A Different Drummer

via Tim Blair, a great example of three brilliantly Australian characteristics - an obsession with amateur sport, creative ingenuity and casual marijuana usage:

"The Nerrena cricket club in Gippsland was playing a vital away game when host team Inverloch served up an afternoon tea of green-speckled cupcakes.

"I thought `gee this is pretty good, they usually feed us crap'," Nerrena's Tim Clark said. He ate five cupcakes.......

Three visiting players ate the cakes, which they now believe were laced with either hash or marijuana. Returning to the field following tea, Nerrena's game went to pieces.

One player took almost 20 minutes to put on his pads. Others broke out in hysterical laughter and fled the field during play to drink water........

Mr Clark was still light-headed after the match as he tried to put a kit bike together for that night's club fundraiser.

"After a small lie-down, I tried to follow the instructions but I was all over the shop. I was putting the handlebars where the seat was meant to be."

When he eventually completed the bike, he was four hours late for the club function."

Cricket is also the best sport in the world - what other sports have an afternoon tea break? A Gentleman's game through and through.