Tegan Jovanka from Australia was about as close as he's gotten to SE Asia.
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
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Kathy A - Apr 26, 2010 2:01:36 pm PDT #7957 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
§ ita § - Apr 26, 2010 2:01:47 pm PDT #7958 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't they have tests that go on for days?
They have matches that go on for days. Tests are series of matches. That's how hard core they roll. And they break for tea.
Sue - Apr 26, 2010 2:51:04 pm PDT #7959 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I say cricket is like Coronation Street. Takes a long time for a story to roll out, but those who like it are fanatical about it.
Jessica - Apr 26, 2010 2:52:53 pm PDT #7960 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
When I want football or hockey (read: urgency and adrenaline), I watch "Kidnapped" or "Damages".
This one works double because I find both football AND Damages to be far to convoluted to watch!
Cricket - neverending games with esoteric rules and tea breaks, largely ignored by Americans? Sounds like classic Who to me.
javachik - Apr 26, 2010 2:54:28 pm PDT #7961 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
(I'm loving this. I am sorry to all of you who hate all sports, though.)
amych - Apr 26, 2010 2:54:37 pm PDT #7962 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Football is about urgency? I thought it was about the importance of taking frequent breaks.
Amy - Apr 26, 2010 2:57:52 pm PDT #7963 of 30000
Because books.
"All fall down, all get up."
Kathy A - Apr 26, 2010 3:02:47 pm PDT #7964 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Cricket - neverending games with esoteric rules and tea breaks, largely ignored by Americans? Sounds like classic Who to me.
The Fifth Doctor's costume was a cricket uniform, after all.
tommyrot - Apr 26, 2010 3:04:45 pm PDT #7965 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I love how in the HHGthG books, cricket was why all alien races avoided contact with humans (the game is considered deeply offensive).
billytea - Apr 26, 2010 3:05:20 pm PDT #7966 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
That kind of crossed my mind. Has he ever had a companion from southeast Asia?
What's the South-East Asia connection? If you're on the cricket analogy, that's big in South Asia, not SE. The Eighth Doctor had a companion in the novels, Anji Kapoor, of Indian descent. She was from London though.
Cricket - neverending games with esoteric rules and tea breaks, largely ignored by Americans? Sounds like classic Who to me.
Plus, a classic Who adventure stretched over days.