Comments on: Monkey love

By: kevin wignall

kevin wignall — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:36:33 +0000

So you’re telling me it’s an australian monkey…

jokes aside, what’s really funny is that the pic was clearly lifted from somewhere else and just had the cricket tag attached to it!

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:30:10 +0000

Why thank you, Lady Klages! According to your source “The Monkey Cricketer” is “A story, from a 1931 story paper”. Thus confirmation that it’s from when I said it was (the 1920s or 1930s).

So, there, Kevin! The action is entirely illegal.

By: klages

klages — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:23:58 +0000

I don’t know where it’s from, but I found you someone who does:

http://ratmmjess.livejournal.com/147091.html

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:53:20 +0000

The balls fly not much slower in cricket, you know. Apparently cricketers are made of sturdier stuff than baseballers.

But, yes, the box is the first piece of cricket that every male cricketer puts on.

I can think of few cricketers I would enjoy seeing in bumless chaps. *Shudders*

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:20:12 +0000

Broad strokes, Mr Moles, broad strokes.

By: veejane

veejane — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:48:41 +0000

You’re telling me there’s no naked baseball?

Baseball involves 90 m.p.h. balls being thrown at men’s… balls. So, even if he is not wearing pants, he is likely to wear armor for the squishy regions of his body.

Although I would die of laughter to see jockstraps-only baseball, I think that if you are going to involve jockstraps you basically have to involve buttless chaps.

Which I would totally endorse!!

By: David Moles

David Moles — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:55:27 +0000

Also, I believe that is an ape.

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:35:07 +0000

Veejane: naked cricket has a long and honourable tradition. You’re telling me there’s no naked baseball?

Kevin: You reckon it’s that old? I was thinking it was from the twenties or thirties. Plus he’s hurling with one hand while he has another ball in the other. That ain’t right.

By: Kevin Wignall

Kevin Wignall — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:16:11 +0000

His bowling action might look suspect now but until the late nineteenth century the bowler wasn’t allowed to raise his arm above shoulder height, though throwing still wasn’t allowed.

On the other hand, there’s some obvious tampering going on and he’s using more than one ball!

By: veejane

veejane — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:17:22 +0000

I am still working on the part where wildebeest — cinghiale? peccaries? — can get together a whole team for cricket.

Also, they are competing in the nude.