For my Aussie friends

Wasnt it great? You'd just scored the highest ever runs for a one day game? Broken a record... and then we broke it again! The Protea's beat your new world record just hours after you had set it, as well as the record for most runs scored by an individual, and most sixes hit... and...and...and.

'World records were smashed like guitars as South Africa beat Australia by one wicket with one ball to spare before a sell-out crowd of 32,000 at Johannesburg's Wanderers Stadium to clinch the series 3-2'

'Ponting just wants his team to move on and is confident the defeat won't greatly affect his team's psyche going into the Tests. "We've got to try and forget what's happened today as quickly as we can," said Ponting.'
- http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Proteas-beat-Aussies-in-oneday-thriller

I've never been the greatest of Cricket fans, its a game of repetition, throw ball, hit ball, fetch ball... throw ball again. You can only watch that kind of silliness for so long, but on Sunday, my hangover and I sat down on the couch and for the rest of the day, enjoyed, no wait, loved the silliness.

Its amazing how such a simple game can inspire patriotism, create a sense of pride, and cause an unquenchable thirst, or was that the Babbelas?

If any Australian reading this still doesnt understand that word that Gibbs used on Sunday evening, 'Babbelas' is the afrikaans slang for hangover, and no I have no idea about its origins. Pronounced: bubble-us