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Greetings, All! Glad to see you again!

Люди! Кто разбирается в крикете? :) Hет, это не совсем оффтопик; сейчас вы
поймете, в чем дело.

Вот фирменная предыстория к Диззи 2:

"Dizzy was looking forward to the round-the-world cruise he'd booked
up for. When he told the other Yolkfolk about the good deal he found,
they wondered just what lay ahead of him...
Dizzy enjoyed the cruise at first although there were far too many
pirates on the ship, the Grog was watered down, and he didn't even know
what a mainbrace was, let alone how to splice it!
The captain, Long John Silver, was a lovely old bloke with a kindly
manner, good at insulting and degrading the fare paying punters.
He was well balanced - he had parrot on one shoulder and a chip on the
other - and he had a wooden leg which he acquired when he fell out of
his pram when he was a kid.
Anyhow, their quaint little man o' war found itself in still waters one
sun-soaked afternoon, and Dizzy thought he would organise a game of
cricket on the aft deck. In a fit of blinding stupidity he used LJ's
spare leg collection as makeshift stumps, and when they were lost
overboard he was made to walk the plank!
That was how he came to find himself gently poaching on the silent,
sun-kissed beach of a seemingly deserted island... He had to somehow
find away back to the Yolkfolk and lodge his compensation claim with
the travel agent..."

So, from the penultimate paragraph it follows that Dizzy decided to organize a game of
cricket at the stern. Well, stupidly, he used Captain
Silver's collection of crutches as 'makeshift stumps'. What is this? The dictionary gives the following
interpretation:

makeshift - temporary, replacement and etc., with this it is clear

stump - stump, stump, hobble, stump

It is absolutely clear that in cricket this word means something else.
What? Maybe some kind of bats or gates? :)

HELP!

PS: Does anyone else know how best to translate the phrase “walk the plank”? it will do, since the pirates call it somehow
original, in their own way.

Hasta la vista, All! See you in Eden!

·∙ Novikov Sergei AKA Spirit/CS [Team ZX ASM] ∙·

Hello Sergei !

Tuesday June 03 1997 20:51, Sergei Novikov ─── All:

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SN> ЗЫ: Может кто еще и знает, как лучше перевести фразу "walk the plank"?
SN> Просто "пройтись по доске" вряд ли пойдет, так как у пиратов это называется
SN> somehow original, in its own way. Имхо.
А по-моему, именно так это и называется - "пойтись (пpогуляться) по доске".

Good luck ! Evgeny.