Movember is here!!!

No need for the ladies to participate.

Movember

On an almost un-related subject, I want my talking Boonie!!!

Trouble is, I have to buy VB to get him...

I can't wait for the Ashes to start so we can slaughter the pommies! :D

Glad to see that oblique cultural advertising initiatives are just as bizarre down under as they are here.

Is the National Depression Initiative promoting or trying to get rid of depression? I can't really tell from the splash page ad, there.

Hagar wrote:

On an almost un-related subject, I want my talking Boonie!!!

Trouble is, I have to buy VB to get him...

Ebay baby, ebay.

I bought one for our apprentice mechanic for $20-ish.

Elspode...it's for getting rid of it or treating it. Whichever way you want to look at it. Check out the beyondblue website.

DucksNuts wrote:

Ebay baby, ebay.

I bought one for our apprentice mechanic for $20-ish.

Cool, I never thought of Ebay for a Boonie! OMG the crap some folks sell (and buy)!!!!

What the hell is a boonie? :question:

Australian Cricketing hero and cultural Icon. You get him by buying beer!
He talks when you place him on the TV during the Ashes Test coverage.

David Boon is an Australian Cricketing Icon. He has the big handle bar moustache, beer gut and he's huge. He's a funny bugger and last year they bought out a *talking boonie doll*. He sits on your coffee table and (im not sure of the technology and I'm too lazy to look it up) makes comments before, during and after the game.

Like he says, "Crickets starting in 30 minutes"..."get me a beer" etc etc

He was very popular!!

omg

I read a couple of blogs there... that boonie insanity sounds like fun! anybody here have one?

Alright. It is high time, and now I have a chance. Right here, RFN...*someone*, in two brief paragraphs or less, PLEASE explain cricket to me? I'd like to be able to understand, if not actually enjoy, this game the next time I stumble upon it on cable.

Some people dress posh, others dress preppie. The preppie ones play some sort of ball game involving paddles and wickets, and the posh ones socialize.

Two Teams, *bat* is tossed to see who bats v's who fields. Batting team has 2 batters out on the *pitch* at a time. You have spin bowlers (slow) and fast bowlers (obvious). To get a batter out (who is facing the ball) you must
a) bowl them out - this can be done by hitting the *stumps/wicket* (sticks at each end of the pitch) as the ball is bowled at the batter.
b) field them out - caught ball (can be caught off the batters pads as well as in field)
c) run them out - if a batter doesnt make it over the white lines and the ball strikes the wickets
d) LBW - Leg Before Wicket...this is where you will see/hear everyone jump around and go "HOWZZZZAAATT!!!!". This is where the batter puts himself in front of the wicket, protecting it as such, from getting bowled.

Scored - runs are 1, 4's (when the ball hits the fence/rope) or 6's (over the fence).

Someone else will have to explain the One Dayer v's Several Dayer.

I know you have to chase the other teams score and have *wickets* (batters not out) in hand at the end of a One Dayer.

Ummm - you will have to ask if you want to know anything else, I'm way past my 2 paragraphs.

D - Leg Before Wicket Why do it if you're going to be out? Why protect the wicket if getting hit by the ball means you're out anyway?

to attempt to hit the ball into play and possibly score and avoid a sure loss. think of the qb throwing the ball out of bounds to avoid a sack.

Elspode wrote:

D - Leg Before Wicket Why do it if you're going to be out? Why protect the wicket if getting hit by the ball means you're out anyway?

It's strange how what seems so obvious to people who know and understand the game, is extremely unintuitive to others. To answer your question quickly, it is a natural part of the game for the batsmen to stand in line with the wicket, simply because that is where the bowler will be bowling. When others have said 'protected', they mean they are protecting with the bat, not with the body. And to clarify, getting hit by the ball does not lead immediately to the batsmen being out. It has to be judged by the umpire that the ball would have hit the wicket if not for the fact that it hit the batsmenon the legs.

Watching cricket can be a fantastic experience, though I reckon it must be the longest sporting game in the world. Even the 'short' version takes half a day.

We've just had the first one day game of the domestic season here today. There is little better than driving around with the cricket on the radio, a/c on full tilt and the windows down.

All I need is a white bowling hat and it could be an old man's doof doof!

O
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Hagar!!!

"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he is out. When they are all out, the side that's been out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out, he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who are all out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game."
Best description of the game I can think of (and it's two paragraphs, as requested!)! (Found here, but remembered from somewhere else (a tea-towel in a friend's kitchen I think ...)

Its now OCTOBER n my boony wont fkn shut up..
it goes form around 5am till wenever “Get me a vb the crickets about to start” or “Whens the drinks Break?” and “Todays codeword is “wateva” x3 todays codeword according to booney is Cheers…. he gets really annoying
-dani

Ive Got A Box Of Boony’s, Nearly All the Batteries are Flat Or Going Flat By Now. So I Changed The Batteries In About 15 Of Them, And They All Started Talking Again !!! Some In The Morning, Some In The Middle Of Night, Some During The Day.
Some Days They Dont Speak At All. So If You Change The Batteries You Shouldn’t Have Any Probs. They Talk In Cycles, They Shut Up For 114 Days Then Go Into A Talk Phase For ???
Then Go Back Into 114 Day Quiet Cycle. SHOULD LIVE FOREVER as long as Fresh Batteries Are Installed.
-Mark

Sounds like a mixed blessing.
Hmmm...wonder if I could get my Bobble-Head to swear? :D

Theres a boonie hack site somewhere, they got him saying all kinds of neat stuff ;)