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Here in the UK, cricket was the summer sport played at my school. I didn't know the rules. Every Tuesday afternoon I'd ask the PE teacher to explain the rules. Every week he laughed and said "everyone knows how to play cricket".
I still haven't the faintest idea what the rules are, or even what the objective is. I was sitting on a village green last week just enjoying life, with a match going on. All the players were wearing the same kit so no idea who was on what side. Suddenly, out of the blue, they all just suddenly applauded, went off the pitch and that was the end. No idea who won, even though there were loads of numbers on the scoreboard.
What's this got to do with today's clue? I'm assuming it's cricket related...?
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In cricket, an "over" is 6 deliveries of the ball by the bowler to the batsman. They're actually trying to throw the ball past the batsman to knock the stumps (bails) off the wicket to get him out (ineligible to score).
So the "over" in today's CCC answer is indeed cricket related. At least as far as this person - who has never played (or even watched) a game - understands it. 
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All I know of cricket is that wickets are sticky. (Whatever that means...)
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The wicket is the area around the stumps (3 small posts set in a line). The batsman protects them from being hit by the ball thrown by the bowler. When the wicket gets wet, say from rain, it is called sticky. The ball bounces differently and it become more difficult for the batsman. Thus, a sticky wicket is a difficult situation.
I hope you realize you're getting your information from someone who looked into the game over 40 years ago and has never played, or even watched, a game of cricket. So take these nuggets of cricket knowledge for what they're worth.
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Thank you for the explanation.
So it looks like you went to Bemidji State in MN? Beautiful area!
My youngest sister attended there in the mid 80's. I attended St. Cloud State in the late 70's.
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I did indeed go to Bemidji State, from 76-80. I was born and raised in Bemidji and in fact my mother, sister and brother still live there. It was Bemidji State College when I started but it joined the university system around 1978. So officially I have a BS degree from BSU. 
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Univac 1106 for assembler (and COBOL perhaps) with the actual hardware in Mankato and your data center having IBM 80 column card punch machines, a card reader, and a noisy green bar 132 column "high speed" printer?
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Ding! Ding! On the nose!
We had IBM 026 and 029 card punch machines. We turned our card decks into the operations center where students read/ran them, returning the card deck wrapped in greenbar about an hour or two later. A few of us befriended a couple of the operators (bribing them with πΊ actually) to get our decks jumped to the front of the line.
We would also log (dial) into the MECC or MERITS systems (also in Mankato) for Basic and Pascal programming. I believe that was a CDC Cyber-70 series mainframe. I think we actually did our assembly programming on these as well. Oh man, those 330 BAUD deckwriters were screaming fast machines I tell you what! 
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So when is someone going to come up with an Agile methodology based on cricket terminology?
It might help left ponders learn more cricket termsβ¦
Over == sprint, must always include at least six user stories
Test match == epic
Wicket keeper(?) == scrum master
Bowler == product owner
Batsman == developer
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Best swap I ever made!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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He's probably going to yell at you in Porschuguese.
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Now you can't drive him nuts. On second thought now you can drive him nuts. As the saying goes "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." Only a few minutes ago I learned why it is called 911. It is because 901 was taken. - Happy Motoring
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Do you mean you swapped your husband for a Porsche 911?
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That's the joke, yes
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Yeah, but now do you have a source of gas?
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No, she swapped him for the car ...
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It has that whole "Gift of the magi" feel to it.
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I knew a guy who owned a Porsche, corrected you when you said Porsche instead of "Porsje", and when a Porsche drove by he went to the window to look at it.
We were in the office and our neighbor owned a Porsche, which we saw when he opened his garage that one time, guy went over to talk to him about Porsches immediately.
I wouldn't be surprised if the guy really traded his wife for a Porsche 
Funny thing, the son of someone at the office dropped by once in a while and drove a sporty Mazda.
One time he hit the Porsche when he tried to park his car 
Small dent, I think it cost him a month's salary (of a student) to get it fixed (he was insured, as that's obligated by law over here, but I think he did this one outside of his insurance to keep his costs low).
The Porsche-guy was all like "some stuck-up youngster want to drive a fast car, well now he's got to pay."
The Mazda-guy was a really nice dude though, came in apologizing thousands of times, knowing how fond this guy was of his Porsche.
Of all the cars he could've hit...
Fun stuff
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Sander Rossel wrote: I knew a guy who owned a Porsche, corrected you when you said Porsche instead of "Porsje", and when a Porsche drove by he went to the window to look at it.
That's the point where you're supposed to correct him back, the proper pronunciation is "dbagmobile".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Sander Rossel wrote: Of all the cars he could've hit...
...of all the cars he could've hit, he chose to park next to this one. That's not so accidental (pardon the pun). If he couldn't have avoided hitting a car, he could've avoided hitting that particular one by going much, much farther away.
That's why I don't park anywhere near dbagmobiles.
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At last. Now you have somethinβ useful in your garage.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Which can't clear a clogged drain.
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