Comments on: Guardian 24,380 (Rufus) http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/06/guardian-24380-rufus/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 12:32:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Andrew http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/06/guardian-24380-rufus/#comment-23564 Andrew Tue, 06 May 2008 11:37:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1506#comment-23564 I parsed it as:
bring the match alive = STRIKE
playing = ON , which comes “before”
out = ON STRIKE

And there’s also the cricket-related surface reading, which nearly works as an &lit, apart from indicating the wrong part of speech.

]]> By: struggler http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/06/guardian-24380-rufus/#comment-23544 struggler Tue, 06 May 2008 10:43:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1506#comment-23544 17dn – I read this as a triple reference: to lighting a match, to being in (batsman facing the bowler) in cricket, and to getting out of the workplace and onto the picket line.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/06/guardian-24380-rufus/#comment-23512 Andrew Tue, 06 May 2008 08:34:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1506#comment-23512 17dn – surely a reference to the “industrial action” meaning of ON STRIKE, as in “everybody out!”.

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