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Don't laugh, I may be fired as Yahoo's online proofreader.

But, that's hilarious. A real LOL. Thanks for the giggle. I needed it.

We all need to laugh a LOT more than we do! Sport has been a great source of monumental missunderestimations (thanks GW) and they have been named Colemanballs in honour of the great BBC sports commentator David Coleman who came out with many a live comment on TV to make sides split in the 60's,70's & 80's. Maybe his best was in the final of the 1976 Olympic 400 metres when he said this about
Albero Juantorena:

"The big Cuban opened his legs and showed his class!"

There were many such quotes and others followed such as Brian Johnston commenting on cricket:

"The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey."

and

"Ray Illingworth has just relieved himself at the pavilion end."

My all time favourite was Eddie Warring commenting on a Rugby game after a little "argy bargy" (a punch-up):

"They're all enemies on the field but all good friends in the showers!"

I've got to say, TG is a loooooooooong way off that level of misscommunication!

Thanks for the sore ribs, Chris! The big Cuban and the bowler got me!!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

haoli25 wrote:

Don't laugh, I may be fired as Yahoo's online proofreader.

Keep those shitty greenbacks coming. Lol

neverfoundthetime wrote:

We all need to laugh a LOT more than we do! Sport has been a great source of monumental missunderestimations (thanks GW) and they have been named Colemanballs in honour of the great BBC sports commentator David Coleman who came out with many a live comment on TV to make sides split in the 60's,70's & 80's. Maybe his best was in the final of the 1976 Olympic 400 metres when he said this about
Albero Juantorena:

"The big Cuban opened his legs and showed his class!"

There were many such quotes and others followed such as Brian Johnston commenting on cricket:

"The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey."

and

"Ray Illingworth has just relieved himself at the pavilion end."

My all time favourite was Eddie Warring commenting on a Rugby game after a little "argy bargy" (a punch-up):

"They're all enemies on the field but all good friends in the showers!"

I've got to say, TG is a loooooooooong way off that level of misscommunication!

One of my favourites: About a televised Snooker match

He's going for the pink, and for those of you with black-and-white sets, the yellow is behing the blue.
Ted Lowe quote