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Fourth Bruce: New-Bruce will be teaching political science; Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benaud.
Second Bruce: Those are all cricketers!
Fourth Bruce: Aww, spit!
Third Bruce: Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce!
Everybruce: Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you, Amen!
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Oh yer! Tally Ho!
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Yoicks!
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Fourth Bruce: New-Bruce will be teaching political science; Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benaud.
Second Bruce: Those are all cricketers!
Fourth Bruce: Aww, spit!
Third Bruce: Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce!
Everybruce: Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you, Amen!
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The mighty Phantoms will win it.
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quote: Originally posted by Bulletproof...I Wish I Was: quote: Who will win the 2007 Domestic Twenty20 Cup?
Who will remember in a months time?
Duh! Probably only time travellers and good psychics. |
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quote: Originally posted by An Affable Polar Bear:
The mighty Phantoms will win it.
Of course they will. |
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Incidentally when i was putting the One Day nicknames into the poll, i knew them all except Surrey.
No doubt fans of some other Counties would cunningly place an 'r' somewhere in there.
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quote: Originally posted by Sprigga Wattle:
WTF is a Steelback?
The Steelbacks were a tough army regiment from Northamptonshire from 1750ish til past at least 1815(I'm not sure when overall). They were serving in the Peninsula campaign of the Napoleonic wars under Wellington who was pretty harsh to his troops. They were a disobedient lot, who were always up to 'mischeif' and Wellington ordered any sort of punishment to be a whipping or flogging. Nevertheless, they kept disobeying and kept coming back for more punishment. They were known as the Steelbacks due to their unwillingness to fall in line but mostly because not one of them flinched or cried out in pain, however much punishment they were meted out. All in all one of the weirdest names out of our OD teams, but one with one of the best stories. |
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quote: Originally posted by \(0_0)/:
Incidentally when i was putting the One Day nicknames into the poll, i knew them all except Surrey.
No doubt fans of some other Counties would cunningly place an 'r' somewhere in there.
Ahem, Yorkshire Phoenix???? |
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quote: Originally posted by Comical Smoking Monkey: quote: Originally posted by Sprigga Wattle:
WTF is a Steelback?
The Steelbacks were a tough army regiment from Northamptonshire from 1750ish til past at least 1815(I'm not sure when overall). They were serving in the Peninsula campaign of the Napoleonic wars under Wellington who was pretty harsh to his troops. They were a disobedient lot, who were always up to 'mischeif' and Wellington ordered any sort of punishment to be a whipping or flogging. Nevertheless, they kept disobeying and kept coming back for more punishment. They were known as the Steelbacks due to their unwillingness to fall in line but mostly because not one of them flinched or cried out in pain, however much punishment they were meted out. All in all one of the weirdest names out of our OD teams, but one with one of the best stories.
I prefer my reasons for the name. |
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quote: Originally posted by eowyn: quote: Originally posted by \(0_0)/:
Incidentally when i was putting the One Day nicknames into the poll, i knew them all except Surrey.
No doubt fans of some other Counties would cunningly place an 'r' somewhere in there.
Ahem, Yorkshire Phoenix????
The Yorkshire Batspiss? A shaft of gold when all around them is darkness. |
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You paint such wonderful word pictures.
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A real poetaster.
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quote: Originally posted by Comical Smoking Monkey: quote: Originally posted by Sprigga Wattle:
WTF is a Steelback?
The Steelbacks were a tough army regiment from Northamptonshire from 1750ish til past at least 1815(I'm not sure when overall). They were serving in the Peninsula campaign of the Napoleonic wars under Wellington who was pretty harsh to his troops. They were a disobedient lot, who were always up to 'mischeif' and Wellington ordered any sort of punishment to be a whipping or flogging. Nevertheless, they kept disobeying and kept coming back for more punishment. They were known as the Steelbacks due to their unwillingness to fall in line but mostly because not one of them flinched or cried out in pain, however much punishment they were meted out. All in all one of the weirdest names out of our OD teams, but one with one of the best stories.
Thanks Mangy
I've prepared for the worst case scenario ...but it could be even worse than that
Some People are like slinkies. Not really good for anything but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.
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quote: Originally posted by eowyn:
I prefer my reasons for the name.
Yorkshire should be Yorkshire Grumbling Whippetty Flat Caps. Your reasons for the name are incredibly inaccurate. It's only really Corby with the Steel industry. They're Scottish. May well be gay though. Suppose we did do alot of metalwork, but chose a better gay tune than 'Everybody Dance Now'. |
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You left out "ferrety".
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quote: Originally posted by William B.:
You left out "ferrety".
Such sexual references wouldn't be used as a 'cricketing brand'... |
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The three most powerful batting line ups are Somerset, Lancashire and Notts and I fancy one of them to win it.
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Kolpakshire , rah, rah, rah.
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quote: Originally posted by Comical Smoking Monkey: quote: Originally posted by Sprigga Wattle:
WTF is a Steelback?
The Steelbacks were a tough army regiment from Northamptonshire from 1750ish til past at least 1815(I'm not sure when overall). They were serving in the Peninsula campaign of the Napoleonic wars under Wellington who was pretty harsh to his troops. They were a disobedient lot, who were always up to 'mischeif' and Wellington ordered any sort of punishment to be a whipping or flogging. Nevertheless, they kept disobeying and kept coming back for more punishment. They were known as the Steelbacks due to their unwillingness to fall in line but mostly because not one of them flinched or cried out in pain, however much punishment they were meted out. All in all one of the weirdest names out of our OD teams, but one with one of the best stories.
They got that name because of being flogged under Wellesley's orders for stealing beehives. Alsao known as the "Honeysuckers".  |
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quote: Originally posted by William B.: They got that name because of being flogged under Wellesley's orders for stealing beehives. Alsao known as the "Honeysuckers".
No, that was one incident. There were many others as well. I've got the book with it in. Drunk on duty, getting into fights, chasing after posh birds - quite a few. The hive thing's mentioned much because it's the most strange. |
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quote: Originally posted by Master of Carpets:
The three most powerful batting line ups are Somerset, Lancashire and Notts and I fancy one of them to win it.
Not sure I agree with you there at all. I'd put Northants way, way up there in terms of powerful batting line-ups: Sales, Klusener, Wessels, Van Der Wath, Crook, Rob White all smack a massive ball and Rogers hits a pretty big ball too. That's 7 top drawer hitters... |
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But they are known as the Honeysuckers.
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quote: Originally posted by William B.:
But they are known as the Honeysuckers.
Hmmm, not the ones who got into fights instead. Or the ones trying to perk posh birds. It's not like the regiment was 4 people. At the very least it's a few hundred, fink abaat i'. |
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The 58th Foot (Northhamptonshire) Regiment, yes?
The 57th from Middlesex were also known as the steelbacks, much earlier in the mid 1700s, but became the diehards after they lost 428 out of 616 at Albuera in 1811.
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quote: Originally posted by William B.:
The 58th Foot (Northhamptonshire) Regiment, yes?
The 57th from Middlesex were also known as the steelbacks, much earlier in the mid 1700s, but became the diehards after they lost 428 out of 616 at Albuera in 1811.
Not sure to be honest... didn't take note of the exact regiment. |
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