Topic: Cowboy

[Rik]

Well, some think so. Others regard it as an exercise in meditation.

[Simon]

I used to regard it as an exercise in sun bathing, at school. 

[Rik]

I always avoided it at school. Small hard balls coming by way at speed was always going to be a recipe for disaster.

[Simon]

Given a choice of that or football, I opted for cricket, but stayed as far from the 'action' as possible, by fielding from a distance! 

[Rik]

I opted for athletics and went cross-country running. Where my cunning plan went wrong was that, one week they were trialling for an inter-schools competition without telling us, and I used to know a nice little shortcut so found myself in the team. Oops...

[Simon]

  I used to hate cross country as well, especially as there's wasn't much 'country' involved around South London.

The only sport I didn't mind, and was reasonably competent at, was tennis, but it wasn't usually one of the options.

[Rik]

We had football, cross country or rowing in winter, and substituted cricket for football in summer. Unless you could swim, you couldn't row, so my decision was pretty easy.

[Simon]

Yes, I couldn't swim either, and still can't!

[Rik]

I can, but only in a downwards direction.

[Simon]

[mistybear]

A cricketer.

Captain of the Australian Cricket team........  well, most of the time.

Ah, sport. 

Oh, flintoff.     

[Simon]

I'm bowled over.   

[Rik]

I wonder if a Googly has become a Google?

[Simon]

Or a bogey, a boogle?  Oh, that's golf isn't it?

[mistybear]

I think it's a "doosra" now.