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Ljubljana's own Chris "Phantom" Bishop vs Bill "Slogger" Lawry. The nose, the mouth, the chin, the wispy hair, the forehead, the being a Victorian. However to be fair to our "Slog" no-one would ever call him "the corpse with pads" and I think it'...
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How will YOU be following the World Cup?
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From the TV in your living room, a TV in a pub, on the radio? Will it be text-based, with witty comments from the Guardian "team", or have you found a sketchy torrent operating out of Bangkok?
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lj facilities
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the german lads used to hamburg and the reeperbahn are wondering if there is an area of ill-repute in lj where roxanne might be able to turn on the red light. pls advise
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'Cricketers who have/used to have another profession' World Cup watch
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Charl Vangeveldt, prison warder Shane Bond, plod Dwayne Leverock, plod Your picks. Any more instances of cricketers working for the repressive apparatuses of the state particularly welcome.
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Commentators, pundits, writers you love and hate
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I've been reminded to start this thread by the oleaginous presence of Mark Nicholas in the commentary box. Is there a more annoying dip****? He sounds like a Premiership commentator, all portentous "I'll tell you what" Hampshire man yacht pub bollocks. I like Atherton, Holding, David L...
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Cricket break: the beautiful game
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It's easy this football lark, innit? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ortWLYEYnM *sorry, just popped in to make this links clickable. EL P -- Edited by El Presidente at 10:28, 2007-03-30
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Catchy titles for a book on the Slovenian dual.
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I've got this friend who's producing a book on one of the notable grammatical features of the Slovene language - the dual number. For those of you unaware of this (you've obviously not spent time in Slovenia where it is mentioned to foreigners twice a day), it is simply that as well as the familiar singu...
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Other really cool websites
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OK. You've found a great website and you want to share it with everyone. Here's the place to do it.
I'll start with this one the dialectizer
Choose your chosen dialect and read your favourite site in another dialect. ****ney and redneck were go...
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What you reading?
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With hideous inevitability, I can reveal that I've just finished Stanley Elkin- The Macguffin, am two-thirds through Truman Capote In Cold Blood, halfway through Joseph Roth- The Legend of the Holy Drinker (a very short read, but such a pleasure that I'm stringin...
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What kind of Avatar would suit the Muppet?
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It's been high tide now that the Muppet furnish his every boyhood's dream to get a little ICON-ting aka AVATAR.... Can we please have submissions - based on his posting - of an AVATAR you think would suit him (down to the ground)? how's about this for starters: -- Edited by Golcar CC at 15:0...
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Cricketers that look nothing like cricketers
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Following on from a pub-based discussion last Friday that swore blind that Liam Plunkett looked (and sounded) more like a Palace full-back than a cricketer, let's have your unlikely cricketer pictures. I'm sure paichukka can start a sub-thread about 'cricketers with Nationwide na...
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Will we see a record score at the World cup?
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The Chappell brothers Ian and Greg (amongst others) have raised the possibilty of a score of 500 being reached during the world cup. Small grounds, strong teams vs inexperienced "minnows" could lead to some very one-sided games, but does anyone think we'll see the current record of...
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Everybody speak about worl cup, i find a site where you can see summary of games: http://cricketvideosunplugged.blogspot.com/ maybe you know it. I do on my site a link to see interviews: cilck on Coupe du Monde reportage -World Cup interviews on the home page It's really great to see professio...
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Songs about/that make reference to cricket
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Getting the risible 'Dreadlock Holiday' by 10cc out of the way (played incidentally at the Roots In Session party at Metelkova last week on the understanding that it is reggae)...
'Inca Rag/Name Game' by Fiery Furnaces -- "Let’s play bacci and horseshoes and croquet/But no not cricket...
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Why is racism wrong?
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Given the Sky News/tabloid uproar about "racism on Celebrity Big Brother and cricket's Herschell Gibbs incident, I thought it might actually be w...
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The Next Associates
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I think it's brilliant to see Scotland, Canada, Ireland, Bermuda, Netherlands, etc in the World Cup. When it was just 12 teams, it was hard to call it a World Cup. It can only help develop the game. Who do you think the next Associates coming through will be? Denmark would have made the 1979 World Cu...
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"Scotland Hope for Australia Upset" - BBC Online
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I am new and french
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Hi every body, i come only to try this forum, with the advice of Btad. I'm an new and ld cricketer : new because i 'm plyaing only from 6 years, and old because i'm 43 (since 2 days). So i can speak a lot of thinck , but for the moment i'll like to know that you think about my web site: http://ww...
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Thanks for your Welcome
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What can i say about french cricket and my club? In France there Barcly's ligue, and régionals cup. There no reportages on the cricket, and the only way to watch cricket is on private channel. My club Cricket Club des Ormes ( just between Rennes and St Malo), is in a private owner, just behind the cas...
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Australia's greatest one day side ever?
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In a poll held in Australia, this team was voted Australia's greatest ODI team: A Gilchrist 256 matches, 8,561 runs, 376 catches, 37 stumpings M Waugh 244 matches, 8,500 runs, 85 wickets R Ponting 268 matches, 9,741 runs, 3 wickets D Jones 164 matches, 6,068 runs, 3 wickets S Waugh (capt) 325 matc...
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Is anybody out there?
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One post in 24 hours! As dead as a Ljubljana pub on a Saturday afternoon. I know. Doing stuff in "real life" and all that. But real life's very overrated, and so September the 10th. 
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Who are you turning into?
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Sat at my desk a few minutes ago, with a mingled sense of dread and bewilderment, it dawned on me that I'm turning into Alan Carter. Alan Carter was a bloke I used to work with, late 30s, nice chap, liked to "tinker with his consciousness" (his words), cracker of a Judy in tow, perpetually...
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x and the ys
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Inspired by El Presidente's mention of Marc & The Mambas, your favourite band name in the x and the ys form here please. Zerben R Hicks and the Dynamics Johnny and the Moondogs...
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Pick the winner of the World Cup
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Now that the last series before the World Cup has finished (discounting next week's minnows' triangular), maybe it's time for each of us to stick our necks out and make a prediction for the World Cup winners. So who's going to be hoisting the trophy in Barbados on April 28th? Current...
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Latest Results Thread
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A weakened Australia get absolutely slaughtered in the first match for the Chappell-Hadlee trophy. Oz 148 ao NZ 149-0 in about 26 overs. Anyone find a picture of the Chappell trophy - I could only find this one ...
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Who is the biggest pie chucker in world cricket?
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Inspired by Paichukka's avatar I wonder who our forum readers rate as the biggest lobber of pastry in world cricket at the moment. Mick Lewis of Victoria and Australia deserves a mention for his for 113 in his last appearance for Australia vs Sth Africa and I have to say that I reckon I might smite a...
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TV & cinema about/that references cricket
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I thought it might be time to launch a companion to the cricket music thread after a discussion last night in a restaurant (called Argentino) where cricket on TV was mentioned by a Slovene relative. He said he'd seen some cricket on TV in a British detective drama. After going through the usual sus...
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Reasons why the Cricket World Cup is better than the Football World Cup
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I thought I'd start to compile a list of reasons why the forthcoming Cricket World Cup is far superior to its footballing equivalent. I do reckon it shouldn't be too difficult. After all, unless you're Italian, last year's fußball tournament was pretty dismal, at least once the...
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Test your Freddie knowledge
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If you're bored on a Friday afternoon, try this Flintoff test which consists of all the questions that some kid answered correctly on Junior Mastermind. I got 12 out of 19, without cheating or using any references...
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Good bars, restaurants and nightclubs in Ljubljana
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Myself, Golcar CC and Club Dogsbody were talking last night in Sir Williams pub and thought it would be a good idea to have a thread where you can champion your current favourites in bars, restaurants and nightclubs.... so here it is. Incidentally Sir Williams itself doesn't do a bad pint of somet...
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