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Strauss being conspicuously indifferent to Strauss’s omission

Bowled on 24th October, 2007 at 09:28 by King Cricket
Category: Andrew Strauss, Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

Lemon Bella has the latest on Strauss’s omission from the England squad:

“Here is a picture of StraussCat being indifferent to Strauss (again). It means you can get two posts out of the Andrew Strauss announcement, instead of just the one.”

Cricketers hate a small box

“You’d think in this time of crisis his namesake would at least pay a bit of attention; maybe pass comment on poor umpiring decisions, but no. StraussCat is clearly more interested in sleeping and fitting himself in a box that is much too small for him.”

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  1. Reply
    Miriam   //   October 24th, 2007 at 12:27

    Ooh, I’m glad you’re still doing the animal posts.

    Lemon Bella, is Strausscat a Turkish Van?

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    Miriam   //   October 24th, 2007 at 12:32

    BTW I have only just noticed that there’s a caption when you hover over the photos. I like!

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    Suave   //   October 24th, 2007 at 13:04

    StraussCat reminds me of The Wing Commander®
    in a number of ways..

    There’s the steely eyed glare given to umpires when given a bad a decision.

    The nonchalant leave of a ball outside offstump, that unbeknownst to strausscat, has cut back and up-rooted his off stump.

    And the feet firmly planted in the box(crease), when they bleddy shouldn’t be!

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    Lemon Bella   //   October 24th, 2007 at 19:08

    Miriam, StraussCat is what’s technically called “A Mixture”. He was a rescue cat so I don’t know anything about his parentage or shady past.

    StraussCat was called StraussCat because when I went to choose a cat at the RSPCA, two people walked past and said that he had legs that were “too short”. That’s another thing he has in common with the real Strauss.

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    Miriam   //   October 25th, 2007 at 11:21

    Whatever he is, he’s a nice-looking, very smooshable cat.

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    Lemon Bella   //   October 25th, 2007 at 19:24

    He’s very smooshable indeed. But should you ever come across him fast asleep, don’t try to smoosh him because he’ll bite your hand. I learned that the hard way.

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    Mahinda   //   October 26th, 2007 at 10:51

    So, not only will he bite the hand that feeds him, but he’s got very short legs? Sounds more like the KeyMaster to me.

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    Miriam   //   October 26th, 2007 at 10:55

    My mum always told me that you should never disturb a sleeping cat. Even if said cat is sleeping in the hood of the coat you want to wear that day. It is a bit unfair, though, that cats have no such rules about disturbing sleeping humans.

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