From: "Brian Walters"
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:14:03 -0500, "John Sessoms"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Someone posted a cricket photo and a discussion of it referred to the
> Maori Haka dance, "silly leg" and some other pythonesque phrases.
>
The haka is commonly performed by New Zealand footballers before rugby
matches. It's designed to strike fear and trepidation into the
opposition and it usually works.
The New Zealand cricket team, on the other hand, doesn't perform the
haka. Perhaps it should....
IIRC, the image was of someone in a cricket match, and had some element
that caused both the comment about the Haka, and the "silly leg", but
was not actually an image of a Haka. From there the thread wandered off
the original topic, as threads are wont to do ... possibly obscure puns
in base13. I don't remember.
Some of the comments didn't make sense, and I was looking up cricket
rules and information to try to figure out the references, when I ran
across whatever it was that has/is/was/uses/is divided into "42" parts ...
It struck me because whatever it was that has 42 parts was itself
slightly amusing, and I thought "Oh HO! So that's where he got that
from"; because Adams does go on a bit about Cricket in the "trilogy in
five parts".
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