Health and Beauty ; Cricket and Rounders

[Simon]

Tesco (a UK supermarket) gives its view on the essential Heath and Beauty
products for the year:
http://users.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ian.collier/Misc/tesco.jpg


Someone seems to have killed Yahoo and ff.net - I am unable to connect to
either! Not to mention that ff.net is not sending out e-mails and I am in
the process of trying to change e-mail address for my account.


Amy: "If I may venture back onto HP, though not enough to be on HPfGU:
Simon described a beater's bat as a "rounder's bat."  Is that a cricket
thing?  Are there more than one kind of bat in cricket?  SS translates it
as "a kind of short baseball bat" (that's a paraphrase), which I took to
mean round (not flat on one side the way I picture a cricket bat) and about
2 feet long."

Rounder is nothing to do with cricket. Rounders is a sport that is fairly
similar to baseball. Rounders is played with a shorter version of a
baseball bat, same shape but about 1.5 to 2 feet (I am unsure of exact
length). If you can freeze frame the trailer then Harry is holding one of
the bats in the bottom corner, when the bludger is released. It is not too
clear, but you can see the rough shape. Picture at:
http://209.132.204.212/harry/236.jpg.


Cricket has a flat bat, with millions of rules about its size. It is of a
length to a baseball bat, but flat on one side and v shaped on the other
(this is to add a reasonable mass to the centre of the bat, without going
over the weight limit). Unlike rounders, and I believe baseball, there is
no standard size or weight for a cricket bat. The top players get them made
to their own specifications. Pictures:
http://www-uk.cricket.org/perl/picture.cgi/012364/ENG and
http://www-uk.cricket.org/perl/picture.cgi/017639/ENG give a good
indication of size and shape.


Simon

PS: the fire alarm went off, so while waiting for it to shut up (i.e. when
I was thinking of going outside as I am meant to) I was unable to get
dressed and hence cannot get to the church in time for the 10 am service.
Guess I am going to be going to the 11:30 am service and can now have some
food before I go!

PPS: Yahoo seems to be back up now.
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" Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food
groups - alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat"
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