Cricket, Baseball, Gin, and Beer
“Everyone knows which comes first when it’s a question of cricket or sex — all discerning people recognise that. Anyway, don’t forget one doesn’t have to do two things at the same time. You can either have sex before cricket or after cricket — the fundamental fact is that cricket must be there at the center of things.”
–Harold Pinter
Dateline: Barming, Maidstone, Kent, England
It has taken me only a few days to learn that the English are quite mad, and I say this with affection, because they are very much like us. Thus, if you apply the transitive theorem, you learn that we, too, are crazy—which, quite frankly, I had always suspected.
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