum minds can think of a good personalised number plate worth having. Almost certainly won't get one, but if it's good.... Favourite from UK was "PEN 15" Bradders has also a great one, but for Postojna: "PO 0FTER" Y...
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Are the new pictures up yet?
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My Mozilla button leads directly to the forum and I can't be bothered to check the website - so have the pictures been posted? Administrator, can we make this a sticky stick. Professional translation tip: Always re-read your work if translating while TMS is on in the background. E.g. The Management B...
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Cricket newspaper headlines
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Having seen "Vaughan all at sea over Fredalo claims" I thought we should have a thread where we can post funny, weird or even made up newspaper headlines. The best, the worst, let's hear them.
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Vaughan quits as One day captain
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in a move that should certainly please Paichukka - Michael Vaughan has stood down as England's One Day Captain. Paul Collingwood is favourite to get the job or Kevin Pietersen. Any thoughts? I think Collingwood would be a good choice, but whoever gets the job has to be captaining the best team there is...
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Job Offer
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http://www.coe-recruitment.com/JobDetails.aspx?vacancyID=115
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LJCC Website - why aren't the new pictures up yet?
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Just to let you know that we are aware that we haven't uploaded the pictures from the Slovenian national championships yet. Sadly this is because we have managed to fill our quota of space on our host. We are changing this to a bigger and better host so we can get the photos and stories from Sunday (and som...
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England v West Indies
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The World Cup is over and Vaughan is injured again. Time to play name your England team. Mine would be Andrew Strauss (capt) Alastair Cook Ian Bell KP (subject to fitness) (Owais Shah standby or Bopara) Paul Collingwood Andrew "Pedalo" Flintoff Paul Nixon (has done enough to keep the glov...
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Slovenian National Championships
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4 teams. Quality beginners. Thanks Rob, Brad, Tom, Paul F, Manish, Borut, Egon, Robi J, Al. Brilliant cricket. I enoyed it massively. I saw 5 or 6 new players that will play for Slovenia if you guys keep up the hard work. Thanks for a great day. I took loads of pictures, which will be up by Monday. Sloveni...
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Spot the bluffer
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This is a fantastic little test: You have to spot the bluffer from two people talking about War & Peace. Not obvious at all! Answer not revealed till tomorrow (Friday). The voting so far is almost exactly neck and neck.
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Cliche Watch -- The World Cup
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An essential part of being a sportsman today is the ability to cut readymade phrases from the great big metatext in the sky and paste them in as soon as approached by a journalist. Busy Bollocks Nixon today: 'I think anything like this brings guys together. There's a lot of honesty and opennes...
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Random cricinfo scorecards
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There are hours of fun to be had randomly clicking on a year in the archive. So let's have your scorecards -- obscure matches, amazing matches, evocative ones. Extra points if a player has the same surname as a Ljubljana player past or present.
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Fabulous middle names of cricketers?
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Reading about Scotland vs Canada (who do you support there Angus?), I noticed that former West Indian player Anderson Cummins is now playing for Canada and to give his full name... Anderson Cleophas Cummins it reminded me that there have been some fanstastic middle names (especially in the West Ind...
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Six and out (the cricketing equivalent of jackets down) - ideas please
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This is where we build our own version of the game played in our youth(s). The rules, sorry, laws, will be drafted later. Let's have some ideas first. We're talking the cricket we played in the garden, the school yard, the street or the park. For instance, the law of "six and out" is essentia...
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The Knowledge
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It was good to see Al Jennings back in action in today's Guardian. Mr Jennings has been all too quiet recently...
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The next England coach
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Right, well when things are going so badly, all one can do is look to the future. Who is the man (and I think in all probability it will be a man) who can lead England to future glory? Assuming he will be taking over after England's early exit from the World Cup (!), he'll essentially have to achiev...
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Zimbabwe - Australian government steps in.
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I'm sure you've all seen the story. The Australian government have told the Australian Cricket Board that they don't want Australia to tour Zimbabwe. So should Governments have any say over sporting bodies. Hypothetically, the passports of the Australian side could be confiscated to prevent the...
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Live coverage
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Bangladesh vs India. 1st ODI. Is live now. http://livecricketonline.blogspot.com/ (MUST BE OPENED IN INTERNET EXPLORER) (If you don't have the Sopcast software it will tell you to download and install it, do so) the Sopcast link is the best picture and sound I have had ever with this. Could be an exc...
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World Cup results/reaction thread
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Well someone had to start this one sooner or later, so here it is. World Cup fever is almost upon us. Feel the heat, people. Feel it. Tomorrow sees the first day of the peculiar phenomenon they could have called the "spurious pretext for an extra week of gate receipts" but they didn't a...
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Who will score the next Ljubljana century?
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So far we have seen 2 centuries. Firstly from Mark and then a club record score by Steffen. Who do you think will be next? -- Edited by El Presidente at 09:53, 2006-12-20
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great first lines (songs)
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Shameless exploitation of your collective brain- I need a few more for something I'm doing with one of my classes. I'm after opening lines of the quality of: Well, my dinner's on fire while she watches TV, and if you ever wondered what it's like to be me... or Dynamite and nitroglycer...
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Players you hate (from your own country)
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Having watched Sth Africa beat England and seeing some of the venom spat in the direction of England by the English fans among us, I thought it would be interesting to learn of the players you just cannot abide. I hope Shane Watson injures himself again so he doesn't come back into our side as he is frankl...
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The retirement thread
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A lot of players and officials have called it stumps on their careers after this world cup, beginning with Nathan Astle back in December and going through to Brian Lara and Duncan Fletcher. Greg Chappell (india), Duncan Fletcher (Eng), Adrian Birrell (Ire), John Buchanan (Aus), Peter Cantrell (Ne...
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World Cup XI (so far)
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The inevitable name-your-XI-so-far thread. We can probably do a nightmare XI too, which ends up more popular, human nature being what it is... Mine: Hayden Jayasuriya Ponting (c) Styris Gibbs Boucher Vaas Flintoff Bond Muralitharan Tait Subtlety at the top, Ponting has actually captained well f...
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What's all this about then?
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I was just reading some comments on the BBC's forum 606 (warning - not too much intelligent or friendly debate on there most of the time) and I came across this thread which speculated on the make up of the next England test team. It seems Ljubljana's loss is England's gain in the 'keeper situation in thi...
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100th Thread and things 100
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To celebrate our 100th Thread, I give you 100 items of, like all general knowledge, useless general knowledge: Rats are smarter than dogs, can go longer without water than a camel, and when left alone (without the company of other rats) for long periods of time, will go insane. When domesticated, t...
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