[LargeFormat] The second day of the Test....

[Brock Nanson]

I had always wondered why it was called 'test' cricket... that is until I
spent Christmas down under a few years back.  Now I understand that it's
just short for something else, or whatever you want to make it short for:

test your patience (will something interesting EVER happen?)
test your attention span (if they can stand there all day, I can sit here
all day)
test your bladder (can't go now, something MIGHT happen!)
test your marriage (are you going to sit there ALL DAY??)

I could add more, but you get the idea I'm sure...

They don't even fight (so it wouldn't go over here in Canada)!

Merry Christmas to all!

Brock

----- Original Message -----
From: Stein <stein@bekkers.com.au>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] The second day of the Test....


> Dear Mark,
>
>      That was a good question about the World Cup. You piqued my
curiousity
> about what did happen so I went down earlier in the evening to the
> Esplanade. They've got the goalkeeper and the captain of the failed
> Australian team down there buried up to the chin in hot sand and you can
pay
> $ 2 for a jar of sergeant ants to tip over them. Well, it amuses the kids
> for Christmas.