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November 29, 2010
Woman Mistaken for Cricket Match: An American Twitter user called TheAshes has been mistaken for The Ashes, receiving hundreds of misdirected messages. "I am not a freaking cricket match!" wrote the exasperated woman, whose plight has inspired a #gettheashestotheashes movement, a T-shirt and an offer of a free flight to Australia from Qantas Airways.
She's good to go, as long as the Qantas craft that takes her there isn't sporting any of those recently newsworthy oil-sumping Rolls-Royce Airbus engines.
Anyone who has ever owned a British car would probably be perfectly comfortable getting on the plane. What British motor or engine doesn't have an amusing little oil-related issue now and then?
posted by beaverboard at 06:41 PM on November 29, 2010
Most of the British cars in North America were built by Ford. I'd take a modern British car against most of the crap we're spewing out these days. Plastic dashboards and live axles, good grief.
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 07:52 PM on November 29, 2010
That's awesome! LOL!
posted by Drood at 08:11 PM on November 29, 2010
Good luck to her! Now tweet me at twitter.com/TheMasters.
posted by JJ at 07:02 AM on November 30, 2010
A couple of funny tweets:
# I may not know anything about cricket, but my mom doesn't know anything about the internet...
# @luvshorses68 Don't be ridiculous mom. People are just having fun. Dont reply to anyone.
Sunday, November 28, 2010 8:16:31 PM via HootSuite
Sunday, November 28, 2010 8:03:11 PM via web in reply to luvshorses68
posted by NoMich at 07:13 AM on November 30, 2010
Just went to her twitter page, looks like she's now having some fun with it--good for her!!!
posted by jagsnumberone at 12:45 AM on December 01, 2010
Ride it baby. Ride it allllllll the way.