User talk:Gladstone/cricket

I already want an audio version of this with Rory Bremner. -- Hindleyite Converse • ?pedia 12:38, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, the mainspace cricket page is such utter shybo! I wanted to try and get something worked up which got all the info in, but also brings across the humour of the subject. Feel free to work it up with me!

Ideas so far:

• Boycott to spend the entire time quoting lines from literature, largely irrelevant, and transliterated into Yarksher speak.
• Story told in five acts over the course of five days. Use the characters as plot devices - Bearders to highlight the pointless devotion to stats of cricket fans generally with occasional miniscule interventions, the analyst to explain the details of the rules, the ghost of Johnners as the bringer of mirth...
• Making the story something of a Shakespearian tragedy - which would make Boycott a sort of Puck character, which I think is pretty apt, given the complete irrelevance of much of what he says these days.

Rt Hon W E Gladstone MP GOM | Converse | 13:01, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good! Needs a suitable theatrical title, IMO. -- Hindleyite Converse • ?pedia 18:00, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Actually, scrub that - you have a suitable one already. Also, "Geoff, it's cut to a montage of us losing last time out." - Haha! -- Hindleyite Converse • ?pedia 18:04, 11 August 2008 (UTC)