Denmark wants to buy California

[Bradskii]

It was a hot, sultry day, the game was boring, and the two batsmen had put on three runs in the last hour.
Suddenly, outside the ground, the peace was shattered by a car backfiring. A spectator jumped up and shouted, 'That it! Let's all go home! The scorer's shot himself!'

This one is true. Eddo Brandes was a test player for Zimbabwe. A little overweight most of the time. He'd swung and missed a few times against Glen Mcgrath's bowling, so McGrath had a dig at him. 'Hey, Brandes. Why are you so fat?' To which he immediately replied 'Cos every time I make love to your wife she gives me a biscuit.'

 

[Bob Crowley]

This one is true. Eddo Brandes was a test player for Zimbabwe. A little overweight most of the time. He'd swung and missed a few times against Glen Mcgrath's bowling, so McGrath had a dig at him. 'Hey, Brandes. Why are you so fat?' To which he immediately replied 'Cos every time I make love to your wife she gives me a biscuit.'

I think that slanging between players is very much part of test cricket.

At least it's not Ice Hockey. As Rodney Dangarfield quipped "I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out!"

 

[7thKeeper]

I think that slanging between players is very much part of test cricket.

At least it's not Ice Hockey. As Rodney Dangarfield quipped "I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out!"

I will advocate for pesäpallo (Finnish baseball) as the superior sport compared to its American counterpart. Faster with no horribly long breaks small spurts of action and more fun shenanigans with the ball as any ball that hits the legal play area continued to be legal, no matter where it bounces or rolls from there.

 

[Bob Crowley]

I'd never heard of it so I looked it up and watched part of a brief video. The pitch would be a lot easier to hit than baseball.

I suppose this gives the batter more control over the game rather than a good pitcher.

Although with all the lakes you've got there it must be difficult to stop the ball going in the water! What happens then? The batter keeps running while the other team swims for it?

 

[7thKeeper]

I'd never heard of it so I looked it up and watched part of a brief video. The pitch would be a lot easier to hit than baseball.

I suppose this gives the batter more control over the game rather than a good pitcher.

Although with all the lakes you've got there it must be difficult to stop the ball going in the water! What happens then? The batter keeps running while the other team swims for it?

Yep. If the hit was legal, gotta swim after it, the batter and runners are free to just go at it. There isn't a homerun like in baseball, if you hit the ball straight over the backline, it's an illegal hit. So the first bounce has to be within the game area. After that, it's all fair game.
Homerun in pesäpallo is you being able to run from home to third base without stopping at any of the other bases.

In one game, my daughter hit the ball just barely within limits at the back without the other team catching it and it just rolled further away as they ran after it. That is, until way in the back, there was a raised container that the home team used to store all their equipment in. And it rolled under it. They weren't going to get it out without help, so it ended up a homerun.

 

[Bob Crowley]

Lucky it's a golf course at a place called Carbrook not that far from here, and not a Pesäpallo field.

Otherwise the scoreboard would read "Pesäpallo 0 / Sharks 3".

 

[7thKeeper]

Lucky it's a golf course at a place called Carbrook not that far from here, and not a Pesäpallo field.

Otherwise the scoreboard would read "Pesäpallo 0 / Sharks 3".

I think at that point the other team will just go "yeah, you can have the run."

 

[Oompa Loompa]

Wait wait wait a minute. You mean to tell me that the crickets have wickets?

Please tell me the the crickets with wickets don't have the rickets.

 

[Laodicean60]

'Hey, Brandes. Why are you so fat?' To which he immediately replied 'Cos every time I make love to your wife she gives me a biscuit.'

lol Reminds me of guy talk at work. There are several variations to this.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Yes. They were called "thralls" and were slaves that were used as labor or sold.

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So slaves and not prisoners.

 

[RileyG]

Lutherans in Scandinavia view their religion as a private matter for the most part. That's even true of many American Lutherans, in my experience. There's a thing called the Jante Laws that's a bit of a custom, that says you don't presume to be better than other people or special in any way, and that is very much influenced by Lutheran pietism. The ostentatious religiosity of Americans would be very alien to the average Christian in Scandinavia.

Thanks for the response

 

[Belk]

So slaves and not prisoners.

Kind of a distinction without a difference, but yes.

 

[RamiC]

Wait! Who is on first?

They toss a coin.

 

[HantsUK]

It's like cricket, just a little less boring.

So, still boring?

 

[Chesterton]

So, still boring?

Well yeah, when a single game has been going on for three weeks it can get a bit boring, innit?

 

[HantsUK]

Roll on the Ashes!

America limiting their World Series to just 2 nations omitting the other 194, does avoid the embarrassment of teaching the world how to play football, rugby and cricket and then loosing.

 

[HantsUK]

Well yeah, when a single game has been going on for three weeks it can get a bit boring, innit?

I'm told that a good book helps!

 

[Jipsah]

Sounds like a plan, we get Greenland and $10 billion dollars to the Trump Trust and they get California.

But what's in it for Denmark?

 

[Jipsah]

Even those who are faithful Christians and conservative in CA?

They'll be happier as members of the Folkekirke (the Danish State Church, aka Lutheran) anyway. That's where I go when I'm there; it's close enough to Anglican for my purposes. Plus it's within walking distance.

CA can be a nation on its own with its own population.

That's OK with me; there'll be a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe in front of the capital within 10 years!

I'd rather keep us United.

I'm ready for Tennessee to declare independence. We get along with pretty much everybody. And then my grandkids could be citizens of the US, Denmark, and Tennessee.

 

[Jipsah]

Someone should create a list showing why this is the most ridiculous president USA has ever had.

Worse than the one who just slept through his own administration?