At the beginning of time, there was a group of youngish males who lived in Berlin , West Germany .  This city, one could called it "the walled City" was to become, in the opinion of these youngish males, the center of World Cricket, a sport not known, or little known in Germany as a whole, and West Berlin in particular. In it's way, our version certainly DID become the center of World Cricket, but not the accepted version! The reason was simple. We had no balls , and it's difficult to play cricket with no balls! We had tried all sorts, golf balls , plastic "boules", tennis balls and anything else remotely resembling a ball, but had no success. The reason for this penury in Cricket Balls was simple.  Unlike elsewhere in the World, if the batsman hit the ball over the boundary, nobody cheered - everybody groaned. Any boundary, in particular a 6, meant that in general the ball was lost! Attempts were made, regularly, to go around to the neighbour co...

a few amusing news articles........ From time to time some interesting news headlines, edited and presented by (iwmpop) mr le marquis, together with a little logiciel of something or other, for your use! This time it's a "food value calculator....... *******  It appears that a Priest was sent off in a recent football match for throwing his shirt at the referee. Good job they weren't playing in full flowing dress, or mr. le Cure may have found himself standing in his "undies" - or worse! The supporters would have been in 7th heaven..! *********** re-usable and re-cyclable ...... - it's the modern way...! Did you know that during the D-Day landings, the disembarking troops used Condoms to cover the barrels of their rifles, to stop the sea water from getting down the barrel! Must have been French dimension condoms, considering the "thinnish" size of a rifle barrel!  Different usage, condoms to stop unwanted  things getting in, rathe...

  History is being (re) written.... "Patrick Shaugnessy Barak O'Bama" - descendant of a long line of Irish notables..... If I get it right, the gentleman is going to meet his "great-great-great Grandfather's Irish descendants" - and with the Irish habits of reproduction, THAT risks being an awful lot of people.........Mind you -      the resemblances are striking. In many ways. Don't you think....? I bet you never knew that he is related to  mr le marquis (iwmpop) as well....As I understand it, it dates from sometime in the distant past, something to do with Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel.....I'll have to investigate that.....!