Grits, Yanks, bats

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:


>And BTW to non-USans: to you, "Yankee" means American. To 
us,"Yankee" means Northerner and/or Union side of the Civil War. 

Actually (imagine the accent), we use Yank, not Yankee, since most of 
us have enough nous to know that if he turns out to be a Southerner, 
he'll punch us on the nose (and we'd never be so uncouth as to refer 
to a lady as a Yank). :))

>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.

Rounders is a baseball-like game played by school-children with a 
soft ball and a short bat (and coats piled up to make the bases). 
This allows us to (a) claim we invented baseball and (b) loftily 
dismiss it as a "children's game", thereby annoying any passing Yank. 
We can then return to the "beautiful" game of cricket, safe in the 
knowledge that we were once undisputed world masters at it ... up 
until other nations started playing cricket, that is!

There is only one kind of cricket bat. And it is indeed flat on one 
side - that's the side you use for clipping cheeky fielders around 
the head ...


Wotan