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Flogger Jun 23rd 2009 11:59 am
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Brownstar (Post 7692824)
Pray tell why?
Just a thought

Brownstar Jun 23rd 2009 12:03 pm
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Flogger (Post 7692856)
Just a thought
Come on you must have a reason why? Are you insinuating that I don't understand the finer elements of the game?

Novocastrian Jun 23rd 2009 12:06 pm
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Brownstar (Post 7692872)
Come on you must have a reason why? Are you insinuating that I don't understand the finer elements of the game?
Perhaps he thinks you make a silly point?

Brownstar Jun 23rd 2009 12:09 pm
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 7692883)
Perhaps he thinks you make a silly point?
Is that a 'silly mid off' point?

Novocastrian Jun 23rd 2009 12:13 pm
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Brownstar (Post 7692872)
Come on you must have a reason why? Are you insinuating that I don't understand the finer elements of the game?
Originally Posted by Brownstar (Post 7692892)
Is that a 'silly mid off' point?
Nuff said.

Tangram Jun 23rd 2009 11:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy (Post 7692628)
It is possible to go off even Academics you know. :p
Been there, done that.

Brownstar Jun 24th 2009 2:49 am
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 7692900)
Nuff said.
Think it was the fact that my Dad used to watch Cricket non-stop when I was a kid, with the sound down on the TV and the Radio 4 commentary on..............bored me senseless and I think that I have been traumatised by it ever since.

Novocastrian Jun 24th 2009 3:38 am
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Brownstar (Post 7695381)
Think it was the fact that my Dad used to watch Cricket non-stop when I was a kid, with the sound down on the TV and the Radio 4 commentary on..............bored me senseless and I think that I have been traumatised by it ever since.
Funnily enough, my sons agree with you. :(

Brownstar Jun 24th 2009 3:46 am
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 7695567)
Funnily enough, my sons agree with you. :(
I just remember all those times I could have been watching Battle of the Planets and he was watching Cricket........in the days when having more than 1 TV was a luxury

Novocastrian Jun 24th 2009 3:50 am
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Originally Posted by Brownstar (Post 7695588)
I just remember all those times I could have been watching Battle of the Planets and he was watching Cricket........in the days when having more than 1 TV was a luxury
I've never heard of Battle of the Planets, but I bet it was less violent than Freddie Truman.

Brownstar Jun 24th 2009 4:30 am
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Battle of the Planets...............G FORCE!

Oakvillian Jun 24th 2009 8:01 am
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Brownstar (Post 7695381)
Think it was the fact that my Dad used to watch Cricket non-stop when I was a kid, with the sound down on the TV and the Radio 4 commentary on..............bored me senseless and I think that I have been traumatised by it ever since.
How can TMS have bored you senseless? It was the soundtrack to my childhood summers. The "old guard" in particular (Arlott when I was a nipper, Johnston, Mosey, and latterly Agnew ) possessed some of the most wonderful turns of phrase, and there was something beautifully mellifluous about the slightly waffly timbre of a Radio 3 TMS broadcast on a summer's afternoon. My mother, not the world's greatest cricket fan, used to enjoy listening to the other stuff they talked about - the red buses, the pigeons, the cakes... it can be almost more entertaining during stoppages than when there's cricket taking place.

Brownstar Jun 24th 2009 8:25 am
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 7696358)
How can TMS have bored you senseless? It was the soundtrack to my childhood summers. The "old guard" in particular (Arlott when I was a nipper, Johnston, Mosey, and latterly Agnew ) possessed some of the most wonderful turns of phrase, and there was something beautifully mellifluous about the slightly waffly timbre of a Radio 3 TMS broadcast on a summer's afternoon. My mother, not the world's greatest cricket fan, used to enjoy listening to the other stuff they talked about - the red buses, the pigeons, the cakes... it can be almost more entertaining during stoppages than when there's cricket taking place.
When I hear clips of them now I find it fascinating/funny/calming but as a teenager it was incredibly boring

Novocastrian Jun 24th 2009 8:33 am
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Originally Posted by Brownstar (Post 7696433)
When I hear clips of them now I find it fascinating/funny/calming but as a teenager it was incredibly boring
Tut. I look forward to lengthy debate about the degree of threat posed by a cloud approaching the Oval from the west. And comparisons to that other cloud at Headingley in 1972.

Steve_P Jun 24th 2009 8:45 am
Re: Ashes Series on TV
 
Season 2 ended a few weeks ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ashestoashes/

I do believe there is a third season in the works.;):sneaky::rofl::rofl:


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