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I don't think that's quite the way it's meant, at least not by those who've had a bad game [day]. to me it sounds more like, "yeah, I (or we) had a bad game [day]; <this sport [life]> is like that [hard] -- let's move on."
Could be. I've never heard it uttered by a sports person. I was just guessing.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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It is what it is.
Also seems to have a sense of helplessness about it. We cant do anything about it-ness.
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Maybe y'all have problems with the phrase because it's too generic. Better something like what the guy on Morning Edition this morning, in reference to some specific trial, said, "The evidence is the evidence ... and the proof is the proof."
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“It feels good,” Pierce said. “I’ve been sort of in a slump lately, and hopefully with a game like this I can start playing a little bit better. But it is what it is. It’s going to be a long season. I don’t worry about slumps. I just try to do what I need to do to help this ballclub win.” link - joe (it's all bad) friday
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That purveyor of pessimistic empiricism, John Locke, wrote in 1690 "First, Essence may be taken for the very being of anything, whereby it is what it is." ( link and check out the verse in that footnote). I am just a little bit heartened by the image of a football linesman reading An Essay of Human Understanding in the locker room (NPI). Although, on second thought, they probably default to Heidegger on Being and Wittgenstein on language games.
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congress mulls the issue.. link (note ref. to John Locke) Lake Superior State U. weighs in.. link (note 'truthiness' is no longer banished)
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congress mulls the issue.. (note 'truthiness' is no longer banished) Has Colbert ever admitted that he didn't coin it?
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>Has Colbert ever admitted that he didn't coin [truthiness]?
I doubt it -- that would be out of character!
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