20 20 Vision

Twenty twenty vision

It's a Dreadlock Holiday thing. I don't like cricket, I love it. That's five day tests, four day county matches, fifty over one day internationals, forty over and twenty over short forms of the game. But I'd like to shake the hand of the man who came up with T20.

Neither side exactly exploded into big-hitting mayhem last night. We felt we kept their big guns in reasonable check, and they bowled well and didn't give us too much to hit, so we had to push it into the right areas and run singles. Even so, they got to 122 in their twenty overs, and we scored over the hundred in ours. That's an evening's cricket, after work for almost everyone, forty overs and two hundred and twenty-odd runs, starting just after six and all over at about nine o'clock.

Bumble Lloyd loves T20 cricket, and he makes me laugh.

Shane Warne: Did you get up to anything exciting?

Bumble: Yeah. I went to LA.

Warne: LA?

Bumble: Yeah. Lower Acrington. I'm going to USA next week, though, for two or three days.

Warne: USA?

Bumble: That's Uther Side of Acrington.

Then so do Rich and AD.

Rich: Have we got a First Aid kit.

AD: (scratching his head) what's one of those?

Rich: It's like a box, with some first aid stuff in it. I need some tape for my finger.

AD: We've got a coffin.

What is the other side of Brighton?

Quite a lot, apparently.

I've just this minute copped a whole shedload of pedantic geography from BLISS and DLL.

My “the other side of Brighton” (note, not “just the other side of Brighton”) got me:

“Yeah, so's Portsmouth and Southampton” from BLISS, and:

“And Somerset” from DLL.

BLISS' guide to swearing, an addendum

Can I say 'addendum'? Thumbs up from the censor.

Another category of swearing, one that is largely in the acceptable and frequently comic category, is the hybrid and combination profanity.

The Great Escape

Dah-dah

Dah dah de-dah-dah

Dah dah, dah-dah dah-dah, da-dah-da, da-dah da-dah-da, dah da-dah-da-dah

Dah-dah, da-dah-dah, da-da

Hear that?

That's D the Dog's theme tune.

Both neighbours' gardens in two days. Naughty boy.