Comments on: What is a fair Test pitch? Aussie pundits grapple with seemingly unanswerable question

By: JB

JB — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 22:12:29 +0000

Kenny sounds like an ideal candidate to be the new keeper of “The Line”

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 16:05:47 +0000

In reply to Mike. There's all sorts of variants. Mr Underpants is quite well-to-do. Always puts his tinny down on a coaster and that.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:21:54 +0000

I’m not convinced Mr Underpants is a real Aussie if he doesn’t know that the correct name for the country is STRAYA.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:25:47 +0000

In reply to Ged Ladd.

Not to get too biological before the sun’s over the yardarm, but ‘Put a gap in ’em’ seems to have more in common with ‘Tear him a new one’ than ‘Shove it up yer arse’.

By: Ged Ladd

Ged Ladd — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:21:40 +0000

In reply to sam. It is an uncouth, Australian expression, m'Lud, used as an alternative to the dignified English gentleman's expression, "shuv it up yer arse!".

By: sam

sam — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 11:57:08 +0000

‘Put a gap in ’em’??