Glossary

The Gabba – Is the spectacular Brisbane Cricket Ground found amazingly in Brisbane, Australia, home of the Mighty Queensland Bulls and site of the First test of any Australian summer. Over the years (opened in 1895 as I found out) it has seen many highlights of the game of cricket including Dean Jones setting a new Australian One Day Highest Score (at the time) of 145, Smiling SK Warne bowling for figures of 7/85 against Pakistan, Glenn McGrath bundling out the West Indies for under 150 in the year 2000 including Lara for a Duck and it was also the site of the first ever Tied Test in 1960. The name is derived from the location of the cricket ground, just outside the Brisbane CBD the Gabba is located in the suburb of Woolloongabba (which is an Aboriginal word but I am finding conflicting stories as to its meaning)

The Gabba Stack – Born of the last days of the mighty Gabba Hill, when the ‘tinnie’ (a can of beer) was phased out and replaced by the Plastic Cup, patrons found that as they finished a cup of beer and picked up another it could be ‘stacked’ inside the empty cup. There has been some cheap knock offs appearing since, some from AFL fans others from sporting grounds around the world, however true historians always pay credit where credit is due and thus it is called a Gabba Stack. There has been some conjecture as to the need to stack ones plastic cups together, research has been done on the insulation pluses of the stack i.e. keeping beer cooler the more cups in a stack. Also significant testing has been done on the higher the stack the less distance there is between hand and mouth, but ultimately there is nothing of any validity, The Gabba Stack is ultimately a good place to put your empties and just a bit of fun.

Wife Beater – the traditional uniform of competitors in the Gabba-Stack-a-Thon. A Dark Blue singlet, snugly (but not tight) fitted and the more faded the better. In different circles it is referred to as a ‘Jackie Howe’ or a ‘Truckies Singlet’. Generally made by Bonds

Beer – an alcoholic beverage made from water, yeast, hops and barley. Served cold. Makes a man into a hero and a woman into the one he wants to marry.

A Glassing – see http://needstobeglassed.blogspot.com

Cricket – a game played with bats and balls and two teams of eleven. One side will ‘bat’ and one side will ‘bowl’………oh who am I fucking kidding, if you don’t know what cricket is and you are reading this site then you are in the wrong place, please go back to surfing the interweb.

I am sick of creating a Glossary so for any more words you find in this Blog that you don’t understand I refer you to www.wikipedia.org. (any nicknames we use in the commentary will hopefully be self explanatory, otherwise you can check out, www.abc.gov.au/cricket/ and then draw conclusions between what we have said and what Jimmy Maxwell has said, come on use your brains people)