pheran
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I am a great admirer of the 'classy put-down'. Winston Churchill was of course a master but this one also raised a smile
The Australian cricket team were playing Zimbabwe and Glenn McGrath (remember him?) was bowling at a portly tail ender without much luck.
As his exasperation mounted he resorted to increasingly virulent sledging along with a succession of intimidatory balls.
When the tubby one glanced a particularly vicious ball to the boundary McGrath vented his anger with a remark about the batsman’s ancestry. The batsman then hooked the next, head high, ball for six. McGrath glared at him and asked..
‘How can you be such a fat AND lucky bastard?’
‘ Because, every time I shag your wife I eat a biscuit ‘ was the insouciant reply
The Australian cricket team were playing Zimbabwe and Glenn McGrath (remember him?) was bowling at a portly tail ender without much luck.
As his exasperation mounted he resorted to increasingly virulent sledging along with a succession of intimidatory balls.
When the tubby one glanced a particularly vicious ball to the boundary McGrath vented his anger with a remark about the batsman’s ancestry. The batsman then hooked the next, head high, ball for six. McGrath glared at him and asked..
‘How can you be such a fat AND lucky bastard?’
‘ Because, every time I shag your wife I eat a biscuit ‘ was the insouciant reply