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Isn't it about time we had a Meaningless Chit Chat thread?

― tailender (tailender), Sunday, 23 November 2003 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

OK.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 23 November 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I made a response to your trivia question.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 23 November 2003 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I noticed.

Wish someone would get serious about it, though. It was a serious question.

― tailender (tailender), Sunday, 23 November 2003 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Too late I fear.

If you want a serious guess I'll nominate Ray Illingworth.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 23 November 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Much too late. This was someone around a lot earlier. Didn't play at the highest level, either.

But very well known amongst the cognoscenti.

― tailender (tailender), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Well known as a cricketer?

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Very well known for a connection to cricket.

― tailender (tailender), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Not John Arlott, please!?

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

No, but you're getting towards the right sort of connection . . .

― tailender (tailender), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd just love it to be that self-righteous git E.W. Swanton.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

No. :-)

Reason I put it up is 'cause it sounded so out of character for his public image.

― tailender (tailender), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

A spin bowler, didn't play for England, had media career a while ago.....is this bloke still alive?

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

Spent a bit of time in Aus, but went back to Pommyland around '46. Not entirely sure, but I think he died 1960ish.

― tailender (tailender), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Neville Cardus is only listed in Wisden's 'Births and Deaths' as a writer, not as a player...I know it's not him but am I getting any warmer?

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Right era.

Right style.

Right name.

He played a bit of local stuff in his late teens/early 20s, but got side-tracked by other things, and then sort of slipped sideways into journalism.

― tailender (tailender), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Like most good journo's today.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

At least he could write.

Though he did pull the occasional boner. Later in the same book there's a line about him "lying prone on one's back".

― tailender (tailender), Sunday, 23 November 2003 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps he was lying prone on someone else's back Taily ??

― pieman (pieman), Monday, 24 November 2003 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I really didn't need that image just at the moment Pieman.

In fact I can't imagine a moment I would.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 24 November 2003 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

if that's the young lady's preferred position, Fred, why argue ...

In Neville's case, though, I agree, probably not a young lady

― pieman (pieman), Monday, 24 November 2003 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I was wondering about that while reading the book.

He was married, but that's no guarantee . . .

Does come across as being a misogynistic little *********. Likeable apart from that, though.

― tailender (tailender), Monday, 24 November 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Tails, are you sure 9 was the right number of asterisks? All the words I could think of that might have fitted have 8, 10 or 12 letters.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 24 November 2003 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It's in Polish.

― tailender (tailender), Monday, 24 November 2003 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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