2015.04.14 It's All About Richie

Cricket is a game full of forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and it's rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business. - George Orwell


Show Notes

NEWS

RIP Richie Benaud http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Benaud

RIP Malcolm Fraser

RIP Lee Kuan Yew

RIP Germanwings plane and passengers

RIP 2UE Newsroom http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-14/4bc-sackings-alan-jones-and-ray-hadley-to-air-in-brisbane/6391998

RIP Güaut;nter Grass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass

RIP The Iron Ore Gravy train (and WA's Secession Dreams)

RIP Muhammad Kamaruzzaman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Kamaruzzaman

RIP James Best aka Sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane of Hazzard County http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Best

RIP The Rev Gordon Moyes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moyes

RIP Malaysian chopper crash victims http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/black-box-data-from-chopper-crash-inconclusive-says-report

RIP Dick Wood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Wood

RIP Sarah Brady http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Brady

RIP All the men of colour murdered by various police departments in the US

RIP Per Wilhelm Bruel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Vilhelm_Br%C3%BCel

RIP Akhil Mehta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhil_Mehta

RIP Tuti Yusupova http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuti_Yusupova

RIP Julie Hutchinson http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-13/husband-charged-with-murder-of-julie-hutchinson/6389794

RIP Stephanie Scott

PMs of Oz

Number 14: John Curtin.

Bananaland

McCool and Benaud http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/50517468 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_McCool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Meckiff

The 1960 Tied Test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indian_cricket_team_in_Australia_in_1960%E2%80%9361 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tied_Test http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/current/match/62888.html

World

Pommies mourn Richie too... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-32251510

SPORT

Smoothex Shaving Cream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULp1mkalFQI

Richie is Angry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvGHC7REkdM

Billy Birmingham chats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvGHC7REkdM

u.s.w.


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