Australian Domination

[kevin_standlee]

I've just watched Australia put the finishing touches on destroying England 5-0 to sweep the Ashes Series international cricket match. This is only the second time in the long history of this England-Australia rivalry that a team has swept the series 5-0. And Australia didn't just win, they dominated England.

While Cheryl supports England [because it's actually England & Wales], she bowed to the inevitable and gave her stuffed kangaroo a brush ("Sweep!") to hold while we watched this fifth test.

Cheryl and I split the cost of the DirectTV coverage and I got to see about half of the games, and I'm glad we did. I got to see some historic moments in cricket, and I think I now understand the attraction of the game. Oh, great, yet another sport to distract me.

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[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of the American Express commercial (don't know if it aired in the UK) where comedian Jerry Seinfeld is performing in the UK and tells a joke whose punch line is "What is this, the seventh-inning stretch?" and it falls flat because nobody gets the reference. He then goes out and tours the town (spending with his Amex) to pick up the local lingo, and we close with him giving the same joke, except the punch line is, "What is this, the tea interval?" The audience roars with laughter, and Seinfeld, in an aside to the camera, says, "I have no idea what I just said."