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Post by newby on Dec 8, 2023 13:57:04 GMT
Smoking and Vaping area I suppose these days. Though many vapers seem to do it on the sly wherever they like.
I should think part of the problem over the years is the weight of history making it difficult to choose who to name a limited number of stands after, and consequently who you leave out. I can imagine all kinds of debates about so and so being snubbed and what did he do to deserve it etc.
Added to that quite a number of recent heroes, encompassing the 60's say, have often had a falling out with the club at the stage of their careers when they were thought to be on the wane.
I do agree that the dreadful area behind the Truman Enclosure, there's someone who bucked the trend, could do with some artwork of some kind, as could the recently built cavern through the new football stand.
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Post by davemorton on Dec 8, 2023 14:05:50 GMT
Yes, a Brian Close smoking room and a Bobby Peel bar would be welcome additions. Geoffrey Boycott nets and JM Kilburn press box might be two serious suggestions. This is Thatcher's Bar, Gloucestershire CCC, named after the Cider people rather than the other one, I hope. Just a corner of a little room, and this has more information than any public space at Headingley. Attachments:
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Post by Hit Wicket on Dec 8, 2023 14:35:49 GMT
As part of my working life I am contractually obliged to sit through tedious online training to remind me of the bleeding obvious.
I've just endured a tiresome code of conduct course (aside: the narrator was a yank yet we are a German company). That's by the by, though, because my only *ahem* takeaway from this online training was "Is 'ombudsperson' really a word?".
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Post by davemorton on Dec 8, 2023 14:51:57 GMT
And what's the answer? Thropfoodle is a word, because I just wrote it, but is it a sensible one?
Your story reminded me of the mother in Malcolm in the Middle, who constantly screamed, "WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE?" Aka the Meldrew syndrome. It gets worse, with age.
I remember staff meetings, when I understood every word, but none of the sentences.
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Post by karma on Dec 8, 2023 20:30:25 GMT
Everyone in the family was afraid of the mum in Malcolm on the Middle. My favourite scene was when Malcolm's dad was saying something 'calming' about Malcolm's mum.
With the next breath he had a terrified look on his face when saying to the boy's, " Who left the top off the toothpaste? RUNNN!!!,"
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Post by karma on Dec 8, 2023 20:54:18 GMT
Sadly reported is the death at 85 of tv Producer/director Alan J W BELL.
He was involved for donkeys years in 'Last of the Summer Wine' and also 'Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy' , perhaps the two most diametrically opposed series you could imagine.
I loved both. The timeless gentle humour over the years as the three main protagonists in 'wine' seamlessly changed, the contrived plot lines, slapstick . Watched an episode this evening . Peter Sallis, doesn't act , he plays himself.
And 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' . I love science fiction but this is SF like no other , humour and the end of the earth, what a mixture. My favourite character is not Arthur Dent or even the two headed Zaphod Beeblebrox but the depressed robot Marvin(?) " OK, I'll just go and stand in the corner until I turn to rust" (my words)
Brilliant productions both and he made his directional debut in 1968 with Crackerjack.
CRACKERJACK!!!!
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Post by donnylad on Dec 8, 2023 22:16:43 GMT
.... and if there is much more rain here then I suspect that all the diodes down my left hand side will start to give me pain and the the only remedy might be a trip to the Big Bang Burger Bar for a healthy bowl of cabbage soup.
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Post by davemorton on Dec 9, 2023 0:55:36 GMT
Brain the size of a planet, and I spend all my days posting anecdotes on a cricket forum.
I went to the local pharmacy today, to pick up a prescription, I was second in the queue. The guy in front of me was on a similar mission, except he was picking up a prescription for someone else. Unfortunately, he knew neither the name nor the address of his friend, or whoever it was.
Tricky, as the big computer in Hitchhiker's Guide, was apt to say. 42 was obviously the answer.
When I was teaching a very bright bunch of kids one time, I gave them a snap algebra test. Something like:
If a=5 and b=7, evaluate,,,,
1) ab + a + b - 5 2) (a + 2)(b -1) 3) etc, with increasing complexity.
Every answer was 42. They started laughing after about 20 seconds. You could have done that with an average ability class, and it wouldn't have worked at all. They would have got the answers wrong anyway, and Hitchhiker was way beyond them, so they didn't watch it. Different species.
A good friend was Head of Year 11. Each September he would address his new charges. He would tell them that past misdemeanours were forgotten, and that everyone started with a clean slate.
"We understand that you're going through adolescence," he would tell them, "That difficult period between childhood and adultery."
In the staffroom afterwards he would say, "Not much of a laugh. I think the GCSE results will be rubbish this year." A pretty accurate guide, I reckon.
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Post by karma on Dec 10, 2023 14:28:53 GMT
Just ticking the 'thumbs up' and saying I liked your post Dave isn't enough. I actually started working out the algebra , the penny dropped.
The quotation by Head of Year 11 was a hoot. Really made me laugh out loud so much so that my wife asked me what it was.
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Post by Hit Wicket on Dec 12, 2023 7:01:59 GMT
Yes, I snorted with laughter at. What a great tool to determine class potential.
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Post by newby on Dec 13, 2023 11:05:16 GMT
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Post by slowleftarmer on Dec 13, 2023 11:49:41 GMT
Good to see some places still value Paul Grayson as a coach.... he was sacked by YCCC of course as part of the group unfairly dismissed by Lord Patel and despite him not even being employed by YCCC at the time of the Rafiq allegations. Ok, he signed a letter with the others to the Board but his dismissal (noting he was also best man at Gough's wedding I believe) was grossly unfair.
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Post by karma on Dec 13, 2023 14:02:02 GMT
Smoking and Vaping area I suppose these days. Though many vapers seem to do it on the sly wherever they like. I should think part of the problem over the years is the weight of history making it difficult to choose who to name a limited number of stands after, and consequently who you leave out. I can imagine all kinds of debates about so and so being snubbed and what did he do to deserve it etc. Added to that quite a number of recent heroes, encompassing the 60's say, have often had a falling out with the club at the stage of their careers when they were thought to be on the wane. I do agree that the dreadful area behind the Truman Enclosure, there's someone who bucked the trend, could do with some artwork of some kind, as could the recently built cavern through the new football stand. Didn't we sign player called Sam Northeast a few years ago only for a short period, I think when the batting needed bolstering. I don't recall him 'tearing up any trees' ( often the case when players come to Yorkshire) I think he finished last season with Glamorgan and played against us Anyway somebody at YCCC must have thought something about him, they named a stand after him.
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Post by karma on Dec 16, 2023 11:43:38 GMT
Came across some interesting birthdays for today date
Benny Andersson - 77 Composer and member of group Abba. Q Which of the following did he compose? : Cats, Chess, Evita Q What Eurovision winning song did he help write?
Joel Garner - 71 Cricketer Q How did a Nurse help turn him into a leading bowler? Q He signed for a County team in 1977, which County and from which team in the Central Lancashire League?
Billy Gibbons - 74 Musician of group ZZ Top (together with Dusty Hill and Frank Beard) "Sharp Dressed Man" Q Until 2021 (when Dusty Hill died) what record did the group hold? Q Frank Beard was the odd man out in the group, how was he different?
No prizes, just a bit of fun, I hope.
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Post by davemorton on Dec 16, 2023 13:12:10 GMT
Joel Garner! Now there was frightening!
I think he played for Littleborough in the CLL, which was a pretty decent pitch, at least. I know I had a close brush with Garner death one year, The CLL used to play quite a lot of league games on a Sunday, which meant their season finished earlier than ours did. One season, a club called Woodbank (just north of Bury) signed him for the last three matches, as they were in relegation danger. Dump of a place.
We at Prestwich were in danger, too, but we weren't allowed to sign a substitute pro because we actually didn't have a pro to substitute, if that makes sense. It certainly didn't make sense to us.
Anyway, Garner played for Woodbank against the already-crowned champions, and took 9 for 10. The following Saturday was a washout throughout the league, so we came to the final game, Prestwich v Woodbank, in which the loser would be relegated. As opening bat, I was not looking forward to it. Driving to the ground was a bit like the walk to the gallows.
I got there, eventually, and our captain did the good news / bad news routine on me. The bad news was that they had a West Indian Test pro. The good news was that it was Clairmonte Depeiaza, not Joel Garner. He was old, not very good, I scored 30-odd, my opening partner got 60, and we won easily.
Obviously Garner went on to play for Somerset. Richards, Botham and Garner in the same team, and they never won the County Championship!
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