[Ads-l] [QI] When does the game begin?

[mr_peter_morris@outlook.com]

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2025/12/12/cricket-start/#more-453290

attributed to Groucho Marx, 1964

Here's the joke in 1928

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/P_S/tKiFAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=cricket+%22when+does+the+game+begin%22&dq=cricket+%22when+does+the+game+begin%22&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/P_S/tKiFAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%20game%20begin%22&dq=cricket%20%22when%20does%20the%20game%20begin%22&printsec=frontcover

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org