Daddles
5th August 2005, 09:21 PM
It's all America's fault.
It is.
Dead set.
After the English gentlemen got their collection bottoms spanked, not to mention getting quite a few good quality serfs killed, by the American Subclass of Colonials (who for some reason no longer wanted to be colonials, but that's by the by), a collection of English Surviving Gentlemen got together to see if they could find a less expensive way of easing these sorts of tensions, especially as they now had to deal with the Australian Subclass of Colonials.
Cricket was the result.
By using this ritualised method of combat, these enlightened gentlemen achieved the following results -
- not as many good quality serfs died
- they (the English) could be flogged silly and it didn't matter
- they could flog the colonials silly and the beggars just came back for another serve, always a good thing provided you could do it again next time
- if they were lucky, they could make a lot of money out of it, though this was a minor consideration as lots of money could also be made in your average shooting type war ... provided you survived.
But they showed the true cunning of the English aristocracy.
They created a set of rules so obscure that the only sure way of telling when someone had failed to grasp a vital concept was to hear him say that he understood it perfectly.
And thus we have cricket today.
Cheers
Richard
It is.
Dead set.
After the English gentlemen got their collection bottoms spanked, not to mention getting quite a few good quality serfs killed, by the American Subclass of Colonials (who for some reason no longer wanted to be colonials, but that's by the by), a collection of English Surviving Gentlemen got together to see if they could find a less expensive way of easing these sorts of tensions, especially as they now had to deal with the Australian Subclass of Colonials.
Cricket was the result.
By using this ritualised method of combat, these enlightened gentlemen achieved the following results -
- not as many good quality serfs died
- they (the English) could be flogged silly and it didn't matter
- they could flog the colonials silly and the beggars just came back for another serve, always a good thing provided you could do it again next time
- if they were lucky, they could make a lot of money out of it, though this was a minor consideration as lots of money could also be made in your average shooting type war ... provided you survived.
But they showed the true cunning of the English aristocracy.
They created a set of rules so obscure that the only sure way of telling when someone had failed to grasp a vital concept was to hear him say that he understood it perfectly.
And thus we have cricket today.
Cheers
Richard