Re: A team for Maxx to salivate over

On May 27, 2:03 pm, Southpaw <arbi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 26, 9:11 pm, Bob Dubery <megap...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On May 27, 12:34 am, Southpaw <arbi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I knew for a fact that ethnicities in South Africa were among the most
complicated in the world, especially those of the Cape Coloreds (like
Ontong). Then one started following their cricket team -- including an
interview with a young fellow named Allan Donald, a fellow with a nice
Anglo name, who said he didn't speak too much English, onlyAfrikaans,
until he actually got to England. That certainly didn't help
understand RSA's complexities. I couldn't comprehend that Allan
Donald's native tongue would be anything other than English.

He spoke very little English when he made his FC debut and was
apparently not exactly a man of the world. There used to be stories
about him being packed onto some plane with a note to give to the
stewardess and instructions to sit in the seat he was given and stay
in it until the nice lady told him it was time to get off.

-Samarth [ would Steve Palframan be a better choice for a Useless Boer
WK than AB Devil Ears, or does he not qualify as useless and/or
Boer? ].

I think that "Boer" is a label that one choses for oneself these days.
All who do so would be Afrkaners, but not all Afrikaners do so.

Ah I see. Back to my original *cricketing* point. Assuming this is
meant as a "useless" XI of some sort - be it useless RSA XI, useless
Boer XI, or useless Afrikaner XI - my point is that it's actually not
that useless. As useless XIs go, this is a pretty darn useful side.

-Samarth.- Hide quoted text -

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I guess we will have to wait for Mike to enlighten us
on his original intent, now that even Maxx has refused
to endorse this team.

Vijay
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