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A super game, requirring both brute strength, fearlessness, camaraderie and an encyclopaedic knowledge of constantly changing, stupid and arbitrary rules (exhibit A: the utterly impenetrable off-side rule) thus making itself unusually capable of contributing rich {{tag|metaphor}} to the world of finance — but not quite so capable as that magnificent analog for our collected, desperate existence: [[cricket]].
A super game, requiring both brute strength, fearlessness, camaraderie and an encyclopaedic knowledge of constantly changing, stupid and arbitrary rules (exhibit A: the utterly impenetrable off-side rule) thus making itself unusually capable of contributing rich {{tag|metaphor}} to the world of finance — but not quite so capable as that magnificent analogue for our collected, desperate existence: [[cricket]].


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A super game, requiring both brute strength, fearlessness, camaraderie and an encyclopaedic knowledge of constantly changing, stupid and arbitrary rules (exhibit A: the utterly impenetrable off-side rule) thus making itself unusually capable of contributing rich metaphor to the world of finance — but not quite so capable as that magnificent analogue for our collected, desperate existence: cricket.

See also