UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

"I Set Myself On Fire" - XTC. Quick, before this turns into an ILM list thread!

Playing With Fire, yet again.

I asked my other half what Nigel Havers was like last night, cos I was sure she had worked with him. Perplexed denials revealed that I was thinking of Nigel Hawthorne instead. I am an idiot. I do know someone who played Cricket against him though. At one point my friend was being bowled to by NH while David Essex kept wicket!

And what "maiden" wouldn't like to be "bowled over" by that pair?!?!?

::insert smutty joke about being bowled to by NH::

ha-HEM.

Maybe I should start playing the Oud.

x-post ha!

Cricket is full of potential double entendres

Electronic Oud Tutor!

http://www.pro.com.eg/oudtutor/images/agam-Bb.jpg

Though there's a story in this book about Sonic Boom playing Saz on Perfect Prescription, maybe I should get one of those.

(I am pathetic, yes.)

Dr. C, can yr friend provide pics of NH in cricket gear? I will not die happy until I have such a thing.

"Sun" burned hand of the Smoker!

OK, I got there, will stop now.

Danny and I are still trying to figure out what, exactly, a Disco Bowl (as in the Lionheart Bros song) is.

Sorry, that was rather random, I was just thinking about NH bowling, and that lead to disco bowling. And what it could possibly be.

Lots of bouncers, of course.... thangyewverymuchladeezandgennulmen

50 souls, 50 souls and a disco bowl...

You don't need 50 souls for a cricket team. Unless he's actually saying 50 soles, which would be 25 people. How many people on a cricket team anyway? I've no idea.

11 + The 12th Man

Even with two teams for a match, that's still too many Norwegians.

Anyway, Norwegians don't play cricket, do they? They probably play some strange game involving whale bones and brown cheese.

Nope, cross country skiing is the country's national sport. I could be down with that.

I'm sure I remember hearing something on *TMS about cricket being played on ice.

(*TMS = Test Match Special, I'd be amazed if NH has never appeard on this as one of **Aggers' guest on "View From the Boundary")

(**Jonathan Agnew)

Seek and ye shall find

This is the problem with sport (especially cricket) - there is simply just too much to learn about it. I will never understand. It's like trying to convert to Catholicism after a lifetime of Atheism. I just don't get it. Even if I master the basics, there's just too much obfuscating... stuff that goes along with it.

Dr. C, can yr friend provide pics of NH in cricket gear?

Very unlikely, but I could ask.

No, no, not if it's any trouble. I'm just being prurient again.

Just reading one website about the basic rules of cricket is already making my head spin. I need an annotated one.

Basic rule of watching Cricket:

If someone in white does something drink a pimm's (down south) or a pint of bitter (up north).

Not rules, LAWS!

What I really need is a site that has all the terminology in the rules hyperlinked into little explanatory popups.

I'm useless at watching sport. An ex boyfriend once tried to make me watch a f**tb*ll match. I observed closely, and figured out that every time one of the little men got the little spotted ball in a net, you were supposed to jump up, spill beer everywhere and shout "HOORAY!"

So I did this, the next time the little spotted ball went in the net and found everyone glaring at me. Then-BF shouted at me that I had just cheered on the Germans. Um, whatever.

Oh no, I just talked about f**tb*ll. I'll have to ban myself!

To placate myself, and avoid having to be banned, here is a picture of NH in a top hat:

http://www.moviemarket.co.uk/library/photos/179/179659.jpg

By the way, my brother's got an album out, this is the band:

http://www.abelganz.com

4 tracks! Shortest 13 minutes! Longest 23 and a half minutes! Can you guess what kind of music they play?!?!? I've never heard them but I'm badgering him to send me a copy...

Holy crap, Tom. I'm pretty sure I have their first album stashed somewhere. IT's neo-prog, pretty decent as I remember (you'd hate it, har, har) I think the singer is also in Pallas?

Gratuitous Flash? I've got that!

Singer from Pallas sings on one track on the new album. My brother only joined to help out 'cos they were taking years to finish the album - and I mean years! Only two guys left from the orig. band + I'm pretty sure my brother+guitarist+drummer are all far better players than anyone who's ever been in the band before!

Gratuitous Flash and the Fulminating Five?

Quite possibly! I don't recall there being too many really good players in neo-prog bands except maybe the bassist from marillion or the old keyboard player from IQ. The album I had had a couple of good tunes on it, but the recording quality wasn't so great.

SO HUNGRY.

Norwegians don't play much of the cricket, no. Well, up until about now anyway, I believe some cricketing is going on amongst youth of Pakistani parentage etc.

Hi Kate & Cooler! Long time since last time, I think I've been out of the loop since last year or something. Blimey, Ed's been in Oslo eating brunost!

Drammen, actually, which isn't nearly as exciting as Oslo.

But it's the home of Stromgodset

... sorry f**ball

Hello! Welcome back to the loop.

Thanks!

Haw, Drammen. There's a Norwegian saying going "Bedre med en dram i timen enn en time i Drammen", ie "Rather a dram* per hour than an hour in Drammen".

*) as in small, strong drink

... same in English

Even the local beer is Aass.

I think I'd be quite happy with a dram per hour! My gran swore by a wee dram.

Aass is pretty well-regarded elsewhere in the country too actually, with "Friends of Drammen Beer" societies etc.

Is it pronounced like "arse"? God, I want to go to Norway even more, if I can walk in a pub and ask for a "pint of arse, please!"

No it is pronounced like AWES!

Aassome

Damn, you ruined my fun.

But, anyway, my fun has been ruined, since apprently the gossip from the tour is that these Lionhearts are nice, very religious boys from Trondheim and go home to pray instead of committing acts of naughtiness. Very disappointed with this. Although I could take one home to meet my mum and she'd be happy about that!

I'm a happy girl, though, coz I get to have Messican for lunch.

Aassome.

I am now full of lovely tasty Messican food, and I has an autoharp tuning key!

(Though I had to take Emsk with me to stop the lovely shopfolk from making me try out and/or buy every instrument in the shop.)

They had a lovely oud in the window, but she wouldn't even let me look at it!

The Bowlers Holding, The batsmans Willey

Classic quote there.

Ed, im afraid the Chambers Brothers album isnt much cop, neither is the live album I have. Time Will Come Today really is the stand out song.

Oh! I love that song! I didn't realise that was who you were talking about. My SOUL has been PSYCHEDELICISED!!!!

My former housemate used to play that all the time.