I just found a copy of this book.
It’s the smallest book I’ve ever held.
It’s smaller than a sheet of toilet paper, and barely thicker.
Just a few pages of bizarrery.
It’s a very old game.
Where did you find these drugs, and why aren’t you sharing?
I’m guessing this is a Mornington Crescent kind of thing.
Not much is bizzare, mostly amusing anecdotes, so unsure where you are coming from.
Carr’s are a biscuit company, so my WAG is that this was a free gift sold with boxes of biscuits.
Cricket has been around for several centuries, but by 1890 other sports were very well established in Britain.
If true, this is funny. The horse clearly knew that Morley was a bad batsman, and that it would be expected to soon pull the roller to prepare the pitch for the other team’s innings.
The pebbles in the umpire’s coat are for counting the “overs” - every 6 balls is an over and the fielding team starts bowling from the other end.
I don’t know why batsmen would have played the ball through their legs but it must have looked hilarious.
Oh, it did
For batsmen trying to be contortionists and look as ridiculous as possible just see Younis Khan’s entire fucking career.
As collected on Tumblr http://airborneyouniskhan.tumblr.com
Charles Burbage Fry, relative to Stephen.
So what you’re saying is, there’s an alternate universe where Stephen Fry is the king of Albania? I kind of want to move there now.
OK, so apparently this is a real book of some sort, but it sure as hell reads like one of those quirky British improv games.
What manner of beast sells a free gift?
[QUOTE=Carr’s Dictionary of Extra Ordinary English Cricketers]
These books hover between a greeting and a present. They fit a common envelope and go for a minimum postage. In cold bedrooms only one hand to the wrist need suffer exposure. A distinguished novelist recommends them for reading in the bath. An ambbassador, albeit an American, claims they can be palmed from the cuff during tedious speeches and profitless sermons.
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R.D and J M Carr. There is a number to call 01284. Whence?
Also,
There’s a mention of a man in my own town who died in a collision with his colleague while running. Also, I didn’t know you could be caught when the ball had ricocheted of the batsman at the other end.
Or maybe it’s not. I can’t tell. Argh!!!
One of his relatives was also asked if he wanted to be the President of Israel when it was first founded. So there’s another alternative universe in which Stephen may have followed in the family tradition. No Blackadder, no QI, but on the plus side, no Great Indoors either.
Ok, blindboyard is making little sense, and appears unfamiliar with the concept of the “pamphlet”, but the quotes themselves are fully understandable to someone who follows cricket. Which ones are you struggling with?
A pamphlet about baseball, written in an arch humorous tone 100 years ago, would probably be equally unfathomable to people who don’t follow that game.
It’s just the humorous tone and bizarre anecdotes like somebody weeping if they sleep alone. So these are joke anecdotes or are they supposed to be true facts? (Though the Julius Caesar gives it away.) That’s what I can’t tell. Or is this a modern pamphlet written in the style of something that would have been written 100 years ago?
I mean, I feel like an idiot, because it so obviously is some type of joke or humor, but I can’t ascertain its provenance.
No, they all sound plausible enough to be anecdotes about real people. I guessed correctly that ‘natus’ is the Latin for ‘born’; it means that the man’s real name was Julius Godalming, but he was predictably given the nickname ‘Caesar’. I’m pretty sure it’s from about a century ago, otherwise there would be some more recent stories.
The Roman numerals are a nice touch, though. 1829, I think.
Oh, indeed he is a real person. Apparently real name, but born in Godalming.
Printed 1999, first edition listed as 1977.