Re: HVAC Is Gay {was: Re: Metric System Is Gay}

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> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:27:49 +0100, "Alex W." <ingilt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the trouble of explaining all that :-)
>
> I was under the impression that marking prices in
> guineas was a nice way to make them look smaller
> (especially in those expensive shops :-)
>
>>Two and five guinea coins
>>belong to an earlier age.
>>
> I don't think that I saw any guinea coins, ever.
> So I might not be as old as I think ...
>
>>Got that?
>>Quite simple really....
>>
> Now that you explained it so well :-)
>
>>Now, can I tell you about cricket?
>>
> I learnt some cricket rules in NZ, but yes why not :-)
> Let's try :>

Cricket comprises a game played by 11 men a side (though the women's game
is 
coming along nicely, too).  The object is to score more runs than the 
opposing team.  The team that does this are the winners.  I'm not going
too 
fast for you, am I?

Now for the basic rules:

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.  Each man that's in
the 
side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man
goes 
in until he's out.  When they are all out, the side that's out comes in
and 
the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. 
Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, 
the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and 
the next man in goes out and goes in.  There are two men called umpires
who 
stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have

been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not

out, that is the end of the game!

Major international matches between countries, called Test Matches, always

have two innings per side, so that each team goes in and can be all out 
twice.  These games often go on for five days; when played in England,
they
traditionally end in a draw with no result decided because of rain.

(This is why, of course, Americans find the game of cricket totally 
incomprehensible and also why far more people around the world play
cricket 
than play baseball! So take that, uncouth Yanks, neener neener).

Cricket should not be confsued with baseball, an American version of a
s****t 
known elsewhere in the world as "Rounders" played exclusively by little 
girls.

And yes, it's true, they do stop playing for lunch and tea.