This coughing and spluttering
thing...
...guys, isn't it about time you sorted
it out? There's chemists shops full of little blue pills to make you
sleep, red pills to wake you back up again, and yellow ones to make
you happy. So why's there nothing to stop your nose, ears, and
everything in between filling up with, well, with whatever that stuff
is. That stuff that fills the wastepaper basket with tissues, to the
point where you start thinking that it has to just run out soon.
Nothing's in endless supply, is it? Wouldn't that contravene some
basic law of physics or all that's holly or something? Is the search
for dark matter operating in the wrong places looking in the vast
interstellar wastelands of space, when it should be poking around in
the human sinus?
A long wait and a high price
Sky are hard selling the Froch v Groves
fight. It's on pay per view live, at £14.95. The last pay per view
boxing I paid to view was Tyson v Holyfield, II, The Sound and the
Fury.
It was on at ungodly o'clock and
involved sitting up late and then sitting through a seemingly endless
undercard before the main attractions started a battle to see who to
be the most late out of their changing room and into the ring.
Eventually it kicked off, and lasted two-and-a-bit rounds before
Tyson bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear and that was that. At
today's prices, over £5 / round and then a disqualification followed
by endless replays and media furore. Too unpredictable to do the pay
per view thing, boxing.
The Ashes Diaries
Graham Swann on the Ashes Diaries he'll
be issuing:
“It's a good way of showing that
we're all human”
Pause.
“Not cricket-playing robots.”
Pause.
“Well. Apart from Finney,
obviously.”
They're never called robots,
anyway...
...bowlers that nag away, accurately
hitting the same good line and length are invariably referred to
“metronomic”.
Bats are either “ever-reliable” or
“run machines”.
It tend to be aerosol when bowling,
spraying it around indiscriminately, and unreliable, or injudicious,
or, well, just rubbish at batting. “Error-prone”, that's the
media phrase, “error-prone”.
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