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Craig Brown

English Critic

Born: May 23, 1957

Being Game Life People School You

Related authors: Aleister Crowley Charles Lamb Charlie Brooker Clive Bell John Churton Collins Terry Eagleton Walter Pater William Hazlitt

The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another. Craig Brown

Saying News People Increasingly Another Full Daft Things

How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.' Craig Brown

Beautiful Game Hate Analyst Supporters Perhaps Most How Sinister Managers Owners Little Players

Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling. Craig Brown

Me School Before Every Speedy Rule Run Introduce Would Stay Give Thus New Along Another Ball Said Motion Leaves Were His Left Up Whack Rolling Stops After Golf Golf Ball Hole Personally Moment Each Player Belong Tee

It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other. Craig Brown

Great Me You Looking Other Everyday Virtue Strikes Out Bothers House Gets Endless Golf Round Away

Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence. Craig Brown

Confidence Worn Complete Blazer May Alan Last

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time. Craig Brown

Time Great People Dinner Nothing Difficult Consolation Out See Eat Something Talk Without How Up Forget Same Going Quite Same Time Cook Stranger Many Wash Chance Need

By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher. Craig Brown

Thatcher Artistic Establishment Large Margaret Margaret Thatcher

Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game. Craig Brown

Game Will First Before Has-Been Table Insisted Throughout Consulting Generally He Clear Making Opponents Occurs Been Dictionary Scrabble Often Irritated Placed Board Grow Bringing

What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most interesting way of reminding us that our streets exist above and beyond the here-and-now. Craig Brown

Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger. Craig Brown

Women Men Something Directions Never Know Ask Stranger

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