#93623
01/30/2003 2:06 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
It should also be noted that the job of the offensive linemen is primarily defensive and that of the defensive linemen primarily offensive.
|
|
|
#93624
01/30/2003 2:15 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
|
|
|
#93625
01/30/2003 2:17 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
a spectator sports in its own right!
And people complain when it's "misused"!
|
|
|
#93626
01/31/2003 11:10 AM
|
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636 |
It would be more confusing if we all carried little yellow flags in our back pockets? What if I liked blue flags? Or bearded German flags? 
|
|
|
#93627
01/31/2003 11:20 AM
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
|
|
|
#93628
02/03/2003 11:32 AM
|
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 2,636 |
http://www.wmassmastergardeners.org/photos.htmSource: The Collins English Dictionary © 1998 HarperCollins Publishers iris [ars] n., pl. irises or irides [ardiz, r-]. 1. the coloured muscular diaphragm that surrounds and controls the size of the pupil. 2. Also called: fleur-de-lys. any plant of the iridaceous genus Iris, having brightly coloured flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals.
See also {flag2}, {orris1}, {stinking iris}. 3. Also called: rainbow quartz. a form of quartz that reflects light polychromatically from internal fractures. 4. a rare or poetic word for {rainbow}. 5. something resembling a rainbow; iridescence. 6. short for {iris diaphragm}. [from Latin: rainbow, iris (flower), crystal, from Greek] flag 2 [flęg] n. 1. any of various plants that have long swordlike leaves, esp the iris Iris pseudacorus (yellow flag). 2. the leaf of any such plant. See also {sweet flag}. [probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Dutch flag, Danish flęg yellow iris] 
|
|
|
#93629
02/03/2003 1:04 PM
|
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 3,467
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 3,467 |
But you will find that most of the players, writers, and sports broadcasters ow refer to the catching of a ball intended for the player on the other team as a "pick." I assume that's because the pass is picked off.
Every time there's a pick, people seem to go on and on about it and about the person who picked it off, proving that a picker is indeed worth a thousand words.
TEd
|
|
|
#93630
02/03/2003 1:08 PM
|
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 3,467
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 3,467 |
WW:
I unfortunately missed the first quarter's commercials because I was in the emergency room for the second time in less than a week having fingers sutured. When I got home I discovered that Peggy had taken the safety keys out of all my power woodworking tools, declaring that she would decide when I got them back.
Didn't do any good to argue that the first injury was related to a simple knife blade that went astray.
But what I want to know is, "what was the clown commercial about?" I've not even heard of it. The one I missed that was supposedly good was the horses watching the zebra.
TEd
TEd
|
|
|
#93631
02/03/2003 1:34 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 144
member
|
|
member
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 144 |
This was the thing that got me about American Football! I've been to one match in my life and I have vague recollections of it being in New York and involving a team from New Hampshire whose name I can't remember. As to who won - absolutely no idea!
Anyway, the thing I couldn't get my head round was that the entire game was stopped for the commercial breaks. And, as if the boards around the stadium weren't enough, while the tv viewers were getting commercials they paraded cheerleader types around the stadium carrying placards.
How weird is that!?!
|
|
|
#93632
02/03/2003 2:10 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
How weird is that!?!
It's the American Way; that's how weird it is.
Commercial television and American foot[sic]ball grew up together. My own private theory as to why soccer never caught on in the US is that they could never figure out how to schedule in commercial breaks. Soon as they cut to a commercial the only goal of the game would happen.
|
|
|
#93633
02/03/2003 6:52 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
In regards to something I recently posted, to wit:
"And to the mathematician we have learned ".99999999.... = 0"...with some of us
'getting' it and others.........."
May I please state that I was in no way trying to be offensive here to the 'other' group. The matter of infinity has been very interesting to read here on the board. Sure, it's a 'word' board, but our linguistic management of conveying mathematical understanding among ourselves is interesting to many of us here.
However, a member of the board has indicated to me that I have been out-of-line in how I expressed the above, and I would like to set the record straight, for I meant no offense. When I set up the dichotomy between those who agree with the .99999..... = 1 slant of looking at things that Emanuela first showed us (I'm pretty sure it was Emanuela) and those who disagreed with that slant, I in no way meant that those who disagreed were unenlightened or anything along those lines. All I meant was there were those of us who saw and even agreed with Emanuela and those who continued to disagree for good reasons as I read them. The long set of ellipses...................after my statement was indicating that the argument could go on into infinity.
Anyway, my sincere apologies if you believed I was being rude, out-of-line, insulting or anything along those lines. If anything, I was making a quick bit of humor, but often humor is taken for insult.
Again, my apologies,
WW
|
|
|
#93634
02/03/2003 10:16 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 1,624
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 1,624 |
Doubledub, weren't you precise enough for the mathematician, then? I didn't see anything insulting or off-colour or otherwise reprehensible about that post.
- Pfranz
|
|
|
#93635
02/03/2003 10:28 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
Everything's fine, Pfranz. It was just a misunderstanding in phrasing.
I want to go on record again saying that I am thrilled that we do talk about math here on the board. It's one of the purest of languages and it is flat terrific receiving the explanations of those who are in the field to help those of us who are not weave our way through often unclear language. I, for one, have been inspired to put several math courses at the top of my list for study upon retirement from teaching in a few years.
|
|
|
#93636
02/03/2003 11:50 PM
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
WW, you are one of the kindest, gentlest people posting here. But as we all know, this is not a totally adequate medium, although we enjoy it tremendously for what it is. Nuance can be lost, and some folks will overreact to posts [I know from experience, on both ends]. Please don't worry about it any more.  PS I am one of those who don't *get it. [shrug] I'm fine with that.
|
|
|
#93637
02/04/2003 12:05 AM
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
All's well, AnnaS. Thanks for the sentiment.
Me? I'm still caught in the web of going back and forth between the possible meaning of .99999..... = 1 This is a topic I would not dare bring up at the lunch table among colleagues. They would spit me back into the music room. Thank heavens there is this place that we can at least discuss such a revelation--at least for those of us here who like thinking about such considerations.
I said it when I joined the board and I'll say it now:
I am grateful that there is such a group of people as you.
It's a relief to know I don't think like this alone in a void.
|
|
|
#93638
02/04/2003 12:44 AM
|
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 171
member
|
|
member
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 171 |
"...sports broadcasters now refer to the catching of a ball intended for the player on the other team as a "pick."
Pick is a very utilitarian word in American sports. In addition to the "pick off" mentioned above, in basketball we have "setting a pick" (positioning a player so that the defensive player pursuing an offensive team mate runs into the "pick", thus freeing the offensive man for the score)(this can also be done in football to impede a defensive player from covering his assigned man). And in baseball, we also "pick off" base runners, if they take too long a lead from the base. I suspect the hockey players have similar maneuvers, but I don't follow that sport.
|
|
|
#93639
02/04/2003 12:56 AM
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189 |
>forms of "pick"<
In bowling we have "pick-up the spare" or he "picked-up the spare". When the bowler is getting set to for his spare shot we'd say, "okay, now, pick it up!"
|
|
|
#93640
02/04/2003 1:01 AM
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 11,613 |
WW, you are the sweetest thing! [blowing kiss e]
|
|
|
|
|
