Cricket

[smokingthings.livejournal.com]

This is great:

an annual cricket match between the Sherlock Holmes Society and the P.G. Wodehouse society

The Wodehousians won, which is not surprising, since Wodehouse's descriptions of cricket actually make me wish I were in a cricket-playing country.

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Sounds luvverly. Link, please?

[mechanicaljewel.livejournal.com]

I found this:

http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/art.php?news_id=54

Yay Google!

[smokingthings.livejournal.com]

Oh, right! That's important *rolls eyes at self*

[sine-que-non767.livejournal.com]

Aw, bless! I think the authors would be pleased.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Trust me, you don't. Nothing wrecks the nerves like a game that goes on for *days*. you didn't want to be in england in summer, really you didn't. Whole nation going up to strangers and going 'argh, help, cannot cope!' with fingernails bitten to the quick.

[smokingthings.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you're right. And I imagine Australia's even worse, what with the hole in the ozone layer and all.

Still, you have to like a sport where three or four different things are all called the "wicket."

[mechanicaljewel.livejournal.com]

I just can't stop thinking of Life, the Universe, and Everything (That's the third Hitchhiker's Guide book, if you don't know), where apparently cricket is the Earthling representation of a (literally) universal collective unconcious memory of a horrible galaxy-wide massacre. And Belgium is the worst curse-word in the universe. Earthlings are slow like that.