Is that cricket?
Oct. 12th, 2003 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiBecause I never tire of this sort of stupid humor.
The B.H. and I went out to dinner on Friday, and somehow over the shrimp the talk turned to last month's England/South Africa test series, and England's surprise win in the last match of the series (I think). He was talking about all the old players who came out with career-best performances, and so I asked who the England captain was now, because Hussain stepped down.
Me: Who's the captain of the England team, anyway.
B.H.: Michael Vaughn.
Me: Bwahahaha. Well, that explains a lot.
It probably helps to know that the captain is, traditionally, the most useless member of the team. And that this is not as funny as the fact that the cricket team also once had a player named Nick Knight, because in his case we got to make all kinds of extra-strong sunscreen and spontaneous combustion jokes.
The B.H. and I went out to dinner on Friday, and somehow over the shrimp the talk turned to last month's England/South Africa test series, and England's surprise win in the last match of the series (I think). He was talking about all the old players who came out with career-best performances, and so I asked who the England captain was now, because Hussain stepped down.
Me: Who's the captain of the England team, anyway.
B.H.: Michael Vaughn.
Me: Bwahahaha. Well, that explains a lot.
It probably helps to know that the captain is, traditionally, the most useless member of the team. And that this is not as funny as the fact that the cricket team also once had a player named Nick Knight, because in his case we got to make all kinds of extra-strong sunscreen and spontaneous combustion jokes.
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Date: 2003-10-12 11:39 am (UTC)Apparently I don't either, because I've been quietly sniggering every time Radio 4 mentions cricket results in my hearing for quite some time now. It's just icing on the cake that they've made the guy captain. I suppose it gets him the perfect excuse to jet off to far flung locations; it's just that spending five days out on the pitch fielding isn't exactly the most flexible or incognito way to carry out Secret Missions. ;-)
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Date: 2003-10-12 12:53 pm (UTC)I have to say that making him captain makes the joke even funnier, from my point of view. Just because. And anyway, maybe all the time he's out there, looking like he's fielding, he's listening to reports from other agents on some fancy, Marshall-devised earpiece.