Comments on: Strauss being conspicuously indifferent to Strauss’s selection ahead of Owais Shah for England’s final warm-up match before the first Test against New Zealand

By: Suave

Suave — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:27:43 +0000

Happy to be of assistance.

Itz gud tu lern fings

By: Uncle J rod

Uncle J rod — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:06:49 +0000

The england certainly take this strauss seriously.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:54:23 +0000

That’s very useful for English readers too Suave.

By: Suave

Suave — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:34:33 +0000

A little history, on the etymology of the phrase, for any non-english readers!

Firstly, In the game of nine-pins, three pins were set up in the form of a triangle, and when all the pins except these three were knocked down, the set was technically said to be “knocked into a cocked hat.”

Secondly, the game was named after a three-cornered hat with the brim turned up (i.e. cocked) worn in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:15:59 +0000

Sorry, what I should have said was “it knocks any picture I’ve ever taken – ANY picture – firmly into a cocked hat”.

The wistful puma was the runner up in that category. The winning picture features monkeys, which reminds me of one of my favourite New Yorker cartoons – 2 little boys, talking to each other in the corridor at school, one says to the other “there’s a lot of pressure to like monkeys”.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:07:06 +0000

Another opportunity to use the phrase ‘knocked into a cocked hat’ goes begging.

Our favourite phrase. We use it even when it’s not applicable.

No, we use it ESPECIALLY when it’s not applicable.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:58:37 +0000

I got the “puma cannot roar” fact from this picture of a wistful puma at the Wildlife Photographer exhibition (it’s in the 10-year-old and under category, which is depressing because it kicks any picture I’ve ever taken – ANY picture – firmly to the kerb).

http://tinyurl.com/2a2n2x

By: Lemon Bella

Lemon Bella — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:55:09 +0000

That’s his fur! He has ginger bits all over him, including his paws.

By: matt b

matt b — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:45:18 +0000

Not wishing to slander your cat Lemon Bella, but StraussCat seems to have rather mucky paws. Where has he been sticking them?

By: Lemon Bella

Lemon Bella — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:27 +0000

See, this site is educational as well as… whatever else it is.

I can confirm that StraussCat is yawning. He only roars when i won’t get up to feed him.