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Name or Pseudonym:: Colin Campbell

About Me:: Transplanted Scot hanging out in Adelaide, Southern Antipodes with my long suffering partner, two lovely young kids and some pets. I divide my time between indentured professional servitude, cooking, cleaning, chauffeuring and blogging. When I have free time we hang out or go to the beach.

Blog:: adelaidegreenporridgecafe.blogspot.com

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Global Warming set to do in Haggis

A belted plaid (rather than a kilt) as worn by...

Image via WikipediaThe mighty Scottish Haggis is fighting for its life with lung creepy crawlies lasting the winter better with the warmer weather, reports Scottish Culinary Correspondent, Matt Wardmann.

Bugger. Just toss in a few more spices and cook it a bit longer I say.

We may end up having to move to porridge and whiskey for our Burns nights.

Shock Horror as Republicans prepare Negative Ads

In a major campaign shift to counter dismal polling, Honest John McCain's Shit Kicker in Chiefs have ordered more cod liver oil for the voters stuck in their castles of negative equity and defaulting credit cards.

Senator McCain said he intended to press Senator Obama on a variety of familiar Republican themes during this week's debate, accusing the Democrat once again of getting ready to raise taxes and increase government spending.

What was that mercy flight to Washington about again?
What was that jaunt to the Middle East all about again?

Ha Ha Ha

How stupid do they think swing voters are?

Up the wicket with no paddle

Canoe Paddle

Cricket Paddle?

Fraternity Paddle

Baseball Paddle

It seems that Forbes, American journalists need to do some background checking before diving in to the world of cricket. Their ignorance speaks volumes of the chance of selling cricket to the Yanks. Not much hope I would say, despite the enthusiasm of Allen Stanford a billionaire developer trying to sell cricket to Americans.

Twenty years ago Stanford, 58, who grew up in Fort Worth, Tex., couldn't tell a cricket paddle from a baseball bat.

I'll bet he still doesn't. Unfortunately, yes it looks like a paddle, but it is a bat.

This speaks volumes of the cultural divide. Nobody in America has ever heard of cricket. When I lived there in the 1980s and 90s, it was one gigantic cricket free zone. It was like it didn't exist. The Twilight Zone of Cricket. Fair enough there were plenty of American sports and football (soccer) was barely on the radar screen. Both football and rugby have done a much better job of promoting themselves and are now quite established. Cricket on the other hand seems to be taking a whiz bang approach with big ticket events, rather like the original Major League Soccer with big stars and no real grass roots support.

Whether cricket will take in the U.S. remains to be seen. In February Stanford dispatched a marketing group, armed with instruction manuals and broadcasts of the Stanford 20/20 tournament, to Fort Collins, Colo., with orders to turn the town, picked for its lack of exposure to the sport, "cricket crazy." The $3.5 million mission was a qualified success: After five weeks of being bombarded with ads and promotions, 6% of those surveyed said they would be willing to order cricket on pay-per-view. Fort Collins has a population of 125,700, implying that Stanford spent around $464 on each convert.

Based on this calculation it would take about a billion dollars to make a small inroad into the saturated US sports watching market. Why would you bother?

Cricket is a very small sport outside enthusiastic support in a small number of countries. Even here in Australia, only test matches and other international matches are well supported. Who has the time to sit and watch cricket. All the national matches are staged for pay tv with about a hundred people in to watch.

So cricket and your stuffy administrators in Dubai, get out your bats and get paddling if you want to make some inroads into some other markets. I think that the American one is a bit too hard.

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Although Spotty is a very happy and contented dog, some of the things that we do to him make him sad. He is very patient and waits until the photographs are taken with his doleful face. He is most sad when we leave for the day and puts on his mopey face and pulls in his tail and sulks behind the gate. When we come back he leaps up and down behind the gate wagging his tale furiously. He has obviously forgiven us for our earlier fashion transgressions.

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We Need More Politicians Like Dr Karl

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I am sick of the hypocrisy of many of the current generation of Australian politicians. We need more independent minded people in politics like Dr Karl, David Koch, Tim Flannery, Laurel Papworth an... Read More »

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Posted by Colin Campbell on November 3rd, 2007 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments (Add)

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At 3:51am on November 5th, 2007, ladybanana said…: Thanks for adding me here.. I need some friends :)

At 8:35am on November 4th, 2007, Sue said…: Hi Colin. Glad to see you are having a go at this.

At 7:33pm on October 31st, 2007, Kelley said…: Hi Colin!

this is going to be a great ride! Will try to pop over to your blog and have a read :) I am going to be doing the thing on my wordpress blog and not here, just posting updates.

At 2:14am on October 10th, 2007, Trish said…: Hi Colin,

Just introducing myself to the other Aussies, and wishing everyone luck! Have you NaBlo'd before? It's going to be a hell of a challenge for me. I'm hoping the kids will do something blogworthy every day and make it easy for me.

See you around
Trish