You know, I play rugby for a Kenyan club called Nondescripts RFC. Its a pretty old club, with about 80years of tradition behind it and experience too. At the club we have a tradition of awarding and fining offenders and heroes of the day at the end of each match. What happens is you (hero/villain) get to stand on a bar stool in full view of the entire composition of the club and you get to down a beer (500ml of freezing cold beer) in a set amount of time as we sing you a song. All this is well and good but what happened the other day sends me into stitches of laughter...
The'Man of the Match' was being awarded his prize for the day but first the finemaster had to give a bit of a speech. In his speech (it was pretty long) he said '...I was gobsmacked by the efficiency with which we were turning over the ball to our favour...". This would be a pretty normal statement in an area of great sobriety but in the inebriated state we were in, the guy next to me stands up and says " He was Gob-Smacked?" "Who the hell is Gob?Thya have a player called Gob?Did you know they had a player called Gob?and why did he smack him on the pitch?where were the rest of us to help him?" of course this sent us into fits of laughter and such like behaviour but weeks later I decided to just ask, who the hell sanctioned the use of such a word, gobsmacked and what pray do tell does it mean?
I still wonder...
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