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Originally posted by quest
got this in the mail!
Ponting: (n) (adj)
1. A substance or entity or even a person of questionable integrity
2. An act of uncivilised behaviour. [Also, pontingness (n)]
Usage: The judge was driven towards justice because he knew that the pontiff was a ponting.
Sir Bonkers said, “Don’t try to bully me. I surely can fathom the pontingness in your eyes”.
Bucknor: (n) (adj)
1. Temporary blindness leading to missing out on the obvious.
2. To be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
3. Situations leading to grave judgemental errors.
Usage: I feel bucknored by my boss; Life often throws a bucknor at you.
Benson: (n) (adj)
1. Something that legitimises a severe bucknor.
Usage: First they bucknored me and then they bensoned it! I am toast.
Also see bucknor
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Originally posted by pratickm
India withdraw tour quit threat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7185056.stm
What a bunch of wussies.
In the end, politics and monetary greed win the day, under the guise of "friendly relations" and "spirit of the sport".
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Quote:Which we clearly don't, and perhaps, should.
Originally posted by BlueLobster
Everybody's now talking about how the BCCI uses financial power to bully.
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"Mah deah, there is much more money to be made in the destruction of civilization than in building it up."
-- Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind"
It gets worse (and more humiliating) -
India withdraw Hogg abuse charge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7177032.stm
It's possible that some sort of a "deal" has been reached between the two boards.
If that's so, Bhajji may be given a suspended sentence or his convinction might be overruled.
Regardless, we have lost face significantly in this bargain, esp. from a PR perspective.
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"Mah deah, there is much more money to be made in the destruction of civilization than in building it up."
-- Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind"
What a GAME!
India can withdraw charges against Hogg
but Aus can't do same thing
I think SOMETHING else is calling the SHOTS
Its more than GAME
This was expected. In the name of friendship & cricket. Show must go on. But its different story that Interest may not go that long.
Everybody is having a ball. Everybody is saying something or other. Among all that read this http://www.mid-day.com/web/guest/sports/news/article?_EXT_5_articleId=897044&_EXT_5_groupId=14. Gavaskar did put it in Black & White and Brown !!!
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Originally posted by pratickm
It gets worse (and more humiliating) -
India withdraw Hogg abuse charge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/7177032.stm
It's possible that some sort of a "deal" has been reached between the two boards.
If that's so, Bhajji may be given a suspended sentence or his convinction might be overruled.
Regardless, we have lost face significantly in this bargain, esp. from a PR perspective.
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