Comments on: Middlesex v Lancashire Pro 40 match report

By: Ged

Ged — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:34:10 +0000

Good spot, Ceci, but fans of Spike Jones will recognise that the toreador in his version of Carmen is named Escapillo, although the lyric link (attached) spells it Escapillow:

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/c/carmenmurdered.shtml

Ged is delighted to learn that the Vaughaning paragraph went down well. Ged awaits Vaughan himself on TMS this winter with eager anticipation – will he Vaughan when summarising?

By: Ceci

Ceci — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:03:28 +0000

Belmonte, Manolete, Escamillo? Load of bull, Ged. And how come young Lavender turned up with Escapillo? Bit flighty if she set off with one Spaniard and arrived with quite another. As Suave would say, how queer. Top Vaughaning though

By: Bert

Bert — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:56:56 +0000

Excellent report, Ged. I would like to think that, as a fellow Lancastrian, Escamillo conducted himself properly at Lords, saying “We ‘ant got nothin’ like this up our way, Mr. Ged, sir, what with all this finery and the like”, drinking his wine as if he’d never seen any before, and confiding to friends afterwards that it was “all well and good, and everyone was proper kind, but ah felt a bit of a duck egg, an’ ah’m ‘appier wi’ mi own kind.”