Welcome Auld Manriva!!!!

[Corki]

Well, most Americans I have spoked to in the past haven't had a clue...

[MsDanya]

well, they are American

 

i rest my case

[Lanthirrhos]

i like cricket! I've even played it! jeez! where have these ppl been?!

 

Lol! miss! that's funny! :lol:

[goldeneyes05]

ok ok i get it im not freakin european but who always kicks tail in the olypics :p

[Lanthirrhos]

China... :lol:

[Corki]

or Australia...

[Lanthirrhos]

*high fives Corki*

[Corki]

*high fives 12th back*

[Auld Manriva]

I'm so glad i've provided you all with a new spam thread :D .Makes my old heart go thumpity thump.

 

Who cares if we can,t play kick the ball around the tall guy? We'll just go get some rich robber baron to go hire some ex-pat euros and a swell coach to mumble stuff on the sideline.

 

Aussies, they got webs between their fingers...don't they :P

[Lanthirrhos]

Corki started spamming with his Cricketness...

[Auld Manriva]

No prob 12th :lol:

Actually base.uh.ball came from crickit. Old Abner Doubleday just thought we needed it sped up a bit. A crickit match can go on for days..Right Corki?

[F Horn of Valere]

lol and yet some of us still think it is too slow... lol

[Lanthirrhos]

aye... :D

[Corki]

Yeap, a cricket match can go on for 5 days, AND there is the chance of having a draw after that period of time!

[Lanthirrhos]

:P no draws! please no draws! let it be merciful and quick!

[Corki]

It's called 20Twenty cricket, which is smash and crash cricket, with a result in an evening! It is much fun to watch!

[Lanthirrhos]

:P i want to play... :(

[Auld Manriva]

We're not on topic here soooo.Check out a book by Bernard Cornwell called "The Gallows Thief". post Waterloo England(circa 1816). A returned vet who is an ace cricket player, becomes a sort of bounty hunter but HE tries to get a condemned (unjustly) thief off. sub plot has him as a ringer cricketeer, who all these Lords bet on when he plays or somesuch.

 

Required reading for Banders: Cornwells' Grail Quest books. The Archers Tale,Vagabond and Heretic.13th century(Hundred years war) England and France.EXTREMELY US. Young English Longbowman signs on in France. Cavalry charges, infantry melees and ARCHERS galore. The battles scenes you can smell. End of Rant :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

[Corki]

Sounds like a good idea once I have finished my current pile of books to read! lol! Which means I need to get back to reading Malory's Morte d'Arthur...

 

Have you read Cornwell's Arthurian Series?? I can't remember the name of the 3 books, but I thoroughly enjoyed those!

[Lanthirrhos]

:lol: Why'd you have to wait until after i went and bought 15 new books... not to mention that i have old ones that i need to read again! :roll: :lol:

[Auld Manriva]

The Warlord Chronicles..Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur..

 

Most excellent. Before our time, AoL maybe..5th century post Roman Britain..Arthur as he most likely was.

Again Battle scenes(multitudes) sensory feasts. Lemme clean this froth from around my mouth :shock: All the steel bangin fans'll eat this stuff up. and its not fantasy..Historical Fiction

[Lanthirrhos]

Camulod Chronicles for me...

[Auld Manriva]

I'm not familiar with that one 12th.

[Lanthirrhos]

By Jack Whyte. Its not Fantasy either. But instead about King Arthur... but the books actuall start in Roman Britan, with Merlyn's great grandfather, and Merlyn's great Uncle. It is actually an entirely plausible series about how the story could really have been... One example of the Plausibility is that Merlyn isn't a Sorceror... but it explains how he became to be thought of one... it also explains the Sword in the stone... This'll be my 11 time reading the books so....

[Auld Manriva]

Exactly! Cornwells runs that way. Arthur as a warlord of which he was one of many, Merlin is a druid priest. POV is from one of Artys' men,how he rises in stature,relates to power figures. its the daily life stuff i really enjoy. Recent arthur movie was not from cornwell though, maybe Whyte?

 

You really should try to get Archers Tale from city library and see for yourself.1300's in europe are close in culture to RL and these battles described really happened. only the names have been...blather,blather :)