You people bring out the worst in me. Maxine, for example, draws my attention to this. He's downright viral this Archer. This is, in fact, odd because his blog is ranked only 2.6 millionth in the world, well below my own obscure and cantankerous offering. He just doesn't post enough, I guess, but when he does.... Consider, for example, the lyrical This Week's News with which he left us prior to departing for Australia. It contains the disturbing report that one prize in a charity auction he is conducting out there consists of 'a box for every day of the Sydney Test.' He can't surely mean....
(For my American readers, 'a box' in cricket is, I believe, the same as 'a cup' in baseball. Or it used to be. I see now they are called Anatomic Abdominal Guards. When did that happen? When muffins became cakes probably.)
Sunday, November 26, 2006
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Yes,I can see the lucky winner sitting in his hospitality box overlooking the revamped SCG, holding the offending shell shaped device, asking the wine waiter 'Now where did Bryan say this thing had to go?'
ReplyDeleteNever myself having read a Jeffrey Archer book, this obsession you seem to have with the man makes me so damn curious as to find out what's so special. I heard Iain Dale the other night recommending the prison diaries but then I get to thinking that the novels would be a quicker read... Decisions, decisions...
ReplyDeleteDon't do it, David B!
ReplyDeleteYou are too funny. He did mean a box seat, did he not???
ReplyDeleteDavid B.'s comment is bringing something to my head. Did Jeffrey A. go to prison for libel or something? Or am I misremembering and libeling the poor man myself....
Perjury, in fact, Susan, a somewhat baroque tale which does not bear repeating. But Wikipedia tells all.
ReplyDeleteI like bringing out the worst in you Bryan - all your posts are stimulating to read, but the ones where you've had your worst bought out of you are the most stimulating!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, much appreciated. Long may you outrank Jeffrey A.