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Cricket - what's THAT all about?
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18/08/2005 20:07:22
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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>>>>>Don't forget the 2 cross-pieces, the bails!
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>>>>Which you, obviously, can use to get someone out of jail until trial. I'm amazed at the weird traditions of the British legal system... accepting pieces of wood for that.
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>>>Sometimes I think you must be a member of a new species of human: Homo Nym :-)
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>>Homo homini homonym.
>
>What's that about? I know it's latin but what's your point?

It's a chapter from one very funny book (named, aptly, "Everythinger", or whatever's the name of the copybook that kids usually have with specific purpose of writing odds and ends into it), dedicated to what homonyms we have. Though our language is extremely poor in homonyms, it's possible to create puns by changing one sound in a word form and it becomes a form of another word. Anyway, the chapter title is a paraphrase of "homo homini lupus" (man to man [is] a wolf).

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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