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Just now, Adelaide Tiger said:

Not an uninteresting trivial fact, but I would be surprised if this has ever happened.

Watching the Big Bash cricket match between Adelaide Strikers and Brisbane Heat, Adelaide had a debutant bowler called Haskett.  In his first over he got hit for a six and the ball was caught by a bloke sat in the stand who remained stony-face and just threw the ball back. Later in the innings it showed the replay of the catch again and the bloke who caught it was Hasketts father!  What was funny is that when it showed the replay the father put his hand on h his wife’s shoulder and she pushed it away.

To add to the coincidence, the on-pitch female presenter commented that she recognised Hasketts mother as the teacher who had taught her Human Biology at High School.

Ah! An uninteresting fact.  The game had a total of 26 sixes which was the joint highest total in Big Bash history.

I just put the same story in the Cricket thread. I was watching and I thought at the time that it was odd the catcher was so unimpressed with his feat.


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14 minutes ago, Farmduck said:

I just put the same story in the Cricket thread. I was watching and I thought at the time that it was odd the catcher was so unimpressed with his feat.

I somehow forgot about the cricket thread.  Doh!

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when I was a kid  I used to think drop kerbs in front of peoples drives were just normal kerbs that had been worn down by the weight of the cars driving over the top of them 

see you later undertaker - in a while necrophile 

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during the recording of the 1st episode of steptoe and son (the offer) wilfrid bramble was only 49 and in real life there was only 13 years between him and h h corbett 

see you later undertaker - in a while necrophile 

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The English language has a word "whiffling." Perhaps we should get @The Hallucinating Goose to tell us more about it. But this is what it looks like.

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Supposedly it's a means of braking when birds are travelling so fast that normal braking methods just won't do it. 

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This behaviour has not only been observed in geese, but also in various other bird species, such as the pygmy snipe, black-tailed godwit, lapwing, three species of scoter and other duck species.

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"Almost" is the longest word in English that's spelt in alphabetical order.

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when soldiers fallen corpses in the trenches were devoured by rats they would always eat the eyes first 

see you later undertaker - in a while necrophile 

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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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33 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

 

Yeah but in all fairness you’re not going to have the power of a beer filled 3am curry in astronaut rations without the danger of pebbledashing the inside of the space station. Again.  😆 

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