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My daughter's boyfriend, Josh, in an attempt to cause me to realize the lure of sports, directed me to what he calls the "Most Intelligent Football Board Online."
He directed me to Cyberhigh Stadium: www.denverbroncos.cjb.net
OK. I went there. I clicked on a forum. This is what I read there:
Playoff takes. Whats Yours?
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I think the Ravens will beat Miami, but I hope I'm wrong.
I think Philly will beat Tampa, but could care less.
I think the Packers will beat the 9ers, I hope I'm right.
I don't really know what to think about the Raiders/Jets game, but I hope the Jets win.
My playoff picks look like this
Ravens
Philly
Packers
Jets
What gives? I don't understand what's the lure of this kind of discussion??????? This is the strangest thing to consider--and to hear Josh keeps coming back to this board to read what someone else has listed.
Stranger than Strange,
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I don't understand what's the lure of this kind of discussion???????
Res ipse loquitur.
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Despite my having been male for as long as I can remember, I've yet to figure this "guy thing" out either.
Heck, I still don't even know why we US'ns call modified rugby football, when the rest of the world plays REAL football.
Geoff, donning flack jacket, hiding in bunker.
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Geoff,
There's a lot of folks sharing that bunker with ya.
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Dear AnnaS:
Care to translate the Latin? There are those of us who don't know it.
Best regards,
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vereŽ, latinam non est loqui dificilissimum.
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translate the Latin
You were probably baffled by that loquitur. It's a deponent verb; passive in form, active in meaning.
The thing speaks for itself.
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And me, I'm one of the few Americans who has absolutely no interest in football. Or maybe the ones who are interested are just more vocal... 
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And me, I'm one of the few Americans who has absolutely no interest in football.I have an interest in football...when do the Bill's play next, so I don't drive past the Stadium on the way to the Mall! Tee hee
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Where is Jackie when we need her?
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Where is Jackie when we need her?Er...you rang? 
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I believe there are a few *Latinos here that need to be assimilated.
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Well, I don't understand the bloody Latin. I wish you Latin people would put in white translations for us varlets.
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Oh! The other shoe just dropped--I think.
"Res ipse loquitur." ... "The thing speaks for itself."
"The thing speaks for itself" IS the translation??
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"The thing speaks for itself" IS the translation??
Yep.
but I messed up on my genders. It should be ipsa (as Keiva knows) not ipse.
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messed up on my genders
Which was *my fault. I gave her res ipse loquitur from memory. Upon reading Keiva's version I googled about 60 hits for ipse and three thousand some odd for ipsa so I looked it up in an old Latin text book and discovered that it's ipse, ipsa, ipsum mfn and res is feminine.
QED
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No credit to me, A & F. In law, it's a reasonably common and familiar term.
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So do you agree it speaks for itself re: football message boards, Keiva? 
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What a board! Where else could a sports thread have more posts about latin than about sports?
America gonif!
[running off to watch the Bulls game -e]
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