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Update on the TV viewing choice of Sunday night.
If only a bare-chested Mr Darcy could play whiff whaff at Olympic level.

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Comments: ogle

And if only a b... Elizabeth ...

(All in the interests of equal rights.)


Posted by Sedgwick at August 24, 2004 02:50 PM

Shutup and watch the B Volley Ball, Sedge ;)

Then again, it may well be a way to spice up the sport. "Squash" tried the same thing a while ago, didn't it?. But then, "squash" is well named for such experiments...
Posted by boynton at August 24, 2004 03:24 PM

Whiff whaff with lashings of bennetian bustle for me.
Posted by Sedgwick at August 24, 2004 03:33 PM

I recall Shakepseare playing at Wimbledon,
http://boynton.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/001284.html
and I think that 'Round the (Regency House) Table' could possibly be an Exhibition sport at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Marvellous Melbourne.

Alternatively at least one of the endless dance sequences in P&P XXVIII could certainly be replaced with a round of Whiff Whaff, without the whole suffering too greatly. imho.
Posted by boynton at August 24, 2004 04:25 PM

If yer like a bit of historical cheesecake, check out Hillary Swank in "The Affair Of The Necklace." Sexiest sneer since Elvis.

Kit Walken's not bad either as Caligostro if yer that way inclined.

Unfortunately, despite Swank, Walken and Pryce's game efforts, the flick itself is more paste than diamond.
Posted by Nabakov at August 24, 2004 08:46 PM

"Alternatively at least one of the endless dance sequences in P&P XXVIII could certainly be replaced with a round of Whiff Whaff, without the whole suffering too greatly. imho."

Richard Curtis was onto it with the second of his studies of cold-climate love and mating habits, "Four Weddings, A Funeral and Several Ho-hum Fcuks."

"Love is like Ping Pong, except with smaller balls."
Posted by Nabakov at August 24, 2004 08:52 PM

I....love....him
Posted by mcb at August 25, 2004 08:07 AM

May check out Kit in historical kit, but meanwhile
that's gotta be the Ping Pong QOTD.

Yep - no dots about it, mcb.
Tenth time round, he's still looking good.
Posted by boynton at August 25, 2004 12:34 PM

what - only ten?!
I'm disappointed, B.
Posted by wen at August 26, 2004 03:24 PM

Scary thing is, wen -
I have the whole series taped. (natch)

And I still wait for next week's episode. In Anticipation.
It's that old thrill of the serial format.
Posted by boynton at August 26, 2004 08:37 PM

whiff whaff

I think it was during a bad round of demon balls I happened to notice a google ad on the side entitled Table Tennis Pioneers... This may indeed be a large firm supplying recreational equipment, but my first image had been some mythic characters from Australian History battling the elements with paddles, making do with ping pong. Or whiff whaff ( as the after dinner amusement was once called.)
I wish I had been around to witness the craze of 1901, if only to receive an invitation like this:

"We are having Ping-Pong on _________ at ___ o'clock. Do join us".

See Table Tennis Postcards at this Table Tennis Antiques Site

There is a fabulous collection of memorabilia to be viewed at the Table Tennis Museum. We've only completed one round of slide-show categories to date - the vintage photographs- that included one South Australian image of Ladies playing Ping Pong under the Vines, but there are many wonderful items to be seen here.

Australian Airmen Relax in London

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Comments: whiff whaff

Here's some more Ping Pong...
http://www.punchbaby.com/media/gitfakt/clips/funny/MatrixPingPong.wmv
Posted by Nora at March 12, 2004 11:02 PM

the airmen are fantastic. munsters.
Posted by David Tiley at March 12, 2004 11:29 PM

Jolly good fun, perfect for a morning in a motel outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Posted by .s at March 14, 2004 01:42 AM

Nice movie, Nora.

I can see the Muntsers connection, David.
The Big question is: Which Airman is holding the Bat?

Hope there is a Recreation Room at the Motel, .s
These always featured a whiff-whaff table with fading bats and nets that had seen better days.


Posted by boynton at March 14, 2004 05:12 PM

whiff

boynton has fielded many queries today re table tennis or


whiff




whaff


See also ping pong


thanks Boris*
"Ping pong was invented on the dining tables of England and it was called whiff whaff".

p and p

Tough choice on the TV tonight.
Olympic Ping Pong on SBS or the games of the 28th Pride and Prejudice on ABC.
Think P&P might just win out over the PP.
But then Miss Boynton could always venture out into the carport for a hit herself, if she can muster up a partner.
Things have been a bit quiet on the whiff whaff front since the Regiment decamped.

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Won't be watching P&P meself, I wouldn't want to risk missing one gripping minute of the last 3495 hours of the disco beach volley ball.
Posted by Sedgwick at August 22, 2004 08:02 PM

i HATE Beach volley Ball with a Prejudice.
But then I guess I'm not the target audience.

When Ch7 delayed Roy and HG for this silly beach pastime, they lost the plot.Again.

More Darcy Watch for me.
Posted by boynton at August 22, 2004 08:08 PM

There's a target audience?!?!

(Pulls himself up to his maximum H.G. decibels and shouts ... TRAVESTY!!!!!!)

It IS a nonsense ... and not a very good nonsense at that.

Bring back rounders! In bathing costumes ... with modesty panels.
Posted by Sedgwick at August 22, 2004 08:34 PM

Pride & Prejudice was a definite for me, poor Jamin-kun went upstairs to bed because he couldnt handle the excitement I displayed at seeing Mr. Darcy.

Oh my!
Posted by Crayon at August 23, 2004 03:37 PM

The Men's Final was a real batbiter.
Posted by Nabakov at August 24, 2004 12:21 AM

the women's beach volleyball is evidence of all that's wrong with today's society... a greedy obsession for everything bared, when the shorts and knee-high socks of traditional volleyball e.g. russia vs cuba is infinitely better pervin... (incidentally, russia started ill-omened, with a player called gamova, and were never going to win)
Posted by nardo at August 24, 2004 12:50 PM

Yes, Crayon, and it was that vintage episode that sent all the hearts a flutter where Darcy takes a plunge. A Regency Triathalon. Equestrian, Swimming and Brooding.

So I missed the Men's Final.

And Sedge and Nardo - I endorse your sentiments entirely. Sporting attire should be more cumbersome. Pervin should be strictly heritage.
An edwardian flash of ankle or knee.
Posted by boynton at August 24, 2004 02:28 PM

ping pong3

Badda-Ping! The Whacky World of Olympic Table Tennis
You may think of Ping-Pong as a goofy game that bored adolescents play in suburban basements until they lose the ball under the radiator. But talk to Reed and her teammates and you learn that table tennis is an intense sport with all the earmarks of big-time athletics -- steroid scandals, colorful characters, Byzantine romances and groupies. Also, there's a lot of glue sniffing.
(via Arts and Letters daily)

I keep running into ping-pong, arts and whiff-whaff daily. Almost inspires a quest for a second- hand table through the Trading Post to set up in this generous suburban carport.

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Comments: ping pong 3

I always thought ping-pong was the version where you had to bounce the ball on your own side rather than hitting it over the net?
Posted by dj at April 1, 2004 10:48 AM

Really?
According to dictionary.com Ping-Pong was
"A trademark used for table tennis and associated equipment.", in a 'sailboard' sort of way?
I don't know if it's taken on this sort of definition from the recreational player's point of view.

btw According to dictionary.com Ping-pong also means:
"A phenomenon which can occur in a
multi-processor system with private caches where two processors are alternately caching a shared location. Each time one writes to it, it invalidates the other's copy."

that's got something to do with bouncing twice over the Net, hasn't it? ;)
Posted by boynton at April 1, 2004 12:43 PM

ping pong2

Online Ping Pong game (via bifurcated rivets)

I like the disembodied game, ghosts playing whiff whaff, but my PC kept crashing. There are certain moments when I can relate to the impulse to punch the computer (via J walk)

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My computer lacks a 3-D accellerator, I have just discovered. I know how it feels. I think it is an issue of age. I am sure I was faster through all three dimensions 20 years ago. Anyway, I am still getting frustrated at those damn demon balls, Boynton, so I probably didn't need another 'challenge'.
Posted by phlip at March 19, 2004 05:51 PM

I think this may just be a bad or temperamental windows or IE. Who knows. But I have now played Ping Pong elswehere, and it is rather challenging.

I'm getting slightly better at Demon Balls.
(I made a big leap once I read the instructions properly and realised that blue has to go on the left!)
Posted by boynton at March 20, 2004 10:41 AM


Yes - it is a frustrating game when you nicely get all the red balls together alone on the wrong side...
Posted by phlip at March 24, 2004 03:05 PM