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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 8 of 10 1 2 … 6 7 8 9 10 Re: I may be a camera Faldage #174588 03/12/08 04:13 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 I was (politely) avoiding saying (yet again) that I'd been pipped (see World Serious link in my original), but you fell into my (clever) trap. -joe () friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera tsuwm #174624 03/12/08 11:15 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Originally Posted By: tsuwm I was (politely) avoiding saying (yet again) that I'd been pipped (see World Serious link in my original), but you fell into my (clever) trap. -joe () friday A) I don't always have time to go off to links. I thought yours was a link to the contention that the phrase "World Serious", despite its being used by Pogo, was coined by Damon Runyon. 2) "Pipped"? Do you mean "mantled"? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera Faldage #174625 03/12/08 11:21 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 2) "Pipped"? Do you mean "mantled"? yep; what *was I thinking? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera tsuwm #174633 03/13/08 02:10 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania The Pook old hand The Pook old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,067 Tasmania Originally Posted By: tsuwm 2) "Pipped"? Do you mean "mantled"? yep; what *was I thinking? huh? must be Americanese, I have no idea what you guys are talking about. We use the idiom "pipped at the post" (from horse racing) to mean beaten (to or at something) at the last second. Is that what you meant? Is "mantled" a baseball term? As in Mickey Mantle or something? Last edited by The Pook; 03/13/08 02:11 AM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera The Pook #174637 03/13/08 02:36 AM Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 876 western NY twosleepy old hand twosleepy old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 876 western NY Originally Posted By: The Pook Originally Posted By: tsuwm 2) "Pipped"? Do you mean "mantled"? yep; what *was I thinking? huh? must be Americanese, I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Sorry Pook, but I am definitely American, and I have no idea what they're talking about, either! :0} Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera twosleepy #174640 03/13/08 03:00 AM 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 it's forumese. being mantled relates to posting something and then being totally ignored by subsequent posts, often saying much the same thing, as though you were cloaked in a shroud of invisibility. and yes, this is sometimes even further obfuscated and referred to as being Mickey'd. the other is responding to a post with a really apt and/or witty reply only to discover that (often whilst you were actually composing) someone else pipped you by posting much the same reply -- yes, pipped at the post; exactly! -joe (I expect by now I may have been pipped on this reply) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera Zed #174641 03/13/08 03:01 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Sparteye Pooh-Bah Sparteye Pooh-Bah Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,773 Originally Posted By: Zed And many sources quote Canada as basketball's country of origin. I'm a big hoops fan, and I've never heard this before. All the sources I've ever seen recount that the rules of basketball (I've seen a copy of Dr Naismith's original rules; pretty cool!) were first written, and the game first played, at a YMCA school in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Canadian connection is that James Naismith was born in Canada. The High Holy Days are almost here! W00T! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera tsuwm #174645 03/13/08 03:24 AM Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand olly old hand olly old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand Originally Posted By: tsuwm being mantled relates to posting something and then being totally ignored by subsequent posts Is 'Mantled' allegorical for being put on the shelf? or does it have some obscure reference to Mickey Mantle? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera olly #174646 03/13/08 03:29 AM 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 Originally Posted By: olly Originally Posted By: tsuwm being mantled relates to posting something and then being totally ignored by subsequent posts Is 'Mantled' allegorical for being put on the shelf? or does it have some obscure reference to Mickey Mantle? so, in the event, I wasn't pipped, but I sure have been Mantled!! -joe (mickey) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I may be a camera olly #174658 03/13/08 02:46 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Olly, and all other newbumfuzzledcomers: mantled comes from the term 'wearing a cloak (or mantle!) of invisibility' (from some work of fiction, no doubt). 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