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[realthog]

Warning: not for those of delicate sensibilities.

Just now, from Cricinfo's ball-by-ball commentary on the England v. South Africa One Day International:

Anderson to Parnell, no run, slower bouncer from Anderson, Parnell was through with his shit before the ball arrived . . .

I mean, how slow was that bouncer?

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[fledgist.livejournal.com]

As a graduate of the same university as Michael Holding, I know the following:

A young man from Barbados named Sobers, arrived at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in Jamaica, and discovered that being ragged in his first week of residence was a less-than-entirely-pleasant process. He made the mistake of wandering from civilised country (Irvine Hall) into the barbaric realm of Chancellor Hall, where the seniors, sensing fresh meat pounced on him and demanded his name. Discovering that he was named Sobers they handed him a bat and told him that he needed to face the bowling of a freshman of theirs. "Freshman Holding," they said, "bowl to freshman Sobers!" So, obediently, computer science student Michael Holding bowled to young Sobers (whom I knew, I was a third-year student in Irvine when he was a fresher). Holding, being a sensible chap, did not unleash his trademark fastballs on the hapless Sobers.