baseball

A commercialised version of the game 'rounders', popular among little girls in Britain and other commonwealth countries. Sri Lanka also had a similar game which they called 'ell-ey'.

In general, baseball is considered to be an American substitute for cricket. A 'baseball is to cricket what checkers is to chess' sort of thing.

Back in the 1700s in Boston (USA), cricket was played by English immigrants, particularly the ones that considered themselves to be upper class. But Boston had also acquired a plebeian and Irish flavour. The game of rounders, an earlier form of cricket which seems to have been favoured by the Irish, as well as by English children in the 16th century, became the game of choice among the youth.

The Boston cricketers of the time encouraged rounders as a secondary diversion, and even allowed it to be played in their cricket fields by those who preferred an alternative to the more formal sport of cricket. So 'early baseball' (ie US Rounders) grew up in the USA under cricket's benign umbrella. It stayed that way for about the first hundred years of its existence.

By the 1900s, cricket and baseball were looking far more different from each other than in baseball's earlier years. And by that time, it had become an issue of "cricket OR baseball" in the USA...and everyone knows what happened.

"I am a former collegiate baseball player who was always curious about cricket, but never found the time, or the avenue, to explore it - until Fox Sports World broadcast Zimbabwe in India, five years ago. The intricacies of the game speak to the strategic, patient baseball fan within me."

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sussed

Sorted.


Used when a solution is reached, or when a task is accomplished.

Hey, have you got that budget proposal sussed?

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shot

Used when something good happens.

Probably a shortened form of 'Great shot!' (sport)

Shot bro! (Thanks!)

SHOT! (Awesome! Brilliant!)

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batsmen

A term used in the sport of Cricket.

Plural of batsman.

It is doubtful whether the Zimbabwean batsmen can last against the pace attack of the Australian bowlers.

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elbonia

Elbonia is the collective name for all places outside of the United States of America and can be considered to be a nation of its own.

The nation is entirely mud-covered. It is very backward and it's ihabitants can write but haven't as yet learned to read.

The inhabitants all look alike, wearing the same style of clothes (robe and turban-hat) and sporting beards of aproximately the same length. They have long and unpronouncable names.

Elbobnia is a very attractive land for American corporations as it has no environmental or labour laws. Call Center and manufacturing are often outsorced to Elbonia.

Americans don't travel to Elbonia except on business. All non-corporate Americans are ignorant of its existance.

We've moved all our call centers to Elbonia but we don't think anyone will notice.

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whinge

Verb To whinge

A British/Australian/New Zealand (possibly South African and other commonwealth) English word which describes incessant complaining. A behaviour commonly associated with poms/pommes/pohms/pommies (people from England).

If you want to get anything done in this country you've gotta whinge till you're blue in the face!

Aw piss off ya blardy whingin' pommie!

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bugger

Technically means to sodomize, but most people use the word in a variety of situations, often without realizing the true meaning.


It is often considered these days to be more acceptable that the word 'fuck' (as long as you are not in the presence of anyone old enough to remember the actual meaning).

BUGGER! (when something goes wrong.)

Bugger-me! ('Well I'll be damned..')

Bugger THAT! (When you can't be bothered doing something.)

That bugger stole my Holden! (used to refer to a person in a derogatory manner.)

I decided to let the bugger enjoy it. (used in reference to a friend or someone you feel sorry for.)

I must've buggered that question.. (messed up)

Bugger-off! ('Get lost!')

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