Posts
Laugh like mad! But here is one I am working like mad to confirm - will get back to you soonest, okay?
Apparenty, the highest 10th wicket stand in the Israeli Cricket League is between Benny Wadwacker and Mohammed Faqui for 69.
No joke.
PLEASE NOTE The Corridor is moving grounds at the moment. This is the old site, and comments have been disabled. Check back tomorrow and we should be safely ensconced at our new home
Funny names
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of March Leave a comment on this post
I’m a bit of a fan of funny names and general wordplayage, so it was with great and splendid delight that I finally got round to buying 12th Man (mentioned the other day, actually). In it, Tony Greig, Bill Lawry, Richie Benaud and friends commentate on various games…with some ridiculous, always hilarious and often massively rude names. It’s utter bloody brilliance, and I’d urge you to buy it immediately. I haven’t laughed so much in ages! Then again, I do love purile humour (”And he’s gone for a slash just outside off stump…you really can’t be allowed to do that, the puddle…” etc)
The less rude ones include Kartis Arminhalf, Ramatunga DownaThroata, Wayne King, Hugh Jarse, Brendan Kangaroopoo and Cock Sarker. Not to mention the Sri Lankan spinner, SmellabitofaRatna, and the Indian opener Sunil Haveascar. Oh and IwannaUse Yadunny and Mekarsa Bitrusty, those two splendid middle-order Australians. Who can forget Ilarva Cornishpasty and Snake Sharma too?
Anyway, time for some fun. Let’s draw up a list of alternative names, the ruder and funnier the better. I’ll start it off with two very fine England prospects; Piston Broke and Mebats Snappedinalf.
Tags: bill-lawry, cricket-cds, purile, ramatunga, Richie-Benaud, stupid, tony-greig |
15 Responses to “Funny names”
March 22nd, 2006 at 11.14 pm
March 23rd, 2006 at 2.51 am
Sounds a good read
Slightly off the point but very funny is this..
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2003/s_heathrow-p1.php
Not cricket, but still people mucking about with names.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4.40 am
You’ve just discovered The 12th Man! Congratulations, Will, but where have you been for the last 22 years my boy?
Billy Birmingham is a brilliant comic. But I think my 12th Man favourite is not one of his commentary pieces, but a rap by M.C.G.Hammer sounding rather like Richie Benaud, and performed to the tune of the Channel 9 cricket theme. (Can’t remember off hand which album that was on.)
March 23rd, 2006 at 11.22 am
Yeah Will, 12th man has been around for years!
Rick, Is the rap thing your thinking of called “Marvellous”?
March 23rd, 2006 at 12.14 pm
You’d better bring that into work tomorrow, or I’ll sack you. Or worse, get you-know-you back in to do some scanning …
March 23rd, 2006 at 1.24 pm
I reffer to cricketers with their alternatives names much more often then do I with their real names …
Salmanella Detol Buttass
Sweap Khan
Mithcel Pierced-chin-son
Intazam
And you ought to have an alternative name too Will.
What about Williamidor Lukecertainty
March 23rd, 2006 at 2.43 pm
Anal Grumble?
March 23rd, 2006 at 8.31 pm
Excellent, Christopher!
I actually sat down and applied my vile, depraved sense of humour to this.
We start off gently with:
Scotty B. Miup
Phil Ippinell
Mahatma Coatsangluvs
Ian I. R. Gaye
Ewan Immerdrunk
Anyone who has been to a Girls Guides or Boy Scouts meeting will recognise the inseparable Indian openers:
Gin Ganguly
Ghuli Guly
Ghuli Watcha
Gin Ghanghu
Ghingan Ghu
Moving onto some European player:
Tito Verarsandbackwards
Tutus A. Scottisbottom
Kenny Geranardon and his brother, Willy
Not leaving out the Women cricketers, the great opener, Sheila Vitoff-Withanyone.
Smutty enough, Will?
March 23rd, 2006 at 8.38 pm
Elliott: it was indeed called “Marvellous”/
March 23rd, 2006 at 8.58 pm
arrghh, no editing options for the tippos, should have read Titus A. Scottisbottom.
Are you playing in the Final this weekend, Elliott?
April 10th, 2006 at 12.39 pm
Noticed that Enamel Plaque is bowling right now for Bangladesh as they carve up the Australians.
Sorry, that’s Enamel Plaque jnr. 
October 17th, 2006 at 12.19 am
Akeep Myteef Inajar Besidemahbed is just brilliance!
December 8th, 2006 at 8.29 am
Markus…
It was quite useful reading, found some interesting details about this topic. Thanks….
December 13th, 2006 at 1.38 pm
12th man has indeed been going for years. It’s a spin off from the Billy Birmingham “Wired World of Sports”. There is a great commentary from the late “Barry Sheen” (”bet the birds love ‘im too”), a summary of the Australian victory over England in football (I don’t need to say “soccer” do I ?) and a superb tribute to the Sydney Olympics in 2000. This one is a feast of crazy names (eg Paddy O’Furniture, who won a gold medal for the Irish Republic).
The early 12th man had Richie Benaud on his own but as it gained popularity, more characters came in, like Tony Greig, Bill Lawrie and so on. I can think of at least half a dozen including a very barbed version of Hanse Cronje before he was killed in a plane crash. (In real life that is).
If you have found one or two funny, I recommend you to keep looking for the others, they get better. I always have to listen to them at least a couple of times to pick up all the subtleties.
Oooo aaaa Glenn McGrath…………
January 5th, 2007 at 9.41 am
Jenny Taylor
Dick Shotoff
Jim Shughes
Jack Doff
Mike Hunt
Pork Hunt
Fark Doff
