Thanks for the video. Helps us folks from the U.S. understand why we came home with a cricket bat when we were in England with our parents as a teenager.

Londoners think Northern English people are barbarians, though we're the nicest people you could want to meet. Traditions are important, but times change and the world moves on. Haven't been on a horse for about 30 years myself.

"RonB" Nada. Regrettably, ditto. I got to house-sit for a month. From having no TV, suddenly I had lebenty-leben satellite channels, and there was, lessee... England v SA cricket tests, Tri-Nations rugby, F1 Hockenheimring and

Okay, I'll stop listening to Steve Earle's music now... EXT. COUNTRY ROAD MORNING The sun is low on the horizon. Viewed from the air, a straight, two lane highway cuts its way through an unending field of yellow flowers. It abruptly ends

Imagine you're in charge of a network. You've stockpiled some episodes of this and that, but you know by mid-December ... and get back to the business of keeping your network's parent company happy with a return to something like

2) There is some dialogue, or a character talking about one thing, and another overlapping voice talking about something else. E.g. A conversation at a dinner table while the radio or TV announces some important breaking news. I was going to

I hate to be the spanner in the works here, but this subject is near and dear to my heart. ... (don't get me wrong), but the prejudice is much stronger against Those Who Have Come From Across The Great Waters. I still maintain that our

So how do fans of cricket or football show their ... onto the playing field is another favorite method, over here.) I've heard big crowds in Europe *whistle* to show disapproval it's a real culture clash to be an American and hear that.

Many thanks to all that provided enlightenment; we hadn't realized ... childish anyway. (More usually, the word "Shame!" will be shouted.)) So how do fans of cricket or football show their disapproval, over there? (In addition to

(Note cross-posts and follow-up) My partner was given a desk calendar as a little Christmas gift, where each day's page ... anyone enlighten us, please? (1) Well, nothing more stupid than the idea of grown men playing what is essentially