Victor Trumper Puns

Mark Waugh is my favourite cricketer. No one in the history of the game has been so defined by elegance and class as he has, and my perfect idea of a rainy night in is watching countless Mark Waugh innings. Watching him cruise to 70 odd then try reverse sweep Phil Tufnell and throw it away. No one in the history of the game, except perhaps Victor Trumper.

He is one of those guys you here stories about but never truly read up on. 3163 runs in test cricket at 39.04. Pretty average it seems. Only 8 test centuries. But what most don't know is that he was the first to 8 centuries, in fact he was the first to 7 as well. But numbers don't begin to tell Trumper's story.

Born in Surry Hills in central Sydney, Trumper was the archetypal middle class boy. We don't know when he was born, but information he gave friends suggest 2 November 1877, that would have made his parents fourteen and unmarried. He went to Crown Street Public School in Surry Hills, showing promise as a young cricketer, playing for the school on their grounds in Moore Park. In fact, Trumper was so tied to this "middle class" life, that he spent most of his life, birth, death and everything in between in what Gideon Haigh calls a "scalene triangle of about 12 square kilometres bounded by Darlinghurst, Paddington and Surry Hills". He would practice in the back lanes and streets of the area, with his father waking him up at 6am to practice batting for two hours before the day began.

His first sign of promise on a wider stage than school cricket, came in 1894, when he made 67 for a NSW XI against the touring English side. This, coupled with his performances for Paddington in the Sydney grade comp (he averaged 62 in grade cricket, the second highest behind Bradman - all time), gave him a start for NSW. His most legendary innings for Paddington came in 1903 against Redfern. He made 335 off 200 in three hours with 22 sixes, although they were only awarded 5 runs back then. It included a 120 metre hit which broke the window of a nearby factory. Supposedly, the owners were not unhappy, but rather "proud" to have their windows broken by the great Victor Trumper.

Trumper's own style could not have come at a better time in cricket. Elegance and class were beginning to come to the forefront of the minds of those in cricket, not just functionality, pioneered by those such as Ranji and CB Fry. But slow scoring was still the norm. One constant throughout his entire life was his 'look'. That when anyone saw

I'm looking for a retro cricket poster, ideally one of Victor Trumper's famous photograph (http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/11/07/1225948/986160-victor-trumper.jpg)

I looked on the usual sites, but no luck. Anyone have leads as to where I could find something cool?

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

A play on words.

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms