The bloody songs come across as some kind of weird fetish. Is it a form of foreplay for Australian cricketers?

what is it with the aussies and their bloody team song?? i swear they are the only nation on earth which gets more worked up about all that sort of nonsense than the americans do… doubtless something to do with the way in which the country was “founded”, but still… none of the current crop are actually sons of convicts are they? what do they really have to prove? {shakes head in disbelief]

It’s also how we pronounce ‘hugely’.

I now want to hurt things.

The word ugely has only one definition: similar to “hugely”, but delivered with butterfingers.

The more scientific one is about several (most often, two) things happening at the same time or in the same place.

By the more scientific definition, Andrew McDonald replacing Andrew Symonds in the team is a coincidence.

Mike Hussey is a bit of a geek, so we might expect the more scientific use of the word coincidence from him.

Unfortunatley, the evidence also suggests that Hussey is not much of a wordsmith, so you might be right, KC, he has no real idea what some of his words might mean but tosses them about like so much confetti.

The anecdote about Andrew McDonald’s icebreaker is not only ugely revealing but is also an absolute scream. Surely worth the price of the book alone.

It now works. Brace yourselves for razor sharp, memoirs-worthy wit.