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    Quote Originally Posted by Flay View Post
    Howzat from our golden maiden Annie, you caught us on the back foot with your cricket googly, I’m bowled over, how can we follow on? From his pad the nightwatchman Mercs was stumped, over the edge, beaten, or perhaps just on strike. Has he run out of pace and silly ideas, or just not giving a toss? Let’s not knock him, he might follow on by appealing to Rubbers to bail us out? That bouncer breaks in, pitches with pace, nets it, then it’s over and he swings to the boundary until the next innings, not to call bye or return until there is another sitter, maybe getting a hat trick.
    Lovely stuff, Flay! You've missed out cloughie, for whom I'd suggest 'full toss'

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    Quote Originally Posted by cloughie View Post
    So who wrote something with several Trombones in the title?
    Seventy-six to be precise - Meredith Willson ( it says here)

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    Quote Originally Posted by cloughie View Post
    So who wrote something with several Trombones in the title?
    Meredith Willson - two Ls - 76
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Willson

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    Can someone explain how the Brian Johnston willy gaffe became the name Wilson? I've been looking for links to the name Willie ......

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    Quote Originally Posted by amateur51 View Post
    Lovely stuff, Flay! You've missed out cloughie, for whom I'd suggest 'full toss'
    I Yorked you. By the way the other clue I could have given would be 1 a Yorkshire captain from the 60s and, not related, a Yorkshire spin-bowler from the 60s/70s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anna View Post
    Can someone explain how the Brian Johnston willy gaffe became the name Wilson? I've been looking for links to the name Willie ......
    Yes I'm looking forward to this info too, Anna

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    Quote Originally Posted by cloughie View Post
    You have omitted Ammy and Cali who appear to have retired without troubling the scorers!
    Indeed, and I was only having a jovial swing at Rubbers.

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    great question cloughie

    what was wicked?
    I suppose the "interesting score" was the fact of 76 trombones ?
    what was the Brian Johnston-ism?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anna View Post
    Can someone explain how the Brian Johnston willy gaffe became the name Wilson? I've been looking for links to the name Willie ......
    Wilson has nothing to do with the Willey gaffe, when the score reached 76 BJ always used to refer to it as 'Trombone time'. You are mixing your metaphors with something you haven't met afore!
    Last edited by cloughie; 07-05-12 at 10:36.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mercia View Post
    great question cloughie

    what was wicked?
    I suppose the "interesting score" was the fact of 76 trombones ?
    what was the Brian Johnston-ism?
    Wicked was the reference to Wilson Pickett, who was known as the 'Wicked Pickett', apparently because he had a reputation for a wild lifestyle!

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