Dovina19 Feb 2006

As any English gentleman would have immediately recognized, I was speaking of bowls, a game played on a smooth lawn with wooden balls, which are rolled to stop as near as possible to a target ball. The balls are ellipsoids (squashed black eggs), and the players wear white uniforms (lily-whites). An English gentleman would also know that an adjective cannot follow a preposition unless an noun follows the adjective. Furthermore, your extrapolation of an implied circle in my perfectly understandable sentence is absurd.