Volleyball does not have a time limit either. I have seen some pretty long matches between good teams. I also do not think any time limits are imposed in gymnastics, tho’ I could be wrong – it is not my favorite sport in the world.
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The longest game I ever saw was an NHL playoff game – I watched from 5:30 pm MDT until 3:30am MDT – In the playoffs, if the two teams are tied at the end of regulation play, over time peroids of 20 min each are played until a team scores. This led the particular game I watched going into 6 overtime peroids I believe. Actual playing time was approx 180 minutes…
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I like strawberries in my fruit salad, but not in salad salad. If you know what I mean.
perhaps I wasn’t clear enough in my original comment - I’m not talking about time, so much as “the end.”
some games go on for a long time when there’s a tie, but that’s exceptional. Games like snooker and darts and curling have a fixed number of balls, darts, stones to throw.
I meant that in baseball and cricket, someone can be winning by a large margin, and just keep on playing and playing and playing, and the other side nevber gets a chance to take over.
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Most cricket games last 4 or 5 days
“I shot the sherrif, I shot the deputy too. No, it wasn’t in self defense. They both looked at me cockeyed so I capped 'em. Then I shot the mayor, then the firechief, decapitated the librarian, impaled the dog catcher, used a spoon to remove the groundskeepers eyes and sent the leader of the local KKK in full KKK uniform to downtown Manhattan. Then I made sweet love to the sexy 18 yr old intern, and it was all good.”
Alas, my schedule did not permit - I got in late Friday night and had two parties, and then first thing Saturday morning I headed out to Easthampton on Long Island for the third (which I believe was the night of the get-together). I came back to Manhattan Sunday afternoon and went straight back home to Philadelphia. If I had been able to, I definitely would have come. 
Plus, as The Peyote Coyote said:
One of those two times did happen Saturday night, with an old friend, so… 
And no part of the weekend involved football, baseball, cricket, strawberries or woodworking (well, not in the traditional sense, I suppose).
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Alas, my schedule did not permit - I got in late Friday night and had two parties, and then first thing Saturday morning I headed out to Easthampton on Long Island for the third (which I believe was the night of the get-together). I came back to Manhattan Sunday afternoon and went straight back home to Philadelphia. If I had been able to, I definitely would have come.
Plus, as The Peyote Coyote said:
One of those two times did happen Saturday night, with an old friend, so…
And no part of the weekend involved football, baseball, cricket, strawberries or woodworking (well, not in the traditional sense, I suppose).
Esprix
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Sometimes myself and a few friends will bicycle over to York pretend we are locals and give duff information to the tourists-
maybe some of you guys have wondered why you got lost over in the UK.