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Caravan Ray wrote:But that second one looks like a picture of a jewel-encrusted cricket ball?!?!

It looks like someone demonstrating how to bowl an [url=http://en.[CENSORED].org/wiki/Inswinger]in-swinger[/url]

HA! Good eye you bloody roo wanker. It IS a cricket ball, but it was the closest thing I could find to a diamond encrusted baseball. I didn't think anyone would notice, but I forgot that you're the master of trivia.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:But that second one looks like a picture of a jewel-encrusted cricket ball?!?!

It looks like someone demonstrating how to bowl an [url=http://en.[CENSORED].org/wiki/Inswinger]in-swinger[/url]

HA! Good eye you bloody roo wanker. It IS a cricket ball, but it was the closest thing I could find to a diamond encrusted baseball. I didn't think anyone would notice, but I forgot that you're the master of trivia.

There is nothing trivial about knowing the correct way to grip the seam.

BTW - if we want to get trivial - where is that photo from? My guess is it is Indian in origin. Bollywood probably. A special present for Muttiah Muralitharan or Shane Warne maybe?

Caravan Ray wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:But that second one looks like a picture of a jewel-encrusted cricket ball?!?!

It looks like someone demonstrating how to bowl an [url=http://en.[CENSORED].org/wiki/Inswinger]in-swinger[/url]

HA! Good eye you bloody roo wanker. It IS a cricket ball, but it was the closest thing I could find to a diamond encrusted baseball. I didn't think anyone would notice, but I forgot that you're the master of trivia.

There is nothing trivial about knowing the correct way to grip the seam.

BTW - if we want to get trivial - where is that photo from? My guess is it is Indian in origin. Bollywood probably. A special present for Muttiah Muralitharan or Shane Warne maybe?

Here is where I got it from. Read up trivia boy.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote: HA! Good eye you bloody roo wanker. It IS a cricket ball, but it was the closest thing I could find to a diamond encrusted baseball. I didn't think anyone would notice, but I forgot that you're the master of trivia.

There is nothing trivial about knowing the correct way to grip the seam.

BTW - if we want to get trivial - where is that photo from? My guess is it is Indian in origin. Bollywood probably. A special present for Muttiah Muralitharan or Shane Warne maybe?

Here is where I got it from. Read up trivia boy.

Well, my guess of where it came from was right - even the Bollywood connection - further googling revealed: "The lady weighing this one up is Bollywood actress Mahima Chaudhary."

Couldn't find who actually won the ball though. It was supposed to be a prize for the best Indian cricketer at the 2007 World Cup (that is like the Baseball 'World Series' - except there are actually 16 different countries playing*, and it has an estimated audience of some 2 billion people ). Considering India were beaten by Bangladesh and didn't even make the semi-finals - it was probably melted down and not given to anybody.


*actually 27 different countries - but 12 Carribean nations or territories play together as the "West Indies"


Hope this is all helping you Ross

1 - I like the Diamonds Are Forever themes, the one with the field the best. Can't help but hear the Bond theme, though.

2 - The 'in-swinger' looks like more a slider pitch in baseball than it does a curveball.

3 - I like baseball and golf, so I guess that I'm double boring. Sounds about right. sniff

4 - That jewel encrusted ball makes me want to toss it in the air and then take a swing for the fences. Maybe with a cricket bat. What a show it'd make, exploding in the sun.

oh! What about

I wish all base ball players were dead, like in that movie with Tony Danza

Paco Del Stinko wrote: 4 - That jewel encrusted ball makes me want to toss it in the air and then take a swing for the fences. Maybe with a cricket bat. What a show it'd make, exploding in the sun.

I'd video tape it with 10 cams 360 degrees all the way around and edit it in slow motion and dub in a twinkling sound as the burst of sparkles shimmer in the sun. I'd slow it down SO much, that It'd take 5 minutes for all the diamonds to hit the ground. I'd do some of those matrix shots on individual diamonds with the 360 degree thing real close up. Zoom in on a diamond, freeze it, pan all the way around it, then set back in motion.

I figure it will only cost around:
Diamond encrusted cricket ball = $68,500
Ten digital video tapes = $20
Paco at bat = pizza and a pitcher of beer
Destroying a $68,500 cricket ball = priceless

...yeah, I know. But it's raining here today and that gets me teh thinkin' too much.

I'll start practicing my swing, that sounds nice'n trippy. And I like mushroom pizza.

Cool - thanks for all the suggestions - I think I am settling into something like this