ButteredFrog 🧈🐸

Former indoor cricketer, and lover of sports played over 5-23 days
Technical assistant to @musettedutour for her photographic efforts

[ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 @ButteredFrog]

Random new followers beware - tweets on this account heavily weighted to professional cycling and pisstaking

[ButteredFrog 🧈🐸 @ButteredFrog]

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[SHD766 @SHD766]

Top 4 Ranking Worse Pitches In Cricket .

[visionaryvoid @Visionaryvoid]

Julian Lennon, John Lennon’s son, shared a tweet after running into his dad's Beatles bandmate, Sir Paul McCartney, in an airport lounge.

In a cool twist, Paul was actually listening to a song from Julian’s new album “Jude” on his phone at that very moment.

As many people know, the Beatles’ famous song “Hey Jude” was originally written as “Hey Jules” by Paul back in 1968. It was inspired by Julian, who was only 5 years old at the time, after his father John split from his mom, Cynthia, for Yoko. That’s why Julian named his new album “Jude.”

Now, Paul is 84, and Julian is 63!

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Two sisters singing the same song, year by year since 2012… It just made me smile the whole video and then everything started getting blurry 😭😭

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

I’m at a fast food place where Mambo #5 was just playing and it’s the first time I realized not a single couplet in the chorus actually rhymes.

[psychotronica @psychotronica_]

The Dangers of Breakdancing
1984 / KWCH-12 / Wichita, KS
⚠️sound on⚠️

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

“Xanadu” was written and produced by Jeff Lynne specifically for the 1980 musical fantasy film Xanadu. Performed by Olivia Newton-John with the Electric Light Orchestra, the song was recorded at Musicland Studios in Munich, with Olivia providing the lead vocals and ELO contributing the instrumentation and backing vocals.

Released in 1980, “Xanadu” became a major international hit, reaching No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks and No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also topped the charts in several European countries and became the only UK No. 1 credited to ELO. The film's dance sequences had already been shot to an earlier demo of the song. When ELO recorded the final version, they had to match the demo's tempo so the finished recording would synchronise with the footage, giving the song its slightly unusual rhythmic feel.

[GFrei.News @GFreiNews]

2005 stellte Sony in San Francisco offenbar die einzig vernünftige Frage, die man sich beim Bewerben neuer Fernseher stellen kann:

„Was wäre, wenn wir 250.000 bunte Gummibälle einen Berg hinunterhüpfen?“

Und dann taten sie es einfach.

Eine Viertelmillion echte Flummis, zwölf gesperrte Straßen und ein Team, das vermutlich sehr schnell bereute, im Vertrag nicht nach einer Gefahrenzulage gefragt zu haben.

Für den legendären Werbespot „Balls“ kaufte die Produktion angeblich praktisch jeden verfügbaren Gummiball westlich des Mississippi auf. In amerikanischen Kaugummiautomaten herrschte daraufhin für eine Weile vermutlich jene trostlose Leer.

Damit die Bälle nicht bloß bergab kullerten, baute das Effektteam gewaltige Druckluftkanonen.

Und wie es funktionierte.

Die Flummis erreichten Berichten zufolge Geschwindigkeiten von über 160 km/h. Das Kamerateam trug Schutzkleidung, Helme und benutzte teilweise Schutzschilde.

Beim ersten Abschuss verwandelte sich die Straße in ein kontrolliertes Experiment zur Chaostheorie. Bälle flogen über Häuser, sprangen einen ganzen Häuserblock wieder bergauf und landeten in Abflüssen, die eigentlich weit außerhalb der berechneten Flugzone lagen.

24 eigens bereitgestellte Autos und sechs Häuser wurden beschädigt; allein kaputte Fenster sollen rund 74.000 Dollar gekostet haben. Ein Crewmitglied sah später beim Einchecken ins Hotel – mehrere Meilen vom Drehort entfernt – noch einen einzelnen Gummiball über den Bürgersteig hüpfen.

Nach jedem Take begann die eigentliche Heldentat: das Einsammeln von 250.000 Flummis an den steilsten Straßen San Franciscos. Dafür gab es besondere Schaufeln, Netze und sogenannte „Ball Wranglers“.

Noch Jahre später sollen Anwohner einzelne Bälle in Dachrinnen und Abflüssen gefunden haben. Manche bewahrten sie als Souvenir auf. Damit ist der Spot vermutlich die einzige Werbekampagne, deren Requisiten zwei Jahrzehnte später noch selbstständig in Garagen auftauchen.

Das Ergebnis war aber eine der schönsten Werbungen der 2000er: eine unwirkliche Lawine aus Farbe, gefilmt in Zeitlupe und begleitet von José González’ „Heartbeats“. 🔴🟡🟢🔵

[Margaret @Margaret9908]

Why Elevators Used to Fall?

[Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians @ACScricket]

Born in Bombay, Harlequin cap & all
Led Eng in 15 Tests, won 9, lost 1
Bodyline, 1932-33: the Ashes regained, a Dominion nearly lost
1296 runs @ 48.00 in 22 Tests
Douglas Jardine born #onthisday 1900 #cricketcounts

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

A century ago, Britain and France drew a line through German 'Kamerun' in Africa. The line itself disappeared from the map decades ago.

Yet it still divides Cameroon by language, law, education, and increasingly, by armed conflict.

This is Cameroon’s “Anglophone Problem”.

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[Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians @ACScricket]

Marnus Labuschagne has gone 47 Test match innings without a ton. This equals the Australian record number of innings of a Top 4 Test match batter failing to get a 100. The person who he now holds the record with? Alick Bannerman who played his last Test in 1893. #cricketcounts

[australian womens cricket with very little context @awcwvlc]

🤝 @OfficialSLC

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[Epic Vault @TheEpicVault]

You'd swear it was CGI, but the elves only look tiny because they stand much farther from the camera than Will Ferrell.

Jon Favreau shot Elf's North Pole scenes with forced perspective, placing actors at different distances so they lined up as if side by side.

The trick goes back to the silent film era, and I'd argue it's why Elf, out in 2003, still charms while plenty of CGI holiday films from then look dated.

[Pedal Vintage @PedalVintage]

Hoy cumple años el mejor lanzador que tuvo Cavendish:

[Eurosport France @Eurosport_FR]

VOICI LE TRACÉ DU TOUR DE FRANCE 2027 🤩

La Grande Boucle sera à suivre du 2 au 25 juillet sur Eurosport

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

So THAT’S where it ended up.

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[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

A new football prodigy child named Diego Maradona makes his professional debut aged just 15 years old on the Argentinos Juniors against Tallares Cordoba.

He is the youngest professional player in football history.