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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Re: Vocabulary lessons from the Sydney Olympics #6536 09/15/00 05:18 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta One of my holiday jobs was stacking supermarket shelves, and I seem to remember being told then there was a legal difference under consumer protection. Above a certain number to the pint? gallon? they were prawns, and below that they were shrimps. It made sense to me, or why is "shrimp" used as an insult for the smaller amongst us? You can't imagine a lager lout yelling "hey prawn" rather than "hey shrimp" can you? Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Vocabulary lessons from the Sydney Olympics #6537 09/15/00 07:35 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 J jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah J Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 The Olympic ceremony is just starting - we're promised plenty of seafood! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Vocabulary lessons from the Sydney Olympics #6538 09/17/00 06:16 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia B Bridget addict Bridget addict B Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia ...and I clicked on this thread thinking it would be the perfect place to report on a piece of Olympic commentary: 'the team must be jubilating' Aargh! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Vocabulary lessons from the Sydney Olympics #6539 09/17/00 01:36 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass To utter sounds of joy or exultation; to make demonstrations of joy; to rejoice, exult. In recent newspaper use, sometimes, To celebrate a jubilee or other joyful occasion. a1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. Such as Almighty God did+replenish+could not but jubilate. 1659 Hammond On Ps. lxxxiv. 3 To cry aloud, vociferate or jubilate. 1721 R. Keith tr. à Kempis' Vall. Lilies xxvii. O ye Cherubim and Seraphim+how fervently, and how excellently do ye sing and jubilate aloud before God. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. i, Hope, jubilating, cries aloud that it will prove a miraculous Brazen Serpent in the Wilderness. 1851 S. Judd Margaret iii. The birds are jubilating in the woods. [OED] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Vocabulary lessons from the Sydney Olympics #6540 09/20/00 08:23 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 J jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah J Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 It's a bit like "How to lie with Statistics" - it seems to be possible that any word we look at had a previous life, so you can always argue on favour of almost any word on those grounds. All you need is a big enough dictionary! Who ever says jubilating these days. Surely it comes from the grand tradition of Colemanballs - I believe that Dan Quayle has a similar reputation in America. Here's a selecton (some from the Private Eye website - they offer £10 for any you send in): 'There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class' (David Coleman at The Montreal Olympics)[I think that this is the original Colemanball] 'And for those of you who watched the last programme (Fanny and Johnny Craddock), I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny's' (David Coleman at the start of Match of The Day) 'To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.' (Ruud Gullit) "Sometimes in football you have to score goals." THIERRY HENRY, Sky Sports (Roger Main) "Quinn, for the umpteenth time, got his first goal of the current campaign." BRIAN MOORE, BBC Match of the Day (Ian Walton) "Michael Vaughan has a long history in the game ahead of him." MARK NICHOLAS, Channel 4 (Anna Lomax) "The Germans only have one player under twenty-two and he's twenty-three." KEVIN KEEGAN, BBC News (Steve Speight) For more - check out this site: http://www.siliconglen.com/jokes/colemanballs.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colemanballs #6541 09/20/00 09:47 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia B Bridget addict Bridget addict B Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia You missed my all-time favourite - I am now jubilating(!) at the chance to add it: 'The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey.' Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colemanballs #6542 09/20/00 10:27 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 J jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah J Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 Bridget Well spotted - what an omission! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colemanballs #6543 09/20/00 02:38 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass football... and cricket...? here come some baseball quotes from Yogi Berra: "It ain't over till it's over." "This is like deja vu all over again." "You can observe a lot just by watchin'." on seeing a Steve McQueen movie: - "He must have made that before he died" "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him." "Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical" Mrs. Lindsay - "You certainly look cool." - Yogi Berra - "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself." "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded." Interviewer - "Why, you're a fatalist !" - Yogi Berra - "You mean I save postage stamps ? Not me." "Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin." "When you come to a fork in the road, take it!" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colemanballs #6544 09/20/00 03:29 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky 'The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey.' Now who's dwelling in the gutter?? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Colemanballs #6545 09/21/00 06:53 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia B Bridget addict Bridget addict B Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 444 Sydney Australia >'The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey.' Now who's dwelling in the gutter??< Just visiting, Jackie! Some of my dearest friends live there... 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