"..miserable cuz her cricket team got ass-whupped by the natives. Again."
Just as I was thinking about cricket too, having seen this photo in The Economist:
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- Wisdom Weasel
- The Wisdom Weasel is an Englishman living in Rockland, Maine, having mistakenly moved to the Pine tree State in 1995 for the balmy climate.
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I think there might be a slot for GW Bush at number 8. He would fit right in with the other 'English' players: Pietersen, Strauss, Jones (1), Jones(2), and my favourite, Mudhsuden 'Monty' Panesar.
Aren't we all global citizens? Hasn't petty nationalism cost the world enough? I dream of the day when the Oxfordshire Sikh and the East Anglian Anemic can once again sit down as brothers and put aside such small differences. How does June of this year sound?
Oh and COME ON ENGLAND, Germany 06!
The picture of Bush at bat really spooks me. And where does 'Mockney' fit in with the 'Tebbit' test?
I will not speak for Mockney as he is loquacious enough on his own but I recall with glee fantastic drunken yelling about sport when we shared a house in our student days. I jolly well hope he thumbs his nose at the Tebbit test- I do over here.
Although, Mockney is a (long time, not bandwagon) Chelsea rather than an Amritsar FC fan. Sometimes conrarianism is more important than consistency.
Oh yeah, I guess I flunk the 'Tebbit' test on almost every level, unless you count the Mets.
Tebbit can stick his test up his arse.
Loquacious enough for you Weasel?
Hindustan Zindabad!
Champions!
Outstanding Mockney; I knew you'd come through for me. I wonder what the origins of the name "Tebbit" are anyway. Sounds suspiciously French to me. And the "Norman" is a dead give away. Back to Bayeux with you, Mr. Chingford polecat.
I am surprised that GWB did not take his 'clicky ba' over the Khyber and have at Johnny Talib with it: I seem to remember a series in either the Victor or Battle comic (maybe a reprint? The series seemed very anacronistic) set in Afghanistan in which a British adventurer shot at Pashtuns while his bearer hit them with his cricket bat. Any leads on the name of the series?
I'm off to google it.
Oh good lord. It was called "The Wolf of Kabul" and it was appallingly, casually racist and classist. The first issue is here.
i can't believe it, a casually racist and classist English comic.
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