The umpire during a tennis match, reads out a fairytale, joke, news report or whatever has been organised before the match, through a PA system so everyone in the stadium can listen quite clearly. The delivery has pauses here and there to coincide with each player hitting and returning the ball - as well as ruling for the match.

" It was very late.. yet the little mermaid ... could ...not take her eyes from the ship ....or from the ... beautiful . .. OUT! ADVANTAGE RODDICK!"

The traditional badminton version, centers mostly around Aesop's Fables, and players may dress as the characters in these delightful strories for children.
-- benfrost, Feb 15 2005

[+] for the name.
-- Pericles, Feb 16 2005


Funny how you start rating ideas on the creator's past performance. I was about to bone this as it's pretty below par for [benfrost], but that seems to be unfair punishment for him having posted some really funny ones before. Neutral.
-- wagster, Feb 16 2005


There's so much drivel on the Bakery these days, so I thought it was time to revive some of the minor classics (in my opinion) Gem - especially the title +
-- xenzag, Nov 09 2007


hehe, thanks [xen] +
-- xandram, Nov 09 2007



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