From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #352 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, September 9 1998 Volume 07 : Number 352 Today's Subjects: ----------------- re: 62!!! [Aaron Mandel ] Re: 62!!! (some robyn content) ["Bret" ] Re: 62!!! [Eb ] teller on the tube [Bayard ] Re: 62!!! ["Bret" ] Re: 62!!! ["JH3" ] Re: i got the cheezy poofs.... [Jason Thornton ] Re: That other game with a bat (0%RH) [Martin_Bell@idg.co.nz] re: 62!!! [Russ Reynolds ] 0% RH Content, 341% Chord-Counting [edoxtato@ssax.com] re: 62!!! [Russ Reynolds ] Re: i got the cheezy squirts [Bayard ] OK...I was wrong [Eb ] Re: 62!!! ["Bret" ] re: 62!!! ["Capitalism Blows" ] good as Gould? ( 1% Robin content) [Russ Reynolds ] Eb's birthday and McGuire [Ken Sabatini ] Re: Eb's birthday and McGuire [Gregory Stuart Shell ] RE: Hitchcock vinyl ["Partridge, John" ] RE: Hitchcock vinyl [X-Communicate ] Re: Eb's birthday and McGuire [Danielle ] Fwd: Another Mind Game [Tom Clark ] Re: 4-team divisions (was, you guessed it, 62!!) [MARKEEFE@aol.com] Re: 62!!!!! [tanter ] Re: 62!!!!! [Eb ] a REAL sport! [james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 16:33:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: re: 62!!! On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Danielle wrote: > All credit to McGwire. Now, who's the only batsman to ever get 300 in > a test match, and who managed 299 (doh!) in 1992? are there any good rules summaries of cricket on the web? i don't care for sports as entertainment, but all the arcane modifications they've made to baseball to tweak the entertainment value are sort of cool, and i hear cricket is even more involved. it occurred to me while watching a Mono Puff show that for a lot of people, going to concerts is like a sporting event. you go to cheer for the band, and if they perform the task you came to see (scoring points, playing the hit single) you go nuts; otherwise, you wonder why they aren't up to snuff that night. and no amount of noise you make nor stupid things you shout is going to bother the performers or the other audience members, since they're there for the same thing. a ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 15:43:16 -0500 From: "Bret" Subject: Re: 62!!! (some robyn content) >get >excited about that. I'd much rather see the Padres fold and the Giants >win >the division.> > >even still, then they'd have won a four team division. whoopee. i >mean, what in the bloody fuck is this, the nf fucking l maybe I missed something? San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado Arizona and I forgot what I was gonna saw about Robyn. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:51:37 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: 62!!! Are you sure Nolan Ryan pitched SEVEN no-hitters, and not six? Eb, who still thinks the DAT thread is way weenier ;) np: PM Dawn/Dearest Christian... [another ridiculously long title] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:07:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: teller on the tube I've been informed that the "Dharma & Greg" featuring Teller is going to be rerun tonight (ABC, 8pm EST). And if Teller isn't your second favorite performer, he sure should be. =b, deleting 62 messages from my inbox ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 16:12:05 -0500 From: "Bret" Subject: Re: 62!!! >Are you sure Nolan Ryan pitched SEVEN no-hitters, and not six? Eb, I was at number 7, I have no doubt. - -b ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 16:25:48 -0500 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: 62!!! Aaron Mandel writes: >are there any good rules summaries of cricket on the web? i don't care for >sports as entertainment, but all the arcane modifications they've made to >baseball to tweak the entertainment value are sort of cool, and i hear >cricket is even more involved. Try http://www.ozsports.com.au/cricket/cricket_exp.html. Mind you, though I still haven't actually read "Finnegan's Wake," I can't believe there's that much of a difference. - --JH3, who'd rather be a "DAT Weenie" than a "Claudine Longet Weenie" any day of the week ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 14:27:32 -0700 From: Jason Thornton Subject: Re: i got the cheezy poofs.... At 01:22 PM 9/9/98 -0400, Bayard wrote: >The Santa Cruz area has maybe the best burritos in the world. Hrm. Or, "hrm." Yeah, right. :P Statements like that make me think this whole get-together thingy was a hoax... probably just one guy sitting alone in a room anyhow, having conversations with himself... From what I understand, there is absolutely *NO* good Mexican food in the Bay Area. ;) - --Jason (who owns 3 MD units, 1 DAT recorder, and a CD-R burner which isn't working properly yet!) np: Brandy & Monica, "The Boy Is Mine" (single) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:30:06 +1200 From: Martin_Bell@idg.co.nz Subject: Re: That other game with a bat (0%RH) Danielle enquired, >All credit to McGwire. Now, who's the only batsman to ever get 300 in >a test match, and who managed 299 (doh!) in 1992? 299 runs: Martin Crowe V Sri Lanka, Basin Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand 300: You mean exactly 300? I thought there were about a half dozen batsmen who had scored over 300 runs in a single test innings. Brian Lara from the West Indies holds the all-time record, as I recall (not sure of the exact score). Perhaps James can confirm? Incidentally Danielle, you'll be heartened to know that the NZ cricket team lost all 4 of their build-up matches for the Commonwealth Games - 3 against a New South Wales selection and one against Australia by a humiliating 9 wickets. Their first match of the games is against Kenya, today. Worth a few bob on Kenya, I reckon. (James is familiar with my policy on ALWAYS betting against the NZ cricket team. I'm not a millionaire yet, but I have had a few free lunches on our tragic 11) Martin np: The new Manic Street Preachers - sheeeittt this is good ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 98 14:34:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: re: 62!!! ======== Original Message ======== >Danielle, missing the *other* game you play with a bat ;) You mean High-Speed Mailbox Bashing? Yeah, I miss that too! lj, who also likes the version where you drive around and throw ice at Deer X-ing signs ======== Fwd by: Russ Reynolds ======== did we hang out together in high school, lj?? I have an amusing story to tell you about mailbox bashing. After ours had been knocked to the ground for about the 15th time my dad rigged up a camera that would catch the perpetrator in the act. Not wanting any of my friends to get caught, I let them all know. What do you know, the bashings stopped, But a year or so later a few of my friends sneaked up to our house after midnight one evening and relocated our mailbox to the top of a 10-foot high 4X4 post. Pretty funny. But not as funny as the pose they struck when they took the mailbox off its original stand. Too bad the battery in the camera had died, or my dad would have had a snapshot of three bare asses. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 16:34:08 -0500 From: edoxtato@ssax.com Subject: 0% RH Content, 341% Chord-Counting Erum, this deals with baseball, which is one of my life's passions. Don't ask why. Eb wrote: >62, fine. But let's see someone try to break DiMaggio's 56-game mark. ;) Anyone here read anything by Stephen J. Gould? He's a bio prof at Harvar, who writes these great articles for "Natural History" magazine, most of which discuss evolution. He mentions in one article that most people think that human evolution, or evolution in general, is a specific process-- this simple thing becomes this complex thing, and that's that. Apparently, that notion is all wrong and Gould uses DiMaggio's 56-game record to illustrate exactly why the notion's wrong. A few years ago, someone cooked up a computer program that analysed almost every baseball statistic known, to see if the record-setting statistics were within the bounds of probability. Sure enough, the records of Hank Aaron, Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, etc, all were within the bounds of probability. In essance, they could all be done. The only one that blew the curve was DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. Just threw everything off the tracks. And _that_, says Gould, is what human evolution is like. It's wild and improbable, not a step-by-step process. Gould wrote, "The history of life is not necessarily progressive; it is certainly not predictable. The earth's creatures have evolved through a series of contingent and fortuitous events. " I always liked that argument. (Obviously.) I like the notion that randomness lives inside everything. (Oh, by the bye, I'm not arguing pro and con evolution. So creationists, put your ray guns away...) Memorising statistics? Well... fans can do that all they like. But they're really used in negotiating player's salaries. Before the agents, free-agency, the abolition of the reserve clause, binding arbitration, and Marvin Miller gaving the players labor muscle, both owners and players alike always compiled stats to disprove or prove a player's worth when it came to salary negotiations. It's the only objective measure available. The Quail asks: >PS: Who did Mother Teresa play for? And what's her batting average? That's a common misconception-- MT played beach volleyball on the shores of the Gangees. Her team was called "Pontious Pilate And The Spikers". Finally... Rush blows. I still like them, though. Why is that? Look after yerselves... - -Ed, Doc, time to go home. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 98 14:45:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: re: 62!!! eddie fucking tews remarked: >>even still, then they'd have won a four team division. br-fucking-et responded: >maybe I missed something? > >San Diego >San Francisco >Los Angeles >Colorado >Arizona In Eddie's defense, allow me to paraphrase Giants manager Bill Terry in 1934...the Dodgers? Are they still in the league? - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:51:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: i got the cheezy squirts On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Jason Thornton wrote: > At 01:22 PM 9/9/98 -0400, Bayard wrote: > > >The Santa Cruz area has maybe the best burritos in the world. > > Hrm. Or, "hrm." Yeah, right. :P Statements like that make me think this > whole get-together thingy was a hoax... Tis true, Sir Thorntongue, verily I swear it. Maybe not the area of Santa Cruz in general, but the one place to which i went. The proof is in the vast amount I ate, far more than any human should rightly be able. probably just one guy sitting alone > in a room anyhow, having conversations with himself... yow. I imagine that struck close to home for more than one gentle reader... with a colon and a P, i retire to the smallest room in the house, =b click click click ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 14:54:06 -0700 From: Eb Subject: OK...I was wrong http://www.nolanryan34.com/records53.html 20. Most no-hitters pitched, major leagues: 7, California, 1973 (2), 1974, 1975; Houston, 1981; Texas, 1990, 1991. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:10:52 -0500 From: "Bret" Subject: Re: 62!!! Russ Reynolds fucked: In Eddie's defense, allow me to paraphrase Giants manager Bill Terry in 1934...the Dodgers? Are they still in the league? - -rUss eddie fucking tews remarked: >>even still, then they'd have won a four team division. br-fucking-et responded: >maybe I missed something? well, I'll give you that one. (and I will admit that my home team *is* in a 4 fucking team division). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 15:20:51 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: re: 62!!! well, four or five. it's still pitiful. i told you i didn't pay attention anymore. but there are some divisions with four teams, aren't there? would that this were true! i can't even begin to count the number of times i've been told to sit down and/or shut-up at a baseball game. and not even for trying to be a dick, on most occasions (except for when the yankees were in town. but that goes without saying.) one old geezer even grabbed me and yanked me down (the play was: harold reynolds running towards the outfiled snags a ball hit into the hole, flips it to omar vizquel (the greatest shortstop since ozzie smith. and is it coincidence that the indians have been to two world series, and the mariners zippo since Black Monday -- december 22, 1993, the day they traded omar for a bag of horseshit (with a ribbon on it. we mustn't forget the ribbon!) or whatever it was? no, it is not.) who is running in the opposite direction more less, and who throws the runner out at first.) ejected from the kingdome twice, but once snuck back in. got told to either back off of the rail or MOVE DOWN TO THE BOX SEATS for lighting off flash paper during the national anthem. chose the latter option. got my new kids on the block and mark gastineau posters confiscated for parading them up and down aisles BETWEEN INNINGS. (why? the fucking moronos had to watch the fucking bloopers on the fucking big screen. i swear, if it weren't for between-innings videotainment, attendance at baseball games would average right around 14.) got my tickets checked for giving the cops the raspberry when they told me to quit goofing off during the national anthem. (yes, we'd paid for the cheapest seats, and climbed a fence to get into the expensive seating bowl. the fuzz said something to the effect that anyone who would disrespect the national anthem so BY DEFINITION had to be in the wrong seats.) almost got THROWN OFF the third deck for merely trying to explain to lou ferrigno's heavier cousin that trying to attempt a suicide squeeze with two outs is not exactly the wisest tactic. ("why do you think they call it suicide?" "because the runner will be hung out to dry if --" "shut the fuck up! turn around, or i'm going to throw you over!" i turned around.) that's a small, but presumably sufficient, sampling. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 98 15:36:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: good as Gould? ( 1% Robin content) >Apparently, that notion is all wrong and Gould uses DiMaggio's 56-game >record to illustrate exactly why the notion's wrong. A few years ago, >someone cooked up a computer program that analysed almost every baseball >statistic known, to see if the record-setting statistics were within the >bounds of probability. Sure enough, the records of Hank Aaron, Cy Young, >Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, etc, all were within the bounds of >probability. In essance, they could all be done. > >The only one that blew the curve was DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. >Just threw everything off the tracks. And yet it happened. In fact there have been longer streaks at other levels of play, most recently Robin Ventura in college ball. Dimaggio himself hit safely in 60 games when he was in the PCL. And take away his streak-ending 0-fer day (which included a couple of remarkable defensive plays by Cleveland 3rd baseman Ken Keltner) and Joe D would have had a streak greater than 70 games! So in spite of popular opinion and overwhelming odds I'm convinced 56 will be surpassed some day. because... >And _that_, says Gould, is what human evolution is like. It's wild and >improbable, not a step-by-step process. Gould wrote, "The history of life >is not necessarily progressive; it is certainly not predictable. The >earth's creatures have evolved through a series of contingent and >fortuitous events. " I'd like to see what this computer program said about Cy Young's 511 victories, though. And what Ripken's acomplishing while playing shortstop and third base would be tough for even a designated hitter to match. - -rUss "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." - Rogers Hornsby ^ (same initials as Robyn Hitchcock) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:26:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Sabatini Subject: Eb's birthday and McGuire Eb announced: > Subject: 62!!!!! > :) > Eb OK, I politely wish you "happy birthday." Your advanced age explains some portion of your often-cantankerous (but amusing) postings. :) Michael added: >Totally amazing. Let's all take a second to enjoy this amazing feat. >Okay, now that we've soaked it all in and have accepted this as part >of history, I think we've all got to admit that, for several weeks now, >we've pretty much known he was gonna do it and that what we're all >*really* wondering is: Will he hit *70*?!? Yeah, I too must admit that we've known about this for several weeks now: Eb dropped a hint about his birthday a few weeks ago. Something like, "Its my birthday next month!! " Will Eb hit 70, you ask? I guess it depends on his genetic makeup as well as how he takes care of himself regarding food, exercise, sleep, drugs, etc. There's always the unforeseen random events: lightning strikes, train derailments, llama attacks, etc. PS What makes McGuire such a noble fellow? The press always characterize him as such a swell and decent guy, the savior of baseball, etc. As a distant observer, I don't see what he has really done to deserve this, beyond reaching a new record. All I see is some oversized, dull, red-head with a terrific swing and great reflexes/hand-eye coordination. OK, so he's *not* a jerk and he's outwardly humble and reflective about his accomplishment, but does this make him a hero? Maybe its in comparison to the typical athlete. Or maybe just a "hero" with respect to baseball, although the extent of coverage of this event suggests otherwise. Did he rise from rags to riches, a la Sammy Sosa, while being especially charitable to others throughout his career? I don't think so--he was the son of a California dentist, was he not? I'll stop here. No I won't--one more question: why does no one talk of his use of performance enhancing chemicals any longer (or was this somehow resolved while I wasn't paying attention)? You can be damned sure I would have kept that ball if I'd caught it. Or rather, I'd have sold it, without prejudice, even to Mark. Although I would probably be stalked by some crazed baseball nut(s). Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:57:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Gregory Stuart Shell Subject: Re: Eb's birthday and McGuire On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Ken Sabatini wrote: > PS What makes McGuire such a noble fellow? The press always characterize > him as such a swell and decent guy, the savior of baseball, etc. As a > distant observer, I don't see what he has really done to deserve this, > beyond reaching a new record. All I see is some oversized, dull, red-head I heard someone on the radio today say that he has been giving 1 million a year for a number of years now, to various organizations setup to help stop child abuse. I am not sure whether it is true, but Commrad Gore should take a listen. Ooh thats right, he thinks the state provides for things like that. Sorry I forgot. Regards, Gregory S. Shell Subversive Specialist Capitalist ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:07:24 -0700 From: "Partridge, John" Subject: RE: Hitchcock vinyl This thread and others like it in the past prompt me to propose the establishment of a discography sub-group. There are several fegs who (like myself) really dig knowing the nitty gritty details about *all* of Robyn's product. Some of us are into collecting the arcana and minutiae as well. Even the best RH discographies carry errors that I would like to see eliminated. So who's with me? Just e-mail me off-list and I will compile and distribute the list of interested participants. At a minimum this subgroup could be a resource for "rareties" questions. > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Holden [mailto:mholden666@earthlink.net] > Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 8:56 AM > To: fegmaniax; etews@hotmail.com > Subject: Hitchcock vinyl > > > Hey there cap. blows, > Thanks for the response. I bookmarked Vinylvendors--I'll > have to look > through it after work tonight. > I guess I should have worded things a bit more clearly about > the Heaven > promos (Relativity 12" & Slash 7"). Yes, I would ideally want > to buy or > trade for these items, but right now I'm trying to confirm that they > actually exist. I've talked to other collectors, and we've all come up > empty handed on these; but we all have a Relativity 7" promo > that is not > mentioned on the discographies. I'm beginning to think that the > discography might be in error, and I figured that this would be the > place to test that theory. Someone did confirm that the > Spanish flexi of > Heaven exists. > Later, > Marc > n.p.--pink floyd a saucerful of secrets > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:39:12 -0700 (PDT) From: X-Communicate Subject: RE: Hitchcock vinyl > > So who's with me? Just e-mail me off-list and I will compile > and distribute the list of interested participants. At a > minimum this subgroup could be a resource for "rareties" > questions. > I am sure I am not the only one who thinks that this form of wussy weenie-ism should stay on the list. There is the Robyn-only list that WOJ sends out. Everything else is fair game, and that includes RH discography nerdism at its best. I mean if we can talk about the most sedated sport since chess for a great portion of the day, then we can indulge in the Hitchcock discography. Although it may have never seemed like it, this is Fegmaniax. .chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:20:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Danielle Subject: Re: Eb's birthday and McGuire Mr Shell: > I heard someone on the radio today say that he has been giving 1 million > a year for a number of years now, to various organizations setup to help > stop child abuse. I am not sure whether it is true, but Commrad Gore > should take a listen. Ooh thats right, he thinks the state provides for > things like that. Sorry I forgot. Is there any pressing reason why your nauseatingly smug political agenda should enter this discussion? If there is, I'd love to hear it. > Subversive > Specialist > Capitalist You know, by now I think we've all worked out *exactly* what you are. Danielle _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 17:31:22 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Fwd: Another Mind Game I usually hate these things, but this one's kinda cute. And it's music related. - -tc ============================================================ >>>Spend 5 minutes on this just for the hell of it...... >>> NO CHEATING Really. I mean it. Don't cheat. This is a little game that has a pretty funny/creepy outcome. Don't read ahead, just do it in order. It takes about 3 minutes It's worth it. It's kinda eerie.... First, Get a blank piece of paper and pen. P.S. When you are asked to choose names, make sure it's people you ACTUALLY KNOW, and go with your first instincts! Scroll down one line at a time - don't read ahead or you'll ruin the fun!! Are you ready spaghetti. . . . 1.) First, write the numbers 1 through 11 in a column. 2.) Then, beside numbers 1 and 2, write any two numbers you want. 3.) Beside the 3 and 7, write down the names of members of the opposite sex (or same sex if you're gay). Don't look ahead-or it won't turn out right! 4.) Write anyone's name (like friends or family...) in the 4th, 5th and 6th spots. Don't cheat or you'll be upset that you did. 5.) Write down four song titles in 8, 9, 10 and 11. 6.) Finally, make a wish..... And here is the key for that game.. 1.) You must tell (the number in space 2) people about this game in (the number in space 1) days in order to make your wish come true. 2.) The person in space 3 is the one that you love. 3.) The person in 7 is one you like but can't work out. 4.) You care most about the person you put in 4. 5.) The person you name in number 5 is the one who knows you very well. 6.) The person you name in 6 is your lucky star 7.) The song in 8 is the song that matches with the person in 3 8.) The title in 9 is the song for the person in 7. 9.) The tenth space is the song that tells you most about your mind. 10.) And 11 is the song telling how you feel aboutlife! GOOD LUCK ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 21:04:41 EDT From: MARKEEFE@aol.com Subject: Re: 4-team divisions (was, you guessed it, 62!!) In a message dated 98-09-09 18:24:11 EDT, you write: << well, four or five. it's still pitiful. i told you i didn't pay attention anymore. but there are some divisions with four teams, aren't there? >> Ya live in the same town as a team that's in a four-team division, in fact! Unfortuntely, they're battling out in the cellar this year. Maybe next year will be a Mariners kind of year. Regardless, I'm excited to watch a game in the new stadium. The old one blows chunks! - ------Michael K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 20:25:18 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: 62!!!!! At 09:58 AM 9/9/1998 -0500, The Great Quail wrote: >I'm not a sports fan -- far from it! -- but let's face it, no one, >including me, wants to sit around in real time and watch a teacher >graduate his 62nd straight-A teacher, or a doctor complete their 62nd >successful diagnosis. Hence my point. Maybe it's time people did start to care about stuff like that. Maybe it's time to give credit where it's due. Why does Mark McGuire deserve to earn millions of dollars for playing a game and people who work to save others are paid a pittance? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:02:07 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: 62!!!!! Marcy: >Maybe it's time to give credit where it's due. Why does Mark >McGuire deserve to earn millions of dollars for playing a game and people >who work to save others are paid a pittance? Again with this, Marcy? That argument is tiiiiiiiiired. :( Entertainment is very, very important to people. Including us. People spend millions and millions and millions of dollars on entertainment. The ability to be widely entertaining is thus highly valued, and very few people have that ability. Thus, those rare gifted folks get paid a lot for what they do. That's just the way it is. That's the marketplace. Eb, wondering if Gregory "I'm so important that I need three names" Shell has decreed a ruling on whether Mark McGwire should be allowed to breed ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:18:21 +1200 From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan) Subject: a REAL sport! >There is nothing pathetic about knowing the significance of the numbers 62, >.367, 56, 755, 190, 7 or 4,256 (bonus points to the first pathetic weenie >who can attach a player/feat to each number). 62 - age of Queen Victoria at the time of Rossetti's death .367 - gauge of rifle used by General Custer 56 - number of players in the quarterfinals of the world rugby sevens (ah! A sports question1) 755 - distance in miles from Land's End to John O'Groats 190 - combined age of the five Rolling Stones in 1980 7 or 4 - the best description of the shape of a paperclip after it has been used to extract a recalcitrant diskette 256 - number of colours available to this screen. >All credit to McGwire. Now, who's the only batsman to ever get 300 in >a test match, and who managed 299 (doh!) in 1992? heh. Poor old Martin Crowe - foiled by the Otago curse (only Otago players have scored 300 in first class cricket in NZ! The most recent was Kenny Rutherford's 317 - in a day). As for 300 in a test, several players have done that...Gary Sobers and Brian Lara, to start with! >I would hardly call it a game; it is beyond 'game.' The sport confounds >me as to how one should actually play it, not to mention how it is >actually played. quite simple. There are two teams of eleven. One is in and the other is out. Two players from the team that is in go out until one of them is out, then he goes in and is replaced by one of the other players that is in, who goes in by going out onto the field. Once ten out of eleven of them are out they are called all out and they go out while the other team goes in. The process is then repeated. The team that is out stand around trying to get the other players (the ones that are in) out. One of them keeps wicket by trying to destroy it. The ones with the steadiest hands are called slips. There are slow bowlers, who take very little time to bowl, and fast bowlers who take seemingly forever. They bowl sets of six deliveries called overs. Once six deliveries are over, the umpire calls 'over', and they go over to the other end of the pitch. The pitch is also called the wicket, and it is in the middle of the pitch. At each end of the wicket there is a wicket. It is quite possible for the team that is out's captain to have a short leg, a long leg and a square leg, and to be silly. The pitch is perfectly flat, even in the gully. I hope you followed that. James (whose best ever bowling was 5 for 34) James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #352 *******************************