Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]India or Pakistan? Lots of cricket over there. > From: Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 08:44:18 -0700 (PDT) > To: lug@leica-users.org > Subject: [Leica] The Commonwealth, Cricket, &c. > > Henning wrote: > >> If cricket playing and not drinking coffee is part of being in, then >> count me out! > >> What is cricket about, anyway?? (No, please dont' tell me!) > >> Vancouver Island and Victoria might be a bit more Commonwealth, but >> Vancouver is definitely less so. > > This weekend, I actually saw a bunch of guys playing cricket. In a > public park in my humble little just-north-of-Seattle suburb. It is > the first time I have ever seen anyone play cricket in the U.S. save > for a formal demonstration. > > They players were fairly dark-skinned black guys, and they were speaking a > language I could not identify from a distance, but it was not English. > Would anyone have any idea where they might be from? I asked an Ethiopian > lady I know, but I think she confused cricket with croquet. > > --Peter > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >