vilakins: (dr who cricket)
Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2010-07-20 08:07 pm
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry
Entry tags:

Assorted links

For various reasons I don't want to talk about RL, so have some links snurched from various people.

Cricketing authors - how cool is that? To quote from the linked review:

Peter Pan’s First XI is a study of JM Barrie and the cricket team of dazzling literati (and not quite so dazzling sportsmen) that Barrie ran haphazardly for over 20 years.
[...]
PG Wodehouse was a useful batsman; Jerome K Jerome was rather better at idling; AA Milne liked to watch it even more than to play it; and Arthur Conan Doyle was prodigious: a superb all-rounder who played 10 games at first-class level for the MCC.
[...]
Telfer’s narrative of the team’s travails allows for pleasant asides about [...] the influence of the sport on the literature of its day. Hook, as in Captain, is obviously a cricketing term; Sherlock, as in Holmes, was a conflation of two popular 19th-century county players: Mordecai Sherwin and Frank Shacklock.
Remember my puzzled query about so many Americans knitting dish and wash cloths? Well, Lion Brand's weekly newsletter now features a wash cloth of the week.

Purr Avon, or a cat looking rather like him.

MRIs of fruit - these are gorgeous and intriguing, and well worth waiting for the images to load.

Albanian sworn virgin custom - how a very sexist and traditional society allowed women to live and be accepted as men. Hell, if they had that custom here and now, I'd have gone for it as a kid, though I think the women had to replace a lost male. The article includes interviews with several men born female. Absolutely fascinating stuff.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[identity profile] daiseechain.livejournal.com 2010-07-20 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Some very interesting links. Love the cat and the caption. Never understood the appeal of dressing up pets, myself, but he made me laugh.

The two 'men' from the village squabbling over who was stronger and more masculine also amused me. Apparently you're never too old for a feud.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2010-07-20 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't get the animals in clothes either, but that outfit was very Avonic.

I was watching Big Bang Theory last night, and Leonard had decided to learn about US footbal to fit in with Penny's friends and had bought a jersey that hung on him like a dress. He said it was the smallest except for dog sizes, to which Sheldon said that many in Texas had dressed their dogs in team colours, but that cats refused to wear sporting gear as his sister found to her cost. :-D Cats are very sensible and intelligent creatures.

That amused me too, with one disqualifying the other for having been unknowingly engaged as a child which made her a woman. Did you notice that he used the pronoun "she"? Ouch.
Flat | Top-Level Comments Only