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Crying with laughter

I’m crying with laughter having just watched this alternate trailer created for The Shining.

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20/20 in a maths quiz

How smart are you?

I never failed to score perfect marks on maths quizzes at school so it didn’t surprise me that I scored 20/20 here. I still don’t understand why people just don’t see mathematical equations the same as me, the answers appear so obvious to my eyes. My mathematics teachers would always tell me to put my ‘workings out’ on the exam papers when answering the questions as I’d score marks up to the point I made the mistake, seemed irrelevant to me.

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Serendipity

It’s funny what you discover when you have a day off and see television programs you don’t normally watch. I learned today through Newsround that Scotland have won the World Elephant Polo Championship for the second time running.

I never knew that there was such a thing as the World Championship in the sport of Elephant Polo let alone that Scotland had a world beating team in it.

I think it is wonderful.

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Worthy winners

The England cricket team were worthy winners of The Ashes having outplayed the Australians in each match since the first one at Lords which they lost. We mustn’t forget the England women’s team either who also triumphed over the Australians in their Ashes Test series earlier this summer.

Both teams were celebrating their wins in a parade through London.

England’s cricketers were given a rapturous reception in Trafalgar Square at the end of the Ashes victory parade to celebrate their win over Australia.

Captain Michael Vaughan thanked the “fantastic” thronging crowd and admitted: “This is beyond a dream.”

The team later enjoyed a Downing Street reception and went to Lord’s to hand over the Ashes urn for safe-keeping.

England beat Australia in a series for the first time since 1987 after drawing the final Test at The Oval on Monday.

“It’s been a long night,” said Vaughan, who clasped the replica Ashes urn throughout the celebrations. “We’ve celebrated in true English fashion and this is incredible.

I almost wish it wasn’t over I’d love to see many more matches of the quality we’ve had this year. In fact given that the matches will no longer be shown on terrestrial TV following Sky buying the rights I wonder if I’ll ever watch test cricket again.

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In Affectionate Remembrance of AUSTRALIAN CRICKET

In Affectionate Remembrance of AUSTRALIAN CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 12th SEPTEMBER, 2005, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P.

N.B. — The body will be cremated and the ashes will be taken back from the Aussie bastards.”

It’s all over the match was drawn and the Ashes were won by England for the first time in 18 years.

Such a small thing it is to get so worked up over ain’t it.

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Bad light

I think that the Aussies chances of retaining the Ashes have been scuppered by bad light and the bowling of Andrew Flintoff and Matthew Hoggard. They failed to turn they excellent 277-2 into a decent score and the bad light allowed the England batsman to choose not to play.

So into the final day and Australia are faced with the daunting task of bowling out England quick enough that they have enough overs remaining in which to beat the English run total.

They have the bowlers to do it certainly but will their drive to get wickets cause them to give away runs and thus increase the total necessary once they’re into their batting innings to take the victory. It is a fine balance they need to take, as it is for England also who are faced with the decision of batting carefully but not getting runs or getting the runs but risking their wickets.

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The New Guardian

The Guardian newspaper has changed it’s format and updated the way it presents the various sections in the paper. It is now in the Berliner format that is popular in Europe that is a midsize between Tabloid and Broadsheet, curiously no newspapers in Berlin are printed in the Berliner format.

I’m usually quite wary of change but I like this new format and I think the new masthead is far better than the old one which appeared very eighties to me. Now I feel that the print edition has caught up with the excellent Guardian website.

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The Ashes question

Here we are at the Oval for the fifth and final test match of the Ashes series and Australia would seem to be in a dominant position with a score at the start of the fourth day of 277-2 in reply to England’s 373 all out.

But the Australians still have a lot to do in order to win this match. They are still trailing by about 100 runs and so would need to be scoring another 300 runs in this innings in order to get a decent total in which to bowl England out in.

I think it will ultimately come down to a lack of time to finish the job, what with the interruptions by the weather. But there is still a lot of cricket to be played here in the final two days so anything could happen.

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