Musings and Amusings

'That mans got balls'

I am not a sports fan at all, but I think that I might give croquet a try.

A male streaker running across the croquet lawn gave members of the Takaro Croquet Club in Palmerston North more than they bargained for at their club day on Sunday morning.

Manawatu Croquet Club publicity officer Rex Oliver said the streaker "appeared, completely nude, at one corner and disappeared in the other. No-one was fast enough to catch him."

The naked young man caused quite a stir and may have given the club a selling point. "I don't think any other croquet clubs have had a streaker, it might help attract the lady members," Oliver said.

"It's not the sort of thing you expect at croquet. Perhaps it was a dry run for something later on. Perhaps he wants to get into the business." Streaker disrupts croquet (The Press 25/09/07)

Word of the moment.......

And thanks to Max Aspinall in a letter to the editor; a new word for the English Language: "clarked"- economic massacre by bureaucracy or taxation.