Spain vs. Germany on Sunday - Page 4

zelda_pinwheel · 07-05-2008, 10:35 AM

thanks sparrow, there's still plenty to wonder about but i think i'll be slightly less mystified by the adventures of mike and psmith now.

Sparrow · 07-05-2008, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

thanks sparrow, there's still plenty to wonder about but i think i'll be slightly less mystified by the adventures of mike and psmith now.

It's more the culture of cricket, rather than the intricacies of its laws that matters. Wodehouse came from a public (fee paying) school background which saw sport as a way of moulding boys' characters for later life. He always followed his old school's sporting results; - his characters' proficiency, and conduct, at sport says a lot about them.

Henry Newbolt's poem "Vitai Lampada" shows how ingrained this view was at the time, especially with regard to cricket.
http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/i...ces/vitai.html

HarryT · 07-05-2008, 11:13 AM

As indeed does the Duke of Wellington's comment that "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton".

zelda_pinwheel · 07-05-2008, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

It's more the culture of cricket, rather than the intricacies of its laws that matters. Wodehouse came from a public (fee paying) school background which saw sport as a way of moulding boys' characters for later life. He always followed his old school's sporting results; - his characters' proficiency, and conduct, at sport says a lot about them.

Henry Newbolt's poem "Vitai Lampada" shows how ingrained this view was at the time, especially with regard to cricket.
http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/i...ces/vitai.html

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Originally Posted by HarryT

As indeed does the Duke of Wellington's comment that "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton".

thanks for the poem, sparrow. i do know that cricket has (had ?) a huge cultural importance in english culture, to the point for example of using the expression "it's not cricket" to express strong condemnation, and i admit to being somewhat awed (and mystified...) by this strange transcendent aura that the sport takes on. i suspect that i'll never quite grasp it, not having grown up with it, but i try to understand it to the extent that it's possible from the outside, when i'm reading about it...

GeoffC · 07-07-2008, 05:00 AM

OK - that's cricket done, now could someone explain baseball to me please...

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zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	thanks sparrow, there's still plenty to wonder about but i think i'll be slightly less mystified by the adventures of mike and psmith now.

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HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	As indeed does the Duke of Wellington's comment that "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton".

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GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	OK - that's cricket done, now could someone explain baseball to me please...

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