Whac-A-Squirrel

[Eichhörnchen]

You're right of course - I wasn't really comfortable about that one :haha:

https://i.imgur.com/4AdS329.jpeg

[Ostfriese]

You're right of course - I wasn't really comfortable about that one :haha:

https://i.imgur.com/4AdS329.jpeg


Whack. That's from an Aussie silent movie. I read about that one just a short time ago, most of the movie is lost today. Don't remember the title, though.

[Eichhörnchen]

Well it's the outlaw Ned Kelly - his name was famous world-wide when I was a kid but I suppose he's fallen into obscurity now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/AdcrNzT.jpeg Russell Coight

[Eisenwurst]

Whack

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/niB4wB7.jpeg Geoffrey Rush

[Eisenwurst]

Whack

[Reece]

OK!! Who won? Eisenwurst I assume! :smug:

[Eisenwurst]

Still going mate.

Stick around and snatch some points, a lot of regular players probably don't realise the game's on......:o

You can win this one mate.:arrgh!:

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/0WhCuOz.jpeg Princess Marie Astrid of Luxembourg

[Eisenwurst]

Yep, we're proud of her....she done us well.:Kaleun_Salute:

Someone else can grab the points, good sportsmanship.

[Reece]

:har: yeh right on mate! :up:

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/v8h8jUx.jpeg Queen Mary of Denmark

[Eichhörnchen]

Still going mate.

Stick around and snatch some points

I'll probably have to pack it in sometime late this afternoon - we've got company coming for Easter so I've got to pretend to be sociable

https://i.imgur.com/YYN9TQ2.jpeg Mokare

[Reece]

Whack!!

[Eisenwurst]

Whack. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I don't know Mokare from Adam, but doesn't matter.

Thanks for hosting another W.A.S. , It's very good for Morale. A lot of us are doing it tough, but we don't let on.

Some local Aussie Witchdoctors turned up to do a fertility dance to bring us all good luck, rain, bumper crops, much luck with women :) ... all the good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsVEU6qxWUM

[Eichhörnchen]

Mokare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokare

Strewth! I never knew you had Morris Men down under!

https://i.imgur.com/w1n0Bgi.jpeg Edmund Henderson - he's dressed almost as fancy

[Reece]

Rain!! I'd have to see it to believe it!! iirc isn't that clear wet stuff?? :hmmm:

Edit:
Nov - 20mm
Dec - Nil
Jan - Nil
Feb - Nil
Mar - 4mm
Apr - Nil so far!!

[Ostfriese]

Mokare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokare

Strewth! I never knew you had Morris Men down under!

https://i.imgur.com/w1n0Bgi.jpeg Edmund Henderson - he's dressed almost as fancy


Not an Aussie, but probably deserved what the Wombat did not deserve!

[Eisenwurst]

Rain!! I'd have to see it to believe it!! iirc isn't that clear wet stuff?? :hmmm:

Edit:
Nov - 20mm
Dec - Nil
Jan - Nil
Feb - Nil
Mar - 4mm
Apr - Nil so far!!

Put on your Morris Man gear and start dancing. The Right solution for Climate Change......and watch the rain p..s down. And don't forget to take photos and post them in this Forum. :)

[Aktungbby]

https://i.imgur.com/v8h8jUx.jpeg Queen Mary of Denmarkwhack?

[Eichhörnchen]

@ Vinny - That was a very sheepish whack :haha: - sorry, pal - you missed the slave boat, which brings me neatly to:

Lt Col Sir Edmund Henderson, Controller-General of Convicts (they could use him in El Salvador)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Henderson

Today he's not worth even one whack from you cons but - as Osty said - he deserves to get what the wombat didn't and then some

[Aktungbby]

...so reece got both mokare and Mary with one whack!!?

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Nobody got Queen Mary, mate - no takers

https://i.imgur.com/0BIRC0L.jpeg Jackie Woodburne

[Aktungbby]

whack

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/VdZzS0s.jpeg Richard Briers

[Jimbuna]

Certainly not an Aussie, was born in Cape Town.

Wrong James Matthews :oops:

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/CRIca4q.jpeg Sir Geoffrey Boycott

[Jimbuna]

Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/erfzsx0.jpeg Sir Don Bradman

[Ostfriese]

Whack! With the Cricket bat!

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/sFBc3QG.jpeg Dick Van Dyke says "OWZAT!"

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/fnvWjgr.jpeg Fred Trueman

[Jimbuna]

Stainton, South Yorkshire

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/2yZWVH1.jpeg Dennis Lillee

[Ostfriese]

Another whackie Australian cricketeer

[Eichhörnchen]

I didn't know it was going to be this hard to get a German out, Osty :haha:

[Ostfriese]

I didn't know it was going to be this hard to get a German out, Osty :haha:


:Kaleun_Cheers:
I'm one of those people who read a lot. That comes in handy :)

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/kNoTQfB.jpeg

[Ostfriese]

Whack-A-Squirrel!

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/YeJCEF8.jpeg OWZAT!

Witch Doctor points the bone and sucks 100 points from your soul! No wild squirrels in Oz - remember we are playing "Whack-an-Aussie" today and the only squirrels you can whack are the ones with a didgeridoo! :haha:

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/JpcA38b.jpeg Evonne Goolagong

[Ostfriese]

Whack!

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/r0B0u5c.jpeg Sir Richard Hadlee

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/Sj7Th6K.jpeg

One last blast on the didgeridoo will bring this competition to a close (so somebody better hurry up and whack it)

[Ostfriese]

Whack the didgeridoo, not the squirrel.

[Eichhörnchen]

:haha: Well done for getting those points back, Osty - and thanks for sticking with it. Now that the beautiful sound of the didgeridoo has chased away the squirrel witch doctor (and anything else within earshot) I can retire to add up the scores - hopefully I'll be able to post these tomorrow

https://i.imgur.com/YfRvyLO.jpeg

[Ostfriese]

That was fun :)

[Eichhörnchen]

Thank you for your participation - the judges have begun counting

https://i.imgur.com/OEjYgDL.jpeg

[Eisenwurst]

What's the prize????......"Transportation" ???? :D

[Reece]

No, a swift kick in the backside! :yep:

[Eichhörnchen]

And your nuts chewed

[Eichhörnchen]

SCORES:

Catfish: 50

d@rk51d3: 50

Eisenwurst: 350

Osty: 500

Reece: 50

Vinny: 100

https://i.imgur.com/WqcXUEs.jpeg

Ostfriese: a new Golden Boy in the ascendant? Who'd have thought a German would be so good at cricket? :haha:

And what happened to Vinnius Maximus? I think his early encounter with Maximus Decimus maybe shook him up a bit

[Aktungbby]

And what happened to Vinnius Maximus? I think his early encounter with Maximus Decimus maybe shook him up a bitNah, I only dabble lightly in the 'dick, welsh, aussie' games...conserving my waning septuagenarian energy levels, Pervitin tablets, and Depends pantaloons for the titanic 'squirrel' conflicts 'gainst Rockstar, Catfish, ET2SN, HW3, Buddhahaid et al...when it really counts!:arrgh!::smug::Kaleun_Salivating:

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/mQsCyBP.jpeg

I get that - but we'll have to make do without The Rock in future so I'm told - he just got to be too much squirrel to handle :o

[Ostfriese]

Nah, I only dabble lightly in the 'dick, welsh, aussie' games...conserving my waning septuagenarian energy levels, Pervitin tablets, and Depends pantaloons for the titanic 'squirrel' conflicts 'gainst Rockstar, Catfish, ETSN, HW3, Buddhahaid et al...when it really counts!:arrgh!::smug::Kaleun_Salivating:


So...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjaqrPpdQYc

[Eisenwurst]

Congratulations to Ostfriese. Well played, a worthy opponent. And a big THANK YOU to Glynn for hosting another great game. :Kaleun_Applaud:

A pity about the small turnout but they've only got themselves to blame.....being in the nick, too busy brawling in the political threads, etc etc....come on missing players....what's more important????

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/0qM8T0C.jpeg

Yes very well done, Osty - there's usually a lengthy deconstruction of the game plus a medal ceremony - but perhaps I should've advertised the event better than I did as the stands were rather empty. Oh well - there's always next time! Here's an extract from a PM I just sent to Arnold - I'd been musing on the drama at the beginning where Vinnie lost his trousers:- "I'd hoped to catch Osty out with the same trick (as per the pace bowler Sir Richard Hadlee) but he proved to be a cunning batsman and spotted the googly" - I think we might increase the cricket content now that we know the Germans have learned how to play :har:

Edit: I've just asked a special mystery guest umpire from Face Book to have a look at the recording of the game and tell us what he thinks

[Aktungbby]

- I'd been musing on the drama at the beginning where Vinnie lost his trousers:- "I'd hoped to catch Osty out with the same trick (as per the pace bowler Sir Richard Hadlee)I onlly wear Depends in whack games, not trousers!,:O: My personal adulations to Ostibby! :Kaleun_Applaud: The whack a welsh, dick, aussi games are above my unskilled forte, inasmuch as looking up the subject, rsearching, and placing a WHACK on the computer, given my oft-mentioned slowness with the mouse precludes my effective 'terminator mode' competiveness(with photos) as in the squirrel games. Except for Evonne Gulagong, I don't recognize anyone's face as I cannot decipher faces; incl. even my own wife or family members in crowd situations. There is a Greek name for the inability (prosopagosia) which also hampered my law enforcement career as translating a wanted poster photo to an actual suspect in front of me was nearly impossible. I have no problem with Rocket J. Squirrel or Bullwinkel the moose however!:O: Again congrats to Ostfriese!

[Ostfriese]

https://i.imgur.com/0qM8T0C.jpeg

Yes very well done, Osty - there's usually a lengthy deconstruction of the game plus a medal ceremony - but perhaps I should've advertised the event better than I did as the stands were rather empty. Oh well - there's always next time! Here's an extract from a PM I just sent to Arnold - I'd been musing on the drama at the beginning where Vinnie lost his trousers:- "I'd hoped to catch Osty out with the same trick (as per the pace bowler Sir Richard Hadlee) but he proved to be a cunning batsman and spotted the googly" - I think we might increase the cricket content now that we know the Germans have learned how to play :har:




When I lived in Northern Ireland (more thn 25 years ago...) people there tried to tell me how cricket worked. I didn't understand much of it (and still don't), but the one person who tried the hardest to explain the game to me was a fan of the Australians.

[Eichhörnchen]

@ Aktung

Well I had no idea about all that, mate. I told Arnold earlier today that the next outing had better be a good old traditional game - no tricks - so we'll make it a good one and hopefully the only absentee will be The Rock

https://i.imgur.com/hq7sAuC.jpeg

[Eichhörnchen]

When I lived in Northern Ireland (more thn 25 years ago...) people there tried to tell me how cricket worked. I didn't understand much of it (and still don't), but the one person who tried the hardest to explain the game to me was a fan of the Australians.

So all these 25 years later it turned out to have been all worthwhile :har:

[Eichhörnchen]

https://i.imgur.com/44LQFbw.jpeg

It's long been a problem that the game can't be played by everyone (including me) right around the clock because we all need to sleep, so there've always been concerns that some players will get less whacking time than others because of 'dead spots'

So I've looked at the times when players might be around to access the most play and have found the following:- for Australia (AEST) 16:00-19:00 and then 07:00-09:00 are the best times; then for Eastern US players local time 06:00-19:00, then for Western US players it's local time 06:00-16:00. On the back of this, I'll usually be around to do my part in UK from 07:00-00:00 midnight BST

[Eisenwurst]

Thanks Big E. You put a lot of work into W.A.S......and it's appreciated by your brothers in Terra Australis.

Is that the clock you use to work out the Time Zones ???? :doh: :oops:

[Eichhörnchen]

^ Yeah, it's my secret clock :salute: