Klasse, Mensch, klasse!
Sadly, I think his last name is actually Klesse (looking at other sources).
TIL that not only is there a Santa Barbara Cricket Club but that it was founded in 1921.
You can learn all about cricket by reading the Brigadier Gerard stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In particular, “How the Brigadier Triumphed in England”. It’s avaiilabe at archive.org.
From the story “It is a brave pastime, a game for soldiers, for each tries to strike the other with the ball, and it is but a small stick with which you may ward it off.”
I’ve done business in or been to places that have a big British influence and have watched cricket on tv while I was there. I’m sure that I miss some subtleties but it takes me about half an hour to figure out the basics. I was also disappointed by the Hitchhiker book that ended up being a cricket pun at the end.
The Hollywood Cricket Club was founded in 1932 by British actor and cricketer C. Aubrey Smith.
Notable members included David Niven, Laurence Olivier, P. G. Wodehouse and Cary Grant.
Well yeah. We have a big inter league rivalry.
It’s an invasive pest in Melbourne too, but it’s a protected species here.
Melbourne was possum-free until the 70’s, because they live in your roof, piss on your ceiling, and eat the fruit from your backyard. In 1975 they became protected, and re-colonized Melbourne from the outer suburbs.
For a moment there, I thought this was still about cricket (not my game, I did rowing instead)
I just found out that Minnesota, Georgia, and Ohio issue special license plates for cars of drivers with a history of DUI convictions.
And what is the difference to a normal plate? A print of “Caution: this driver might be drunk”? A special color?
In Ohio, it’s a yellow plate with red lettering. I don’t know about the other states.
Is this intended to warn other drivers or is it punishment by public shaming?
Both.
Are the plate letters scarlet, by chance?
And could I get a custom plate that was just a scarlet “A?”
I can imagine a disabled plate in yellow with red lettering for drunks who crashed and caused themselves a disability.
Huh, I thought those were more widespread.
They’re also completely plain, aside from the letters/numbers. No background image, no state motto, nothing.
There’s a proposed CA bill that repeat DUI offenders have to use an ID card that designates them for no alcohol sales.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article314677241.html
I live in California and I haven’t been carded in thirty years. Might work (for awhile) for very young offenders, though.