From the BBC website for Balderdash and Piffle - can we help them with the their definition of 'Jaffa'? jaffa Wanted: Printed evidence before 1993; information of the word's origin. Can any cricketers out there tell us why an unplayable delivery is now known as a 'jaffa'? This is an example of a term that isn't yet in the OED. The earliest reference so far refers to Australian Shane Warne's delivery to Mike Gatting of England in 1993.
Remember a South African guest commentator (Mike Proctor?) in the early 90s explaining it's 'cos the delivery is 'too juicy for the batsman', or something like that. That was first time I heard it.
Risk *shiver* That game is like someone whos just had a curry sitting on your face, so torturous on my mind.</p> Pinky and the Brain, thats how far my conquering the world gets</p>
RE: Risk *shiver* Not played it since I was a kid....when I used to get beaten easily by my older siblings. The young un got it for Christmas so I was having him a game....they've change the rules a bit since I last played.
Well I enjoyed it but if they stick to the same format every week it could rather thin. They research a word and try and identify its earliest use and then mostly fail to convince the big knobs at the OED of the fact.
