AHB and I are meeting in The Crusting Pipe at around 9:30-10:00 this evening to decant some port for the off-line tomorrow and to have a couple of glasses of something not yet determined.
Anyone in the area is welcome to join us.
Derek
Pre-cricket Port Tasting - TCP - 24th June 2008
Pre-cricket Port Tasting - TCP - 24th June 2008
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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I think that I should gently correct Derek. This is an early start to the "After Cricket Port Offline". The intention is that we will keep going until after the cricket, pausing only to watch the cricket or to let the TCP staff clean The Crusting Pipe around us.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
Not entirely true. I have to go to work tomorrow and forego the pleasure of watching New Zealand win by an Innings and 325 runs*.AHB wrote:I think that I should gently correct Derek. This is an early start to the "After Cricket Port Offline". The intention is that we will keep going until after the cricket, pausing only to watch the cricket or to let the TCP staff clean The Crusting Pipe around us.
Derek
*Note to Ben: don't!
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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I thought pedantry was to be encouraged in this forum?DRT wrote:Not entirely true. I have to go to work tomorrow and forego the pleasure of watching New Zealand win by an Innings and 325 runs*.AHB wrote:I think that I should gently correct Derek. This is an early start to the "After Cricket Port Offline". The intention is that we will keep going until after the cricket, pausing only to watch the cricket or to let the TCP staff clean The Crusting Pipe around us.
Derek
*Note to Ben: don't!
Am I at liberty to explain that no such score as "an innings and 325 runs" is possible in the ODI format of the game?
Ben
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Surely it is possible under Duckworth-Lewis? Indeed, I believe that Derek, having grasped such a fact was actually making an oblique point about the rain predicted for tomorrowbenread wrote:Am I at liberty to explain that no such score as "an innings and 325 runs" is possible in the ODI format of the game?
No. I was trying to lure Ben into explaining the rules of cricket (again). Despite my request for him not to he insisted on doing so. Which is one of the reasons why we love him.JacobH wrote:Surely it is possible under Duckworth-Lewis? Indeed, I believe that Derek, having grasped such a fact was actually making an oblique point about the rain predicted for tomorrowbenread wrote:Am I at liberty to explain that no such score as "an innings and 325 runs" is possible in the ODI format of the game?
Pedantry knows no limits here. Come all ye pedants and ped at us. We need you.
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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