Comments on: Paul Collingwood goes one better than at Cardiff

By: The Dawg

The Dawg — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:51:13 +0000

This is brilliant. I may bookmark and read every day I feel bored. I think you’ve just made the Pangolin up and then made up loads of internet sites about it to convince me it’s true.

By: Mahinda

Mahinda — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:39:00 +0000

Shame on you all for not knowing about pangolins. Next, you’ll all be feigning ignorance of capybaras.

I saw a platypus the other day. Unfortunately, it was very dead and very stuffed. It looked like a comfy slipper.

Ceci, nice poem, but wouldn’t it scan slightly better if you used the third person masculine throughout? Possibly not gender neutral enough in these crazy times, however.

By: SixSixEight

SixSixEight — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:23:10 +0000

Ged – as I have seen Graham Onions active during the day, for a full day on several occasions even, I feel safe in saying that I don’t think he is related to the anal sent gland clade of beasts…. as for KC….

I can see Chris Martin wielding a ‘Pangolin’ bat

Have we decided who should be flying our spy plane yet?

By: Jo Fitz

Jo Fitz — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:28:02 +0000

If the makers of “the Mongoose” made “The Pangolin”, what sort of bat would it be and who would use it?

By: miriam

miriam — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:02:12 +0000

I’d never heard of a pangolin before this post. And there I was thinking I knew animals!

By: e normous

e normous — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:30:04 +0000

ok really, why isn’t Morgan in the test team?

By: alex

alex — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:17:24 +0000

Two minutes ago, I was utterly unaware of the pangolin’s existence.
Now, not only do I have a vague idea of what it looks like and what it does, but I also know a brilliant poem about one.
Who knew, when I woke up, what a brilliant day this would turn out to be?

By: Ged

Ged — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:08:35 +0000

So are you trying to tell us that Graham Onions has anal scent glands?

I’ve successfully washed those brown trousers I was wearing yesterday, btw, in case anyone wanted to know that.

It’s breakfast time, here on King Cricket. Next up, Pepe Le Pew.

By: SixSixEight

SixSixEight — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:56:48 +0000

Surely the person least qualified to deliver in this test was Bell – thank heavens he wasn’t batting at 11?

Yes, a pangolin is not going to land your spy plane as it spends most of its time asleep. If you try and wake it up and it does not like you it will roll into an imitation pine cone – catch 22 – it aint going to land your plane – no sir! But I feel you are being as unfair to the noble pangolin’s reputation as most people routinely were to Mr Collingwood. Pangolins have anal scent glands, just like cats and dogs, [I don’t see you doing down the carnivorous types for acid excretion.]

They aren’t quite skunks but nice poem Ceci

By: Sandeep K

Sandeep K — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:07:46 +0000

A lot of my English friends used to tell me, Ian Bell is genuine class and Collingwood hitting a Double century in Australia was the worst thing that happened to English cricket in the past decade as it established that no good player as an England batsman, funny I don’t see them around much these days..