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Ben Hilfenhaus is quietly impressive

Bowled on 9th July, 2009 at 11:04 by King Cricket
Category: Ashes, Australia cricket news, Ben Hilfenhaus

It's German for 'Ben Hilfenhouse'Midway through yesterday’s play, there was a strange, unholy sound in our front room. We eventually concluded that an Australian was trying to communicate with us.

After concealing all sleeves from sight so that it didn’t get distressed, we eventually managed to deduce what it was trying to tell us. It transpired that it was impressed by two things:

  1. That Lara Bingle can talk and sit at the same time. It didn’t think The Bingle had this capacity.
  2. Ben Hilfenhaus’s bowling.

We agreed on both counts.

This film features marines using the bannister when they go down some stairs. What more could you want?

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  1. Reply
    Captain Kirk   //   July 9th, 2009 at 13:25

    Careful KC – its strung two sentences together. Its all downhill from here.

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    SixSixEight   //   July 9th, 2009 at 15:04

    He would be even more impressive if he could learn how to shave his facial hair every day.

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    Raffles   //   July 9th, 2009 at 15:25

    Hit it with a shovel.

    Then burn it.

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    Eldershot   //   July 9th, 2009 at 18:13

    Shouldn’t that be “Ben Hilfenhaus’ bowling”?

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    Captain Kirk   //   July 9th, 2009 at 18:23

    As “Hilfen” in German means “help” or “relief”, his surname is some sort of relief house. Commonly known as a toilet.

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    Dada   //   July 9th, 2009 at 18:37

    I refuse to believe the Bingle can simultaneously sit and talk.

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    Ged Ladd   //   July 9th, 2009 at 18:40

    No problem with facial hair, 668.

    No problem with “Hilfenhaus’s” as a possessive, Eldershot.

    Problem with England’s performance c/w Australia’s performance in this test so far.

    Problem with the concept of Lara Bingle. I’d never even heard of her until this posting came along, curse you KC.

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    thesaurusrus   //   July 9th, 2009 at 19:23

    i270.photobucket.com/…/lara_bingle_cricket.jpg

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    Bert   //   July 10th, 2009 at 08:56

    I was always told that the only two s-ending names that didn’t get the apostrophe-s added were Jesus and Moses. I was never told why.

    Re: Lara Bingle. Why do you want her to talk?

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    thelibrarian   //   July 11th, 2009 at 01:11

    she needs to talk so you can realise that she’s or-strar-leee-en and is, therefore, not to be allowed to breed.

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    Pat   //   July 11th, 2009 at 17:26

    Hilfenhaus looks like Howard Moon from the Mighty boosh.

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