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@moses815 - C'mon, whoever heard of a successful act with three stooges in it? ;)

@weatherallc05 - no reason for the bowler not to use the footmarks! Crazy exaggerated movement so neither the batsman nor the bowler knows what the ball's going to do, but the batsman has to be lucky every time - the bowler only has to be lucky once. It's almost unfair really, except that it's on...

@righteousrobbo - And yet one or two other countries have not been cut off from international sport, if only because their military dictatorship was only a case of brown people oppressing brown people rather than white oppressing black. Not everything's lovely in Zimbabwe these days, but again, t...

Stop lengths are quoted in feet, in powers of 2, so a 128ft stop is 2 octaves below a 32-footer, in its own turn two octaves below default (8ft) register. Does Germany use a different sign for feet than English-speaking countries?

@FlyingLineman, a capacitor has two charged plates with a very small gap between them - the larger the plates and the smaller the gap, the bigger the capacitance (obviously, too small a gap can lead to breakdown though allowing the capacitor to short out). Since a heli doesn't have the two plates...

Thanks for this, looks like a great little plane. "Mk VI" is pronounced "Mark Six", this was the commonest fighter-bomber version of the Mossie which could carry 500lb or even 1000lb of bombs in addition to four nose .303s (as on the model!) and four under-nose 20mm autocannon. Sometimes they gav...

Take that, you pie-eating pie-chucking walrus-moustached son of a sheep-shearer!

@youandyamum - three series out of the last four; Australia are yesterday's men now, three innings defeats in their own backyard in a single series. PALATR.

Oh look, a pig-ignorant American lecturing us about what those wacky Brits are up to... and wouldn't you know, turns out the Brits have never heard of it.

Quite right, aj7689. You had Kapil Dev who was world class, and then who shared the new ball with him? Manoj Prabharkar. Good on Manoj for doing the hard work, but it's like they used to say about the NZ team at the same time with Richard Hadlee: it was like facing Dennis Lillee at one end and th...

No, as soon as the catch is good there can be no run-out.

Not a record though - something similar happened in an England - Australia Test in the 1970s. A single, a wild return for two overthrows, a still wilder return for another four. The umpires tried to communicate this to the scorers with a sequence of signals - "four - four - one short". :)