On 9 Apr 2002, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote: > > > -- > > Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ > > "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 > > I love this quote. It takes a few seconds before you realize what that > statistic implies --- and there's the added pleasure of knowing that > the commentator probably didn't. >
You remember I said I was going to paint my bedroom? Well, I didn't mention that that's where my internet point is. That's why I'm following up only after a few days! Anyway, there's a nice follow-up to this quote. I caught out another BBC commentator with it, quite inadvertently. Brits may be familiar with one of our top radio cricket commentators, Christopher Martin-Jenkins of Test Match Special. During a rain break in one match, I emailed the program, and my email was read out. But CMJ didn't seem very interested in the content of the mail, only the sig. "This is Henman's eighth Wimbledon, and he's only lost seven matches," he said. "That's good, isn't it!" -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
