I am trying to figure out how cricket is played.

I tried to get someone who grew up playing cricket to talk me through the cricket game in Dorothy Sayers' Murder Must Advertise. There were nouns and verbs involved, but none of them made sense.

I like Vortex's description.

::off to buy a light floaty dress::

I find it best to assume that it's a wildly inappropriate sport based on a joke about old and painful galactic battle history.

We just came in from shooting a little archery for the first time since the winds calmed down. The SO shot from a lawn chair, so he's feeling quite chipper now. Last night he sat on the drum throne for telescope viewing. So he's not been too terribly limited by his bum leg, although I know he's unhappy about it, he really hasn't complained.

I need to replace my arrow rest. It was a crappy one that came with the bow to begin with and I never liked it. But it has bad bristle wear, so now when I set the arrow on it, it cants to the right, which, needless to say, is affecting my accuracy. I need to get it in the shop and pull the kisser button and replace the rest before the summer. I also want to up the draw weight a little.

I have watched cricket matches live, on two continents, and still am not entirely clear about how it works. (This goes both ways; we had several Indians over to watch the World Series once, and they were so confused.)

pull the kisser button

Just wanted to see out of context....

I don't need the kisser anymore!

What's the poundage of the draw, Liese?

(I understood all her archery terms! I feel smart!)

Right now it's 35 pounds, but I need to get up to 45 if I want to be hunt legal.

Does anyone else think the operations of Facebook are purely random?

A very long but cogent explanation of cricket for americans: [link]