-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.20 Feb 2006

"Furthermore, your extrapolation of an implied circle in my perfectly understandable sentence is absurd."

Originally, I had written 'wearing lily-whites', because I thought you might be referring to cricket clothes (which are actually called 'Whites'.) But I changed it because I'd never heard of anyone referring to them as 'lily-whites', and because when I looked up lily-white in the dictionary I found this:

"Lily-white adj. Excluding or seeking to exclude Black people"

If you want a prize for knowing more about bowls than me you can have one. But given that it's a rather obscure game that only incredibly old people (and weirdos) play, and given that when all else had failed I had rather sensibly resorted to the dictionary definition of the word (you know, the book containing the ACTUAL definitions of words according to leading wordsmiths), and given that your original sentence WAS unparsable, I don't think my interpretation was particularly absurd. What IS absurd is that you still think your sentence was perfectly understandable. Even to a nobel prize winner in bowls and bowls accessories, it was massively tits-up.