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Hey kiddies! We’re Nimby and Mizzy and we’re here to blog for you about this funny game called cricket! We’re best / bestial friends. Nimby’s the one who’s a cat, whose favourite food is
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KFC, and Mizzy is the one who likes nothing better than texting home on her 3 mobile, who’s rocking the ginger curls, now don’t call it a wig, I’m a genetic mystery don’t you know, racially ambiguous just like Elena off ANTM. Don’t question it, I’m not black you know!!
We don’t quite know what we’re doing here, especially Nimby given how she’s a cat, but the lovely people at Cricket with Balls have welcomed us into their family for a few weeks to blog about whatever we like so long as we maintain a level of needless triviality not seen since “Aussie Ladette to Lady” . This is perfect in a way, even though it might have been a better idea to launch this blog while there was a test match actually being played in our country to which the masses of newly-interested cricket fans roused from their cricket-hating stupors by this blog could have gone. Or perhaps it might have been better to grab the youthful demographic by launching a non-patronising blog featuring the women’s world cup which IS currently being played in our country and which is woefully unsupported. Never mind that, though! Nimby + Mizzy + Test Cricket = a perfect match. Match! Do you see what we’ve done there?
We love cricket. Long time. What other game can lead to players’ houses being attacked and effigies being burned when a team underperforms? It’s genius. We love all of cricket’s adorable little quirks. Like the fact that a couple of cricketers had to flee overseas after making a black armband protest about human rights abuses, and the fact that a terrorist attack on a bus may lead to international cricket being kept out of Pakistan for the foreseeable future. It’s so … racy; it’s almost like an episode of 24! LOL!
Anyway, right now we couldn’t be prouder of the Australian cricket team. Sure our team might not have match fixing allegations against them like Herschelle Gibbs or Nicky Boje, or rape charges like Ntini, but what we do have is arse kicking talent, although this arse kicking talent couldn’t quite manage to beat the Saffers at home! LMAO!
It feels like the start of a new era for Australian cricket. No longer do the names [hasty google search] Gilchrist, McGrath and Warne appear on the dressing room door. Now it’s [another hasty google search] Hughes, North and Siddle. In fact Hughes is playing so well that we need to find something funny to say about him, and in the absence of any actual cricketing knowledge on our part let’s tenuously jump onto the fact that the South African commentator don’t always pronounce the “H” at the start of his surname. Because nothing is as funny as a joke about a foreign person’s accent, people! Next week, we’ll be laughing at [google] Laxman Sivaramakrishnan’s flat vowels (not Ravi Shastri’s, because he’s HOT in a brown sugar kind of way!).
Hughes has certainly managed to be memorable. Out for a duck in the first test, followed by a century in the second. Look at how much cricketing terminology we know! Let’s see if we can tie this to a sexual analogy… here goes! Is this the cricket equivalent of playing hard to get? You tease, Phillip. Hughes also changed our exceptionally well-thought out and firmly held views about being the new boy in cricket. You see, we had always assumed cricketers aged in, hmm, analogy is falling apart somewhat. If only any of this paragraph made any sense! Never mind! LMFAO!!
That’s why we weren’t surprised to see Marcus North cutting loose with the bat in the first test. That’s about the right debut age for a test cricketer, yes? Just call them late bloomers, even though if late-20s is the usual age of an Australian debutant, Marcus North isn’t in fact a late bloomer at all, but as we all know logic flew out of the window a long time ago!
We’re also excited to finally see a ranga on the cricket pitch in the baggy green (we’ve never heard of Craig McDermott). We were just discussing how sad we were that Rugby League is packed with redheads (such is our ability to discuss different sports comparatively) but we never see any on the cricket pitch. It might be due to the hours spent standing in the sun, what with their pale skin, because skin cancer jokes are always hilarious. But finally Andrew McDonald has appeared on the scene and we couldn’t be happier that the crowd has a ranga to abuse. LOL!
We’ll be eagerly watching the rest of the second test, so stay tuned for our next blog where we, you know, actually talk more about cricket (see how self aware we are!) Kthanxbai! xoxoxo!!
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Wow UJ they really got you didnt they!
Good work Mims.
Nice to see the team getting together to avenge the injustice meted out to Miss Field.
this isn’t a parody, is it? you’ve been infected…… PAIN IS THE CLEANSER
Bravo!!
Ooh, your blog is so unpatronising and excitably informative – it has turned me into a cricket fan. Wow, it lasts five days… so I can straighten my hair and give myself facials and pedicures while watching the match, maybe even buy shoes online with my 3 mobile, thus I don’t have to compromise my femininity.
Thanks for opening my eyes to such a great game Nimby and Mizzy
I can see syndication calling
OMG!
I love Nimby’s grumpy face – a grumpy cat is a good cat.
Dave, that’s not her grumpy face, that’s her normal face.
Rugby League
They’re actually big league fans… or at least fans of league players, not sure which. They’re all like “Awwwww, come on” in defence of Brett Stewart at the moment.
(For those who don’t follow rugby league, Brett Stewart is a star player recently charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl. He’s been suspended by the NRL, which is just outrageous and completely unfair etc.)
Reading Kiki and Sassy I wondered on the dynamics of two people writing a single blog, does one speak and one type? Do they take it turns with each word? I have tried to ask them, but for some reasons my comments do not appear. So tell me Nimby, are you really the sole contributor and Mizzy is just along for the ride, offering comic hair relief?
tenuously ? like, what the heck??? Like, do nimby and mizzy have actual college degrees?
Cheers Mims.. Super writing this!
Mizzy how I do heart thee! And Nimby, your assessment of the referral system is so poignant. Such insight from a cat is so rare. What a treasure.
Liek srsly, thx soo much!
(Too many vowels?)
Chris, I do the writing and Mizzy provides opposable thumbs, but also occasionally lends me her hair:
http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu166/mizzamoo/RYANCAT.jpg?t=1237041224
HAHAHAHA.
Nimby you are my favourite cat in the whole wide world.
Wow. I find it hard to believe that any of you are fullygrown adults.
Take a good hard look at yourselves.
Actually, I am a cat.
David Barry, if you are going to criticise Kiki and Sassy’s rugby league’s credentials at least get your facts straight. I have read their blog and nowhere have they ever supported or excused any player accused of sexual assault.
And how can their knowledge of cricket be found wanting when the haven’t written about it yet?
Perhaps Cricket Australia is tired of the self-important cricket bloggers who believe they know everthing about the game and are just waiting for the chance to fix it. Maybe it is time for something toungue-in-cheek and a new demographic.
As a cat, my tongue is always in my cheek.
Wow, how over-thought was that blog.
You really did come across as un-intelligent, spiteful, bitter, little “cats”, riddled with jealousy at the fact two knowledgable, clever girls have done something out of the ordinary and have done it well.
I think the whole reason behind CA hiring them was to add something different to a game that stands out as being particularly stuffy in the sporting world.
Lighten up. If you understood what the girls were about, or had actually READ oherrol.com then you might see that what they say is all in jest.
I am a cat. Miaow. Miriam is a lawyer, and thus happily jealously-free.
Wait. Laura and Estelle. Which one of you is Kiki, and which one is Sassy? I’m tipping Estelle is the one with the genetically mutant hair.
nope! I have beautiful, blonde hair down to my waist! Thanks for asking though
Also, for the rec, making pathetic digs at someone’s appearance is neither constructive or useful to your ‘argument’ about the girl’s supposed lack of writing ability.
If you don’t like their writing, fine. You’re messed up, but fine. But to bring someone’s looks into it is petty as fuck.
stewart, see, eg, posts 471, 485, and 496 by Kiki here.
ill admit im a bit of a bleeding heart when it comes to footy players. unless they play for the storm.
i guess i just feel for him coz we have all had those spastic drunk nights where we have missing hours and what not. especially at 23.
what can i say, im a softie when it comes to the boys.
logically i know it’s probably the right thing to do etc etc. but emotionally im a bit awwwwwman. u know?
You are trawling LU for my posts now? Hahaha. Wow.
laura • Mar 15, 2009 @11:54 pm
Wow. I find it hard to believe that any of you are fullygrown adults.
Take a good hard look at yourselves.
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I couldnt have put it better myself!
Why the unnecessary bitchiness? You sound like you’re feeling rather threatened. Otherwise why would you attack people who have done nothing to you and have only done their job which is to actually write about cricket. It’s really unclassy and juvenile of you.
catfight!
catfight!
Sweet Jesus.
Just when I thought us poms held the monopoly on petty jealousy and irrational insecurity.
Get out more.
*something about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery*
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I only went back and dug those LU posts up because stewart challenged me on it.
Good post bro
I have nothing to add, I just wanted to complete a hat-trick of Davids.
Celia and Allison of America’s next Top Model cycle 12 are just looking boring. If I were a designer I would never book them for a job. Would you? Goodbye
Marie, we haven’t got that series here yet because Britain’s Next Top Model has started and has filled that slot in the schedule. Please no spoilers! Top Model alumni don’t have a brilliant record of being booked by designers; the most successful one by far is Alice, from the Australian show.