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Pillock of the month
By Will 8 months ago, Comments
The Times’s Patrick Kidd has given up his attempt to be a polite cricket correspondent, and has announced a new monthly competition: The Line and Length Pillock of the Month.
It’s a damn fine idea, and god knows we have a host of losers to choose from. Pillock is one of those excellent words that can be used in all circles of life. You can call a bowler a pillock; a builder a pillock; your colleague a pillock. We’re all pillocks, at some time or another. Other favourite words include twassock, tosser, cretin, spanner, spoon and - Cricinfo London’s latest favourite - numpty.
My brother once ordered me to call one of his mates a cretin and I, aged about six, got a smack round the face for it. Ergo, my brother is not a cretin but a tosser. I am considerably taller than him now though, despite continued threats into my twenties that he will sever my ankles.
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