Friday, August 28, 2009

Amusing Brits

D uring the Ashes series, I came across some real gems from the CricInfo commentary team. I wanted to share these classics for the sheer British sense of humour, have a read.

On day 1 of the final test, the commentary team announced the as follows.
If you have work to do, children to take to school, groceries to buy or a cat to kick, then you could swallow the loser's pill and do just that. Or, you could be one of life's winners: sack the wife, expel the husband, shoot the boss and eBay your children: this is where you should be for the next five days.

And followed that up on day 2 with
So, we're nearly ready. Put down the brown bag; empty the mind wok and stop your blue-sky thinking. It's Friday - you never work on a Friday - so sit back and refresh like the cricket-crazy thugs you all are.

Finally, the statistical nightmare that I was referring to in my earlier post is nicely captured in the article When the numbers didn't add up.

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