Sebastian Palm wrote:

Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in
the side
that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes
in until
he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the
side thats
been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you
get men
still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out,
and when he
is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are
two men
called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the
men who are
in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and
both sides
have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who
are not
out, that is the end of the game!

Curious: Python or Adams? It's very Python in style, but Adams was the one
who had cricket featured in his books...

Neither Python nor Adams; it's a old chestnut that goes back at least
30-40 years.  I know I've seen an attribution for it, but I'm having
trouble googling one (no trouble googling the joke itself, but nobody
seems to want to give an attribution).  A lot of tourist gift shops
in England sell tea towels with the passage printed on it, which is
how I first saw it; my grandmother had one.  It tickled me immensely
at the time and it's always stuck with me.


Chris Mattern

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