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#209470 - 02/08/13 09:36 PM Re: Football? [Re: BranShea]
Tromboniator addict Registered: 05/10/10 Posts: 690 Loc: Alaska	Originally Posted By: BranShea "Then get a shot" Get a shot? When he gives one? I ain't askin', I'm just askin'. It's simple: Faldage's "get a shot " means "obtain a photo" (or "take a picture"). If the player "gets a shot" or "has a shot," he has an opportunity to score, whether or not he takes the shot. If he scores, he makes the shot. Generally a doctor or nurse gives a shot, in which case the recipient gets a shot. See? Simple! So you could get a shot of the player getting a shot after getting a shot. Or the other way round.
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#209471 - 02/08/13 09:46 PM Re: Football? [Re: Tromboniator]
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	Originally Posted By: Tromboniator The photo on the right should be labeled Elbowegg. heh _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#209472 - 02/08/13 10:46 PM Re: Football? [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
jenny jenny addict Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 614 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	See BranShe? This is what you get for you a foreigner questioning that last bastion of American malehood i.e. American Football Gee, BranShe, that's all they have left.
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#209473 - 02/09/13 09:27 AM Re: Football? [Re: jenny jenny]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3269 Loc: R'lyeh	that's all they have left Please then might I sell it to somebody else. I'll take five bucks or best offer. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#209474 - 02/09/13 09:39 AM Re: Football? [Re: jenny jenny]
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	Originally Posted By: jenny jenny See BranShe? This is what you get for you a foreigner questioning that last bastion of American malehood i.e. American Football Gee, BranShe, that's all they have left. but, I'm an American, and I started this thread.... _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#209487 - 02/10/13 12:03 PM Re: Football? [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
jenny jenny addict Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 614 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi	Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu Originally Posted By: jenny jenny See BranShe? This is what you get for you a foreigner questioning that last bastion of American malehood i.e. American Football Gee, BranShe, that's all they have left. but, I'm an American, and I started this thread.... See? You Americans still can laugh at yourselves and sometimes you should. I should know as I am a American too but not a American male so I don't laugh with them but at them. They are a strange bunch.
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#209490 - 02/10/13 12:24 PM Re: Football? [Re: jenny jenny]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1029 Loc: Lancaster, UK	As an English, male, one-time follower of 'the beautiful game,' [i.e., Soccer (Association Foorball)] may I say that tsuwm has it right - the player "takes a shot" at the goal. Leastwise, he does in English - and we did invent the game!
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#209493 - 02/10/13 03:25 PM Re: Football? [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Originally Posted By: Rhubarb Commando As an English, male, one-time follower of 'the beautiful game,' [i.e., Soccer (Association Football)] may I say that tsuwm has it right - the player "takes a shot" at the goal. Leastwise, he does in English - and we did invent the game! Ah...he "takes a shot" at the goal. That sounds like action to me. Thanks. He gets the ball and takes a shot at the goal.
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#209497 - 02/10/13 05:53 PM Re: Football? [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	And by "get a shot" I did mean "obtain a photograph".
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#209500 - 02/11/13 06:18 AM Re: Football? [Re: Faldage]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Yes thank you, that was adequately explained by Tromboniatior xept that the last phrase was bit confusing and Geenny Geenny added off track bastions. Thanks for clearing this simple language matter.
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