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25 Comments (+0 »)

TManPsycho

2011-11-14 09:51:07 AM

Further proof that they may have invented the language, but they no longer speak it.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian

2011-11-14 09:52:33 AM

English mutherfarker, do the English even speak it?

Notabunny

2011-11-14 09:52:53 AM

Degenerate Monkey

2011-11-14 09:56:04 AM

He was Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1988. Ex-England Test captain Tony Greig said Roebuck's death "leaves the grass less green and cricket without its most effective investigative journalist."

Perhaps this fact explains why the article lacks anything that might resemble a useful detail.

Pert

2011-11-14 09:57:22 AM

"In 2001 Roebuck received a suspended jail sentence ...for punishing with a cane or bat three young South African cricketers he had been coaching. ''Obviously I misjudged the mood..." he said.

I'll say!

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Cheron

2011-11-14 10:02:22 AM

Headline is perfect, it makes as much sense as cricket.

Pinko_Commie

2011-11-14 10:04:38 AM

Sun headlines are a particularly weird subset of British English language. You have to have grown up with them to be able to parse them correctly.

"Sex Quiz cricket ace in hotel suicide leap" has to be read as "A chap who is rather good at the game of cricket [cricket ace], who was involved in an investigation over sexual misconduct allegations [sex quiz], has commited suicide by jumping off of a hotel [hotel suicide leap]"

It becomes second nature after 10 or 20 years.

medius

2011-11-14 10:07:53 AM

sex quiz, hot shot

cbackous

2011-11-14 10:17:34 AM

medius: sex quiz, hot shot

shoot the..... hostage?

tothekor

2011-11-14 10:20:13 AM

Cheron: Headline is perfect, it makes as much sense as cricket.

Rapheal: Cricket? Cricket? Nobody understands cricket! You have to know what a krumpet is to understand cricket!

brandied

2011-11-14 10:26:08 AM

Yeah, that's right guys - give a worthless gift in hopes of sex.

brandied

2011-11-14 10:26:43 AM

Oops - wrong thread.

windsor114

2011-11-14 10:28:42 AM

Please don't judge all Brits by those who write (& read) The Sun newspaper. Some of us prefer to not read or write at all..

dletter

2011-11-14 10:29:12 AM

Let's see if we can rearrange that into something remotely meaningful.....

Hotel suicide leap for Cricket ace in sex quiz.

I had to add "for" though. And I'd replace "quiz" with "inquiry". "Sex quiz" sounds like he was a contestant on some Dr. Ruth game show or something.

PhotoCindy

2011-11-14 10:41:48 AM

Sex Quiz Cricket Ace Donnie Smith?

NutznGum

2011-11-14 10:49:33 AM

I know what each of those words mean but....

/word salad

rjakobi

2011-11-14 11:00:42 AM

I volunteer to be the next Sun headline writer. *ahem*

Super Mum Banger In Mash With Biz Crumpet With Penis Penis Penis

I expect my royalties to be paid in Mars bars.

Doctor_TeethMD

2011-11-14 11:09:01 AM

Yes, but did the purple monkey dishwasher push him?

NutznGum

2011-11-14 11:11:56 AM

You could make a more coherent headline with Mad Libs.

Unauthorized Bratwurst

2011-11-14 11:15:25 AM

Is it any worse than Sticks Nix Hick Pix?

Or, for that matter, "Dwarf Rapes Nun, Flees In UFO"?

(Okay, so that last one wasn't a real headline, but it should be.)

Pert

2011-11-14 11:16:57 AM

It's perfectly ordinary banter, Squiffy. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.

NutznGum

2011-11-14 11:38:39 AM

cbackous: medius: sex quiz, hot shot

shoot the..... hostage?

Shoot on...the hostage?

LordSunder

2011-11-14 12:01:46 PM

Oh.. I thought maybe subby was inferring that the SAS had someing to do with the man's "suicide".

offmymeds

2011-11-14 12:27:17 PM

The former Somerset captain, 55, was being quizzed in his room by cops probing sex crimes, said some reports.

Is that anything like Fark's weird news quiz?

travisl

2011-11-14 07:20:59 PM

"Sex quiz"? 92 points on a triple word score, plus 50 for all seven letters.

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